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Topic: does a high difficulty mean it is harder to find a block (Read 505 times)

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what does a high difficulty share mean?
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When you're looking at whattomine, the BT value shows you, on average, how often the network will find a block.  Then you need to consider how often your pool finds a block on the network.  And then, what your share is of your pool's hash rate. 

The difficulty is adjusted so that the overall network hashrate finds a block every BT seconds/minutes on average. 

BT - Block Time
BR - Block Reward
LB - Time of Last Block
legendary
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so it sounds like i need a second set of numbers to check how long it takes for each block and wich ones i can get more blocks of faster?

so when reading a whattomine chart what numbers do i need to figure out how long it takes to mine a block in a specific coin?

You have to compare coins with the same algorithm.  You can not compare btc and ltc as they use different work to find a block and different miners to do that.  Start with coins with the same algorithm and go from there
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For ETH you can use this calculator:

https://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/ethereum-mining-calculator

change the parameters and then you see the results.
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so it sounds like i need a second set of numbers to check how long it takes for each block and wich ones i can get more blocks of faster?

so when reading a whattomine chart what numbers do i need to figure out how long it takes to mine a block in a specific coin?
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In other word yes we can say high difficulty mean it is harder to find a block according your hashrate and a coin you mined. Every coin have different difficulty and you can not equalize each others
legendary
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ICO? Not even once.
Higher difficulty means it takes longer to find a block based on the hashrate.

So you can't compare the diff of DCR/ETH/SIA because mining speeds are also different because they use different hashing algorithms.
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does a high difficulty mean it is harder to find a block
13,501,005.066 dcr
1,747,818,163,014,570.000 ETH
240,894,708,307,099,000.000 SIA

wich one do you find blocks faster at? does a high
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