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What exactly does "difficulty" mean?

Open fingolfin0 opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

This page says that difficulty "is the probability of ..." But this is complete nonsense, because the probability cannot be more than one. Help me figure out what is a "difficulty" in Kaspa?

I'm trying to find out the difficulty using kaspactl GetBlockDagInfo. There is a formula that says that the expected number of hashes we need to calculate to find a block with difficulty D is D * 2**48 / 0xffff. This formula works for Bitcoin, but gives absurd results for Kaspa.

fingolfin0 avatar Dec 01 '23 20:12 fingolfin0