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How Does the ‘Mining Difficulty’ Adjust in PoW?

Mining difficulty is an automatically adjusted parameter that determines how hard it is to find a valid block hash. It is periodically adjusted by the protocol to ensure that the average block production time remains constant, regardless of the total computational power (hash rate) of the network.

This keeps the block issuance rate predictable.

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