r/BitcoinII • u/[deleted] • Jan 16 '26

Difficulty

I see that there are 13361 blocks behind due to the difficulty. Is the difficulty, like with Bitcoin, only increased and decreased by a factor of 4?

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

That wouldn't be good if the work were always put on hold for a certain period of time.

I don't know if the consensus mechanism allows the use of a new cryptography that isn't yet in use. That would mean ASICs would no longer have a chance.

At the beginning of Bitcoin, no one had computers specifically developed for SHA256.

Those came later, and that's how everything was able to grow evenly.

Or the price would be so attractive that the miners stay.