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What Would Happen If the Bitcoin Network Difficulty Never Adjusted?

If the difficulty never adjusted, the block discovery time would become highly unstable. As the hash rate increased over time, blocks would be found faster and faster, leading to rapid inflation and a breakdown of the 10-minute block schedule.

Conversely, a drop in hash rate would make block discovery too slow, paralyzing the network.

How Does an Increase in Hash Rate Affect the Difficulty Adjustment?
How Does the Time-to-Block-Discovery Relate to the Network’s Difficulty Target?
What Would Happen to the Block Reward If the Difficulty Adjustment Failed to Occur after a Major Hash Rate Increase?
What Is a Hash Rate and How Does It Relate to Network Difficulty?