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The difficulty adjustment is capped at 20% or so, it would take FOREVER to adjust it down sufficiently for our pen and paper speed.
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Robertrobert 2y ago

Wow I never knew about the cap! Always learning something new everyday about #bitcoin .

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Max 2y ago

Actually, it's limited by a factor of 4, here's the code

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/57b34599b2deb179ff1bd97ffeab91ec9f904d85/src%2Fpow.cpp#L57