j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43.msg3490#msg3490">Quote from: Bitcoiner on July 16, 2010, 02:48:54 PM</a></div><div class="quote"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43.msg3488#msg3488">Quote from: satoshi on July 16, 2010, 02:46:12 PM</a></div><div class="quote">The proof-of-work difficulty is currently 45.38. (see <a href="http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php">http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php</a>) <br/><br/>It's about to increase again in a few hours. It's only been 3-4 days since the last increase, so I expect it will increase by the max of 4 times, or very nearly the max. That would put it at 181.54.<br/><br/>The target time between adjustments is 14 days, 14/3.5 days = 4.0 times increase.<br/></div><br/>Holy....<br/><br/>Satoshi, what happens if the rush dries up for a bit; some of the slashdotters or whoever get tired? Does the difficulty ever go back down?<br/></div>If I'm reading the source code correctly, it should go up and down based on how much CPU is being thrown at it. So if someone rented a super computer to drive up the difficulty for a week, then it vanished, the difficulty should float back down.</div> text/html
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