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Topic: How To Correctly Phrase How Difficulty Impacts Miner Productivity (Read 113 times)

legendary
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Linux since 1997 RedHat 4
Lets say you earn $100 a day and it costs you $50 a day to earn that.

If your earning drops 10% your profit drops 20% ...

i.e. the cost of earning makes a big difference
jr. member
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I have been saying that a 10% increase in Difficulty results in a 10% reduction in productivity of a miner. I think it is a good approximation. But not accurate when dealing with larger increases.

If Difficulty went up 100%, the productivity of a miner would not go down by 100%, since that would result in zero productivity. It goes down by 50%.

So what is the correct way to explain the percent drop in productivity when a Difficulty goes up by X%

I know, I'm clearly not a math major, but I can understand a formula when it is presented to me   Grin

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