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Month: January 2020

January 15, 2020
What is Ethereum’s Ice Age? The Difficulty Bomb Explained

What is Ethereum’s Ice Age? The Difficulty Bomb Explained

Difficulty bomb? Ice Age? Huh? The difficulty bomb refers to mechanism built into Ethereum that increases the difficulty of mining over time. Once activated, the difficulty bomb slows down block times ushering in what is sometimes referred to as Ethereum’s Ice Age. During this time, blocks become more and more difficult to mine, increasingly slowing …

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