this week’s GoC “Fun Fact”:

“Every 2016 blocks (~2 weeks), a mechanism known as the #Bitcoin ‘difficulty adjustment’ recalculates the difficulty of mining new blocks, based on the hash rate of the previous 2016 blocks. This ensures a predictable issuance rate of new coins and maintains network security.”

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