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What Is a ‘Difficulty Bomb’ in the Context of Certain Cryptocurrency Roadmaps?

Code that exponentially increases mining difficulty to force a planned transition from PoW to PoS.
Greeks.Live19.11.25

What Is a ‘Difficulty Bomb’ in the Context of Certain Cryptocurrency Roadmaps?

A difficulty bomb is a piece of code intentionally inserted into a Proof-of-Work blockchain's protocol that causes the mining difficulty to increase exponentially over time. This makes mining progressively harder and eventually impossible.

Its purpose is to force a planned transition from PoW to a PoS consensus mechanism, preventing the community from indefinitely delaying the upgrade.

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