Instead of adjusting the difficulty every 2016 blocks, could the difficulty of every block be individually set based on the previous 2016 blocks? This would avoid discontinuities in difficulty, but might come with other downsides.
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Possible duplicate of: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/9305/5406, related: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/65868/5406, https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/65093/5406 – Murch Apr 29 '22 at 15:40
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@Murch Definitely a duplicate of the first. Can you mark as a duplicate? – Casey Rodarmor Apr 29 '22 at 19:05
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I could, but the asker can also unilaterally close as duplicate. :) You just need to click "Flag" > "Duplicate" > Paste the link. – Murch Apr 29 '22 at 19:12