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      Phlosen Regular Member last edited by

      I understand the concept of the Blockchain. I understand the concept of POW. What i am not sure about is the real meaning of difficulty on the Bits. From what I gather: higher dif->more leading 0 in the Hash. How many 0 does a Hash has to have with a Dif of let’s say 100. Certainly not 100 Zeros, right?

      There are days when you lose and there are days when others win

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        wrapper Moderators last edited by wrapper

        Dfficulty : Is just how likely the answer of the POW equation is to be found, more 0’s means there is less space to search for the answer in, so it is Less Difficulty (or it’s easier equation to solve).

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          Phlosen Regular Member @wrapper last edited by

          @wrapper
          Thanks for the reply. That’s how far i understood it. So this means that there is a scale from 1-X? Is there a maximum difficulty? How difficult would it be to have a Hash with ALL 0?

          There are days when you lose and there are days when others win

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            AcidD Moderators last edited by

            This link explains it ;-) http://bfy.tw/FaJ4

            Difficulty is a measure of how difficult it is to find a hash below a given target.

            The Feathercoin network has a global block difficulty. Valid blocks must have a hash below this target. Mining pools also have a pool-specific share difficulty setting a lower limit for shares.

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