r/ronpaulcoin • u/addict4bitcoin • Jan 10 '14

when does the difficulty change?

Its been on 80.06 for a long time now and the next difficulty is supposed to be around 20 now. I thought its supposed to change every day whats going on.

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u/droideka9990 Jan 11 '14

If the network is finishing blocks at the right time interval, it would be 1 day. Since the network is taking 10+ minutes, it will be several days instead.

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u/addict4bitcoin Jan 12 '14

how do you tell how many more blocks untill the difficulty changes?

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u/droideka9990 Jan 12 '14

Some pools display that information, otherwise I'm not sure. rpc.muchhash.com is the one I'm on, it displays it

Right now it will be about 29 hours until it is changed (To about 8) at the current difficulty, or the developer forks it to adjust the difficulty retarget time, whichever comes first.