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What Is the Formula Used to Calculate the Network Difficulty Adjustment?

New Difficulty = Old Difficulty (Expected Time / Actual Time) for the last 2,016 blocks.
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What Is the Formula Used to Calculate the Network Difficulty Adjustment?

The Bitcoin network difficulty is adjusted by comparing the actual time it took to mine the last 2,016 blocks to the expected time (2,016 blocks 10 minutes/block = 2 weeks). The new difficulty is calculated by multiplying the current difficulty by the ratio of the expected time to the actual time.

This ratio determines the magnitude of the adjustment.

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