jM <div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43.msg424#msg424">Quote from: Sabunir on February 21, 2010, 04:58:44 PM</a></div><div class="quote">How do you adjust this difficulty, anyway? (Administrating a decentralized system?) And what would prevent an attacker from setting the difficulty very low or very high to interfere with the system?<br/></div>My understanding is that every Bitcoin client has the same algorithm (formula) built into it to automatically adjust the difficulty every so many blocks. Not only that, but I think that Bitcoin will not accept blocks generated at a different difficulty, so if a modified Bitcoin client tried to send out more easily generated blocks, all the authentic clients would reject the fake blocks.</div>
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