Re: Proof-of-work difficulty increasing

Date: July 16, 2010

Source: BitcoinTalk Forum

URL: https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/218/

It adjusted to 181.54 a few minutes ago. Typical time to get a block is about a week now.

The difficulty can adjust down as well as up.

The network should be generating close to 6 blocks per hour now.