bip-325: document signet minimum difficulty #2056
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jonatack
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This was implicit in the genesis block's nbits value, but better to be clearer.
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| The minimum difficulty for blocks in signet is approximately | ||
| 0.0011265, corresponding to a maximum target of | ||
| <code>00000377ae000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</code> | ||
| which is represented by an nBits value of <code>0x1e0377ae</code>. |
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Verified the maximum target and nBits values correspond to those for signet in src/kernel/chainparams.cpp in Bitcoin Core:
consensus.powLimit = uint256{"00000377ae000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"};
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genesis = CreateGenesisBlock(1598918400, 52613770, 0x1e0377ae, 1, 50 * COIN);Edit: verified that these values yield a minimum difficulty of ~0.0011265.
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This was implicit in the genesis block's nbits value, but better to be clearer.