From 17029be8acab15a00ed2488c9b3868d55c6fe350 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: 64H-1 <64909378+64H-1@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:19:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Change 1.8 ZH/s to 1.8 ZH Wrong dimension. It takes a certain number of hashes to discover a new block on average, not a certain number of hashes per second. --- ch10.asciidoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ch10.asciidoc b/ch10.asciidoc index 7b888e52..48c46673 100644 --- a/ch10.asciidoc +++ b/ch10.asciidoc @@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ At the time of writing, the network is attempting to find a block whose header h 0000000000000000029AB9000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ---- -As you can see, there are a lot of zeros at the beginning of that target, meaning that the acceptable range of hashes is much smaller, hence it's more difficult to find a valid hash. It will take on average more than 1.8 zeta-hashes (thousand billion billion hashes) per second for the network to discover the next block. That seems like an impossible task, but fortunately the network is bringing 3 exa-hashes per second (EH/sec) of processing power to bear, which will be able to find a block in about 10 minutes on average.((("", startref="Cproof10")))((("", startref="proof10"))) +As you can see, there are a lot of zeros at the beginning of that target, meaning that the acceptable range of hashes is much smaller, hence it's more difficult to find a valid hash. It will take on average more than 1.8 zeta-hashes (thousand billion billion hashes) for the network to discover the next block. That seems like an impossible task, but fortunately the network is bringing 3 exa-hashes per second (EH/sec) of processing power to bear, which will be able to find a block in about 10 minutes on average.((("", startref="Cproof10")))((("", startref="proof10"))) [[target_bits]] ==== Target Representation