Questions concerned with the expected or actual time between the discovery of two blocks.
Questions concerned with the expected or actual time between the discovery of two blocks. For questions about block.timestamp use timestamp.
Questions tagged [block-interval]
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What happened to the average blocktime during this period?
What happened to Ethereums blocktime from April to October last year (2017)?
In the whitepaper, Vitalik said the difficulty should adjust at a maximum rate of 0.1% per block (around 100% per 12 hours). Is this not the case nowadays?
Edward Haigh
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What explains the relative infrequency of block time differences coinciding with EIP-100 thresholds?
When I plot a histogram of timestamp differences between consecutive blocks, I see some irregularities around the EIP-100 thresholds. Because the adjustment factor includes integer division by 9, there are discontinuities in difficulty calculation…
Shane
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