<p>Instead of adjusting the difficulty every 2016 blocks, could the difficulty of every block be individually set based on the previous 2016 blocks? This would avoid discontinuities in difficulty, but might come with other downsides.</p>

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Possible duplicate of: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/9305/5406, related: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/65868/5406, https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/65093/5406
Murch
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2022-04-29T19:05:12.997Z
@Murch Definitely a duplicate of the first. Can you mark as a duplicate?
Casey Rodarmor
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I could, but the asker can also unilaterally close as duplicate. :) You just need to click "Flag" > "Duplicate" > Paste the link.
Murch
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Could bitcoin employ a continuously varying difficulty adjustment algorithm?
Casey Rodarmor
# Could bitcoin employ a continuously varying difficulty adjustment algorithm?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-04-29)

Instead of adjusting the difficulty every 2016 blocks, could the difficulty of every block be individually set based on the previous 2016 blocks? This would avoid discontinuities in difficulty, but might come with other downsides.

**Tags:** mining-theory, difficulty-retargetting

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Possible duplicate of: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/9305/5406, related: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/65868/5406, https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/65093/5406  
> **username_0**: @username_1 Definitely a duplicate of the first. Can you mark as a duplicate?  
> **username_1**: I could, but the asker can also unilaterally close as duplicate. :) You just need to click "Flag" > "Duplicate" > Paste the link.  

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