All Questions
Tagged with difficulty-algorithm mining-theory
2 questions
4
votes
3
answers
8k
views
How many hashes are needed to solve a Monero block of difficulty 1?
For example, for ZCash, it takes, on average, 8192 hashes (aka "solutions") to solve a block of difficulty 1. That number is determined in the source code by a 256-bit target threshold (...
- 41
2
votes
1
answer
155
views
Keep mining to replace an already published block
If two miners find a valid block for the same height, the block with the largest difficulty is selected and the other one is rejected by the network (orphaned), regardless of their discovery timestamp....
- 2,218