Difficulty Target
Mining
6 references
A threshold that a block hash must be below (or equal to) to be valid in PoW. Lower targets correspond to higher difficulty.
Appears in 6 whitepaper sections
$ETH
Ethereum
Mining
...ry block, treated as a 256-bit number, must be less than a dynamically adjusted target, which as of the time of this writing is approximately 2^187. The purpose of th...
Blockchain and Mining
...cks, incentivizing miners to reference them. This allows Ethereum to maintain a target block time of approximately 12 seconds while preserving network security.
The ...
$DOGE
Dogecoin
Technical Specifications
...Bitcoin's purely computation-intensive SHA-256 algorithm.
The block generation target for Dogecoin is one minute, making it significantly faster than both Bitcoin (t...
Network Architecture
...d through the Scrypt hashing algorithm, produces a hash value below the current difficulty target. The miner who finds a valid hash first broadcasts the new block to the network...
$BCH
Bitcoin Cash
Technical Specifications
... model, the secp256k1 elliptic curve for digital signatures, and the ten-minute target block interval. However, several key modifications differentiate it from the Bi...
Network Architecture
... Cash's difficulty adjustment algorithm ensures that blocks are produced at the target ten-minute interval regardless of the absolute hash rate level.
The difficulty...