Mining Difficulty - Simply Explained

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  • Mining Bitcoin or Ethereum is a hard task for your computer. But why? And what does the difficulty have to do with the security of blockchains? Learn all about blockchains, consensus algorithms and why difficulty adjustment is crucial to keep everything operating at an optimal (and safe) level.
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    @guitarheroprince123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +103

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  • @aakashsonkusare69
    @aakashsonkusare69 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mining summed up in first 10 seconds, wow how easy was that and yet I dint come across such short and accurate definition in so many years!!!!!!!

  • @jenj6776
    @jenj6776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hate myself that I just found you today! :((((((((
    You are the best at explaining things in the simplest language my brain can decipher!

  • @hadrianos1
    @hadrianos1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Outstandingly good explanation!!

  • @Pedro-lp2kj
    @Pedro-lp2kj 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you !!! great explanation

  • @mavhunter8753
    @mavhunter8753 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I can't wait until you drop the video explaining the solutions for the data mining centralization problem!

    • @noladick9863
      @noladick9863 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @noladick9863
      @noladick9863 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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      @CrypTsoo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @shubhampawar2207
    @shubhampawar2207 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Explanation!!

  • @sudarshanmg2604
    @sudarshanmg2604 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks this explained a lot of queries

  • @tamzake
    @tamzake 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great this was useful, thank you

  • @kvelez
    @kvelez ปีที่แล้ว

    Great explanation.

  • @yuliyacher67
    @yuliyacher67 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you!

  • @realdvgarg
    @realdvgarg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video!

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    @indigo0086 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'd love to see what concepts of Bitcoin are old ideas reimplemented and which ones are completely unique

  • @tjmooney4181
    @tjmooney4181 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you 👍

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    @ezioauditore9585 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hey man, your videos are good. Mind making a video on Intle SGX and on SMPC? Would really appreciate that.

  • @moayadbassam
    @moayadbassam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    would be interesting to see a video about possible solutions.

  • @JayTailor45
    @JayTailor45 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nicely explained. Thanks ;)

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      @charlesandrew5758 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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      @charlesandrew5758 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @flopybouncer
    @flopybouncer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thanks! :)

  • @TheHarpanOnly
    @TheHarpanOnly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for the explanation. Could you please explain how miner hashrate will correlate to probability of get a coin. Do we need to upgrade our miner hashrate following bitcoin network hashrate?

  • @VirtualBacon
    @VirtualBacon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    awesome!

  • @gilquadrosflores3571
    @gilquadrosflores3571 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks

  • @aakashshekhawat
    @aakashshekhawat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    can you please explain how does proof of work works

  • @manishpingale6558
    @manishpingale6558 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @morishogo144
    @morishogo144 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    So the next change in mining difficulty is in 1 day 14 hours. And it will be reduced from 23 to 20. From 11,6 min average targeting 10mins block time. Do you think the price of the bitcoin because of this will go up or down?

  • @syedhabeebuddin101
    @syedhabeebuddin101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Satoshi: that mistake is due to for loop and zero based indexing.

  • @GamingwithKentuckianJD
    @GamingwithKentuckianJD ปีที่แล้ว

    love the explanation but i feel i still have question. maybe i missed it in the video as i am still new. I am looking at mining 3 different coins when eth stops mining. One has a mining difficulty of 335.67 G, 78.08 M and 55.6m So i should mine the 55.56 M because it is less difficult?

  • @HalvingReport
    @HalvingReport ปีที่แล้ว

    Does the 2016th block get accounted for in the next block?

  • @carousel9325
    @carousel9325 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    PLease explain eth gas limit, gas supply etc

  • @mattcrouch9348
    @mattcrouch9348 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wait. Satoshi really made an off-by-one error in the bitcoin core system?
    Is there a reason it just looks at 2015 blocks, or is it an array indexing oversight?

  • @PierreFikota
    @PierreFikota 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hy I have a question.
    Is it better for a miner to drive with normal diff or is a higher diff better?
    I understood that it depends on more ( coin, time, global diff, global hashrate, poolhashrate, my hashrate and more )
    What I have not understood is how I find my best diff.
    For example :
    Currently mine me with a scrypt Asic about 400Mh/s
    Wiki says the best diff is 32678
    If I do this for an hour I get one or two small wins, but I set the miner to 8192
    I get 20 - 25 finds in one hour with a very small reward Al's before but much more often and all in all it makes a difference.
    But then again miningrigrentals and some others say that the diff should be at least 10x higher but then I don't find anything.
    I would be very grateful for any useful information about this.
    Lg and happy Mining

  • @swedo12
    @swedo12 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What happens to difficulty adjustment in a free energy environment? More miners, mining cheaper. I assume adjustment goes up and makes 10 min average block time still. But could an attack be easier in this environment?

  • @RichardBuckerCodes
    @RichardBuckerCodes 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How is the tuning accomplished or what/how are they simply generating heat to waste time? How did China's decision to bull out change the difficulty? Who benefited? for how long? For how much?

  • @hamza-325
    @hamza-325 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Satoshi Nakamoto and 6 other bitcoin developers disliked this video (because it criticizes the mining process and exposes a bug 😂)

  •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Thanks for the great explanation as always. I thought I knew everything about mining reward, but I was wrong. Thanks for adding the rookie mistake detail in the end. Turns out everyone can add bugs. 😜 By the way, could that bug be fixed after the fact? Who or what sets the difficulty? And how? Does it create a new block that defines the difficulty?

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      @andreabogle5410 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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      @andreabogle5410 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @disrael2101
      @disrael2101 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      have u figured it out already if it can be fixed and if so how and who decided it

    •  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@disrael2101 No I haven’t, unfortunately.

