While miners have been able to abuse
the mining difficulty algorithm on demand, most miners tend to keep their coins.
A lot has been said about the Bitcoin Cash
mining difficulty algorithm.
Not exact matches
The main points of differences in Bitcoin Gold which catch our interest are: the Proof of Work (PoW)
algorithm,
mining hardware,
difficulty adjustment, and replay protection.
While it follows the same
mining algorithm as Bitcoin, BCC uses a different unilateral
Difficulty adjustment mechanism, which is concerning.
This includes a new
difficulty re-adjustment
algorithm named «DigiShield» that adjusts the
mining difficulty each time a block is found — instead of once every two weeks.
Bitcoin Unlimited chief scientist Peter Rizun highlighted another potential scenario:
Mining bitcoin cash blocks could be more profitable to mine than bitcoin during short periods that have to do with its
difficulty algorithm, contingent on its price increasing.
The Bitcoin Cash network recently had a successful hard fork which changed the protocol's
difficulty algorithm, and has kept
mining profitability more consistent ever since the implementation.
The last Bitcoin Cash network upgrade back in November of 2017 had zero complications, and the
Difficulty Algorithm Adjustment (DAA) consensus changes have kept the mining difficulty c
Difficulty Algorithm Adjustment (DAA) consensus changes have kept the
mining difficulty c
difficulty consistent.
Furthermore, Credits protects against multi-
mining and jump -
mining pools through the implementation of Gulden's latest
difficulty retargeting
algorithm, DELTA — the most advanced retargeting
algorithm available today.
This is partially a result of the volatile
mining difficulty for Bitcoin Cash when it first went live using the Emergency Difficulty Adjustment (EDA)
difficulty for Bitcoin Cash when it first went live using the Emergency
Difficulty Adjustment (EDA)
Difficulty Adjustment (EDA)
algorithm.
A few months later, in November 2017, Bitcoin Cash began using a new
difficulty adjustment
algorithm (DAA) to better manage the
mining difficulty and the volatile hashpower situation stabilized.
The current system of bitcoin
algorithm is based upon increase and decrease the
difficulty for
mining, which results in difficult for finding current correct hash for blocks.
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