i should be smarter than to argue with bitcoin maximalists about the energy intensity of bitcoin, but seriously, technologists, the industry has a problem with energy usage *even at this scale*. if it 'actually' scaled to replace everything it would be catastrophic.
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The mining difficulty adjusts every 2016 blocks to reset blocks to an expected 10 minute interval. This is basically a control loop, it's exclusively based on the prior difficulty and the time the previous period's 2016 blocks took to get mined. 1/
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