  • @Ummegg
    @Ummegg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    big mining setups pretty much killed most mining in my eyes !

  • @ChaceBonanno
    @ChaceBonanno 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Scrypt proof of work resolves the issue of centralization

  • @natrah01475
    @natrah01475 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't understand the bug part. 2016 100 days? Can someone enlighten me

  • @random2059
    @random2059 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    dont you think this a waste of electrical energy .....when some already checked a possibility that update is unknown to other....and they are just spending computational power blindly
    please correct me if i am wrong

    • @drstoneftw6084
      @drstoneftw6084 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      that's why ethereum going from PoW to Proof of Stake :)

  • @aakashsonkusare69
    @aakashsonkusare69 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    But how will last blacok take 100 days? You said no matter what one block will always take 10 mins irrespective of no of miners. Please reply.

    • @dizzyrocket2000
      @dizzyrocket2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Imagine this: After block 2015 was created something happened where a huge number of miners suddenly disappeared from the network. This would leave a much smaller number of miners to mine block 2016. Now there are fewer miners but the mining difficulty remains the same as it was for the previous 2015 blocks, so this means it will take this smaller number of miners much longer to solve the hash

    • @disrael2101
      @disrael2101 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@dizzyrocket2000 what about the bug, can it be fixed and if so how one do it like where the source code files are stored and who owns it?

  • @ImAFlyingPancake
    @ImAFlyingPancake 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The longest chain is not the criteria anymore. It's been changed to the chain with the highest cumulative work.

    • @guitarheroprince123
      @guitarheroprince123 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      explain more pls?

    • @ImAFlyingPancake
      @ImAFlyingPancake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@guitarheroprince123 If the client has to choose between two chains. It will choose the chain with the highest cumulative difficulty. So for example if there is a chain with three blocks, each having 200 of difficulty, and another chain with five blocks having each 30 of difficulty, the first one will be picked.
      It can prevent attackers to mine a longer chain with artificially lower difficulty in order to get the longest one and to be accepted by the network as the "true" chain.
      Also, it's very unlikely that two concurrent chains have the same cumulative difficulty. It's so unlikely that the problem will probably never happen. Having two chains of the same length though, is much more likely.

    • @disrael2101
      @disrael2101 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      what about the bug, can it be fixed and if so how one do it like where the source code files are stored and who owns it?

  • @MusicInMae
    @MusicInMae 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    U don't have a video strictly explaining a node

  • @donskitv8475
    @donskitv8475 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can ask you i ask you something,,,,!!!?

  • @donskitv8475
    @donskitv8475 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can i ask you something,,?

  • @sarbajitg
    @sarbajitg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please share the link of the solution video talked at 4:28

  • @kornbread5359
    @kornbread5359 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I dont see the point in changing the difficulty... why does it have to be 10 minutes. What advantage does that give? Why make it more difficult and wasteful if there is nothing to gain from it. And what IS difficulty? More numbers? Bigger numbers?

    • @kornbread5359
      @kornbread5359 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      If everyone is running RANDOM calculations then that is horribly inefficient. The blockchain is not random right...? Each key is mathematically related to the next? Meaning that all keys are related to eachother and that there is an equation that can be used to figure them out?

    • @kornbread5359
      @kornbread5359 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      If somebody could solve the whole blockchain instantly or faster then why should they be barred from doing so? As long as the answer is correct, then what is the harm, it would save insane amounts of electricity and time for the computers to do something more useful

    • @sameekhan7239
      @sameekhan7239 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It allows for better syncing of nodes as the blocks can relayed better and reduce bandwidth requirements.
      Since bitcoin is more full nodes heavy smaller blocks and 10 minute block time makes it easier to run.. Maybe 10 minutes is to much but it does allow a much more secure environment.

    • @disrael2101
      @disrael2101 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sameekhan7239 what about the bug, can it be fixed and if so how one do it like where the source code files are stored and who owns it?

  • @TheBitcoinExperience
    @TheBitcoinExperience 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well, miners are incentivise to stay honest and not attack the network. If they do, all the capital they invested in their operations along with the Bitcoin they produce will become worthless.

  • @YourwelcomeWelcome
    @YourwelcomeWelcome หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bitcoin is currently at $777,567.89

  • @CrypTsoo
    @CrypTsoo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Unbelievable bitcoin could be cracked only on that block every 2weeks 😅 but it can be used to manipulate I mean , I see the first official possible problem of bitcoin here my god.. every 2016th block could happen something bad idk what but I see one possible knife

  • @YourwelcomeWelcome
    @YourwelcomeWelcome หลายเดือนก่อน

    Always mining always making huge amounts of money.

  • @repasiv
    @repasiv 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am really shocked how many people don't know this. This is the reason why a hardware investment will hardly be profitable and the energy consumption is skyrocketing. As brilliant bitcoin is but people are just greedy and stupid.

  • @silvernaturemusic599
    @silvernaturemusic599 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm on hunt to find out who Satoshi Nakamoto is.

    • @eddie947
      @eddie947 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      A lot of people are too lol
      Good luck

  • @motionislife4879
    @motionislife4879 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    1 off error is done by almost every programmer

  • @TykiRose
    @TykiRose 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude this shit still makes zero sense to me

    • @eddie947
      @eddie947 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think I do. I mine ethereum and some days I notice I can mine as low as .002 and as high as .007 coins a day. That is my profit. So basically some days I can mine more coins than other days. The difficulty can cause this fluctuating in profits.

  • @aerowise1321
    @aerowise1321 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shut up! This is insane!

  • @mariabridge8497
    @mariabridge8497 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why would anyone invest in this crap. It’s a game