Bitcoin Target: Understanding targets and difficulty

Two9A

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Quote from: BurtW on November 09, 2013, 11:31:13 AM

Cool little site. Where are you getting the random (red) numbers?

They're generated in the browser, and are just random numbers to show as a kind of visual aid.

When I had the idea for the site, I was watching an episode of some TV show where they had a computer "churning" through random combinations of something or other; seemed like a good inspiration Grin

BurtW

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Quote from: Two9A on November 09, 2013, 11:26:57 AM

So I'm relatively new to Bitcoin, and I was quite confused as to what a miner actually does, what the difficulty relates to, and so on. I decided to put a quick site together to demonstrate what is meant by the "target", and how a block is regarded as "found" relative to the target.

I called it the obvious, Bitcoin Target: http://btctarget.com/

Check it out, let me know what you think, and particularly let me know if it breaks or falls over. Thanks!