Mining Difficulty Adjustment

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A mining difficulty adjustment is a feature of the Bitcoin network that adjusts the difficulty of mining tasks approximately every two weeks (or every 2016 blocks) to maintain a constant block time of about 10 minutes. This ensures the network’s stability and security as the hash rate changes.

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