Topic: how hard bitcoin mining get with a one zero increase in difficulty (Read 1174 times)

Yes, that was my question. I confused difficulty with target.
Thanks again BurtW!!

I found a nice video that maybe will help others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QxOUwG8a2Y

Is this your question?

For example if the target was:

0x000000000003FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

And it is changed to:

0x000000000001FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

I believe this will double the difficulty and will double the hash rate needed to maintain an average of 6 blocks solved per hour.

Thanks a lot philipma1957 and BurtW!! =D

First off, you are confusing difficulty and target.

Target defines "how many zeros" you need.  Difficulty is defined as the (highest possible target) / (the current target)

Also the target is not just shifting in a one or out a one as you seem to imply.  A target looks like this:

0x00000000000404CB000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Any value less than or equal to the target is an acceptable hash.

The highest possible target with the lowest possible difficulty (the difficulty 1 target) is defined as:

0x00000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

So maybe rephrase your question in terms of target?

look here

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

Difficulty History

Date   Difficulty   Change   Hash Rate
Feb 18 2017   440,779,902,287   4.41%   3,155,225,442 GH/s
Feb 04 2017   422,170,566,884   7.43%   3,022,014,630 GH/s
Jan 22 2017   392,963,262,344   16.64%   2,812,940,600 GH/s
Jan 10 2017   336,899,932,796   6.05%   2,411,623,656 GH/s
Dec 28 2016   317,688,400,354   2.43%   2,274,102,150 GH/s
Dec 15 2016   310,153,855,703   8.16%   2,220,167,778 GH/s
Dec 02 2016   286,765,766,821   1.76%   2,052,749,317 GH/s
Nov 18 2016   281,800,917,193   10.68%   2,017,209,539 GH/s
Nov 05 2016   254,620,187,304   0.40%   1,822,642,296 GH/s
Oct 22 2016   253,618,246,641   -1.90%   1,815,470,125 GH/s
Oct 08 2016   258,522,748,405   7.17%   1,850,577,916 GH/s
Sep 25 2016   241,227,200,230   6.82%   1,726,771,560 GH/s
Sep 12 2016   225,832,872,179   2.30%   1,616,574,667 GH/s
Aug 29 2016   220,755,908,330   1.56%   1,580,232,344 GH/s
Aug 15 2016   217,375,482,757   7.67%   1,556,034,316 GH/s
Aug 02 2016   201,893,210,853   -5.43%   1,445,207,896 GH/s
Jul 18 2016   213,492,501,108   0.04%   1,528,238,850 GH/s
Jul 04 2016   213,398,925,331   1.88%   1,527,569,009 GH/s
Jun 21 2016   209,453,158,595   6.83%   1,499,324,110 GH/s
Jun 08 2016   196,061,423,940   -1.63%   1,403,462,340 GH/s
May 24 2016   199,312,067,531   2.60%   1,426,731,353 GH/s
May 11 2016   194,254,820,283   8.73%   1,390,530,167 GH/s
Apr 28 2016   178,659,257,773   -0.01%   1,278,892,782 GH/s
Apr 14 2016   178,678,307,672   7.09%   1,279,029,147 GH/s
Apr 01 2016   166,851,513,283   0.82%   1,194,369,655 GH/s
Mar 18 2016   165,496,835,118   4.46%   1,184,672,491 GH/s
Mar 04 2016   158,427,203,767   -3.10%   1,134,066,098 GH/s


Feb 19 2016   163,491,654,909   13.44%   1,170,318,852 GH/s
Feb 07 2016   144,116,447,847   20.06%   1,031,625,717 GH/s  120 to 163 is a 36%
Jan 26 2016   120,033,340,651   5.89%   859,232,121 GH/s   jump in ¾ of a month

Jan 13 2016   113,354,299,801   9.12%   811,421,684 GH/s
Dec 31 2015   103,880,340,815   11.16%   743,604,444 GH/s
Dec 18 2015   93,448,670,796   18.14%   668,931,642 GH/s
Dec 06 2015   79,102,380,900   8.77%   566,236,898 GH/s
Nov 24 2015   72,722,780,643   10.44%   520,569,941 GH/s
Nov 11 2015   65,848,255,180   5.77%   471,360,171 GH/s



Oct 29 2015   62,253,982,450   2.25%   445,631,364 GH/s
Oct 15 2015   60,883,825,480   0.12%   435,823,399 GH/s
Oct 01 2015   60,813,224,039   2.49%   435,318,014 GH/s
Sep 17 2015   59,335,351,234   4.17%   424,738,988 GH/s
Sep 04 2015   56,957,648,455   4.98%   407,718,729 GH/s
Aug 22 2015   54,256,630,328   2.95%   388,384,088 GH/s
Aug 08 2015   52,699,842,409   0.81%   377,240,166 GH/s
Jul 25 2015   52,278,304,846   2.35%   374,222,683 GH/s
Jul 11 2015   51,076,366,303   3.39%   365,618,871 GH/s
Jun 28 2015   49,402,014,931   -0.58%   353,633,397 GH/s
Jun 14 2015   49,692,386,355   4.42%   355,711,957 GH/s
May 31 2015   47,589,591,154   -2.50%   340,659,563 GH/s
May 17 2015   48,807,487,245   2.44%   349,377,603 GH/s


5 ½ months  we went from 48 to 62  that is a 29% jump



so 29% in 165 days was slower growth

and 36% in 21 days was pretty fast growth.

difficulty can go  from 440,000,000,000 to 4,440,000,000,000  and then 44,400,000,000,000

and then more.

My guess is we are headed for flatness and slower diff growth  from this april to this sept

Hi,

Say difficulty requires 9 leading zeros, then how much more processing(cycles) would be needed if it increase to 10 leading zeros?
How hard does it get?

Thanks a lot!!! =)