we made 376576 - 376445 = 132 blocks not that bad
https://blockchain.info/blocks
I always love your updates thank you for doing them. I have wondered how do you get the number we should be at? Is it a website your going to or are you doing some math by hand?
1 block every 10 mins is 6 blocks an hour is 144 a day, so start at midnight being 0 blocks for the day and depending what time of day it is you can easily figure out how many blocks "should have been" solved already. At least I'm guessing that's how he does it.
I really enjoy this thread and the updates, too. Watching the diff is just part of the fun of bitcoin. /popcorn
This may be a horribly stupid question but how do you get the 144 number that it should have been? It seems like it would change which each difficulty change. I'm not clicking on how you get the "should be" number.
And thank you for taking time to help me understand it, I'm just wanting to be able to calculate it myself.
we made 376576 - 376445 = 132 blocks not that bad
Check the date of block 376445; it's 2015-09-28 00:03:37 (First block of the day)
https://blockchain.info/block/00000000000000000c91485e60e4bbf4143c7993c7d53c6e36493dde7b1b99ca
Check the date of block 376576; it's 2015-09-28 22:19:20 (Last block at the given time)
https://blockchain.info/block/00000000000000000b304a89e75f6174f2aeb551fee3338416f020e6fff9e096
Approximately 22 hours and 20 minutes passed between those blocks.
Now; Multiply the hours by 6 and divide the minutes by 10 then calculate the sum: 22*6 + 20/10 = 134 blocks should be found. (That's average, proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto)
But; Check the block count by calculating the difference between block heights: 376576 - 376445 = 132
That shows 2 blocks away from the average.