The requirement a hash must meet corresponds to the difficulty. … A miner can, in theory, get lucky and obtain a valid hash for a given block on the first try. However, over time, higher difficulty means that miners must plug through more nonces per block on average .
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Ethereum difficulty (or network difficulty) is a key value for every cryptocurrency. Ethereum Network difficulty is the difficulty of a problem that miners must solve to find a block . The more miners are mining Ethereum the more difficult it is to find the block to be rewarded.
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The difficulty is automatically adjusted based the amount of computational power on the network, or hashrate, to keep the time it takes to mine a block roughly stable at 10 minutes . The higher the hashrate, the higher the difficulty, and vice versa.
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