<p>This is approximately correct. You will actually get a bit more than one block per hour because so long as hashing power is increasing, the difficulty will lag behind the actual computing power.</p>

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2013-07-02T18:28:17.963Z
2013-07-02T18:28:17.963Z
David Schwartz
<p>Is it correct to say that, since the difficulty will keep the block generation rate at 6 per hour on average, that with one-sixth of the network computing power, I will get one block per hour, on average?</p>

<p>Put differently, can I express my expected average block discovery rate to always be 6 per hour multiplied by the fraction of total computing power I own?</p>

<p>I'm asking this because I keep getting confused by the profitability calculations that rest on the difficulty, which is a totally opaque value for me, even though I know in theory what it means. I would like to employ some measure that I can use more intuitively.</p>

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2013-07-04T05:07:45.227Z
possible duplicate of [How much Bitcoin will I mine right now with hardware X?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/118/how-much-bitcoin-will-i-mine-right-now-with-hardware-x)
Stephen Gornick
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How does the block discovery rate of a mining rig relate to the overall computing power of the network?
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# How does the block discovery rate of a mining rig relate to the overall computing power of the network?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-07-02)

Is it correct to say that, since the difficulty will keep the block generation rate at 6 per hour on average, that with one-sixth of the network computing power, I will get one block per hour, on average?

Put differently, can I express my expected average block discovery rate to always be 6 per hour multiplied by the fraction of total computing power I own?

I'm asking this because I keep getting confused by the profitability calculations that rest on the difficulty, which is a totally opaque value for me, even though I know in theory what it means. I would like to employ some measure that I can use more intuitively.

**Tags:** difficulty, mining-technical-details

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: possible duplicate of [How much Bitcoin will I mine right now with hardware X?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/118/how-much-bitcoin-will-i-mine-right-now-with-hardware-x)  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2013-07-02. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

This is approximately correct. You will actually get a bit more than one block per hour because so long as hashing power is increasing, the difficulty will lag behind the actual computing power.


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