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Would be even better to turn it into a doxygen comment and move it outside the function. E.g.
/** Returns a floating point number that is a multiple of the main net minimum
* difficulty (4295032833 hashes).
*/
double GetDifficulty(const CBlockIndex* blockindex)
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Gladly!
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utACK, but prefer "original mainnet difficulty" in case we bump up the minimum someday. |
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We wouldn't update the constants if the value they're based on changed? |
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utACK |
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@jtimon Makes sense. Updated. |
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utACK dc222f8
dc222f8 Trivial: Rephrase the definition of difficulty in the code. (Karl-Johan Alm)
dc222f8 Trivial: Rephrase the definition of difficulty in the code. (Karl-Johan Alm)
* Merge bitcoin#9815: Trivial: use EXIT_ codes instead of magic numbers a87d02a use EXIT_ codes instead of magic numbers (Marko Bencun) * Merge bitcoin#9801: Removed redundant parameter from mempool.PrioritiseTransaction eaea2bb Removed redundant parameter from mempool.PrioritiseTransaction (gubatron) * remove extra parameter (see 3a3745bb) in dash specific code * Merge bitcoin#9819: Remove harmless read of unusued priority estimates bc8fd12 Remove harmless read of unusued priority estimates (Alex Morcos) * Merge bitcoin#9766: Add --exclude option to rpc-tests.py c578408 Add exclude option to rpc-tests.py (John Newbery) * Merge bitcoin#9577: Fix docstrings in qa tests 3f95a80 Fix docstrings in qa tests (John Newbery) * Merge bitcoin#9823: qa: Set correct path for binaries in rpc tests 3333ad0 qa: Set correct path for binaries in rpc tests (MarcoFalke) * Merge bitcoin#9833: Trivial: fix comments referencing AppInit2 ef9f495 Trivial: fix comments referencing AppInit2 (Marko Bencun) * Merge bitcoin#9612: [trivial] Rephrase the definition of difficulty. dc222f8 Trivial: Rephrase the definition of difficulty in the code. (Karl-Johan Alm) * Merge bitcoin#9847: Extra test vector for BIP32 30aedcb BIP32 extra test vector (Pieter Wuille) * Merge bitcoin#9839: [qa] Make import-rescan.py watchonly check reliable 864890a [qa] Make import-rescan.py watchonly check reliable (Russell Yanofsky) Tree-SHA512: ea0e2b1d4fc8f35174c3d575fb751b428daf6ad3aa944fad4e3ddcc9195e4f17051473acabc54203b1d27cca64cf911b737ab92e986c40ef384410652e2dbea1 * Change back file params
Difficulty is defined as a multiple of the minimum difficulty, but it is not clear that this in reality means the main net difficulty, not the difficulty of the active net.
See #9597.