24 = hours 60 = minutes 7 = days so I'm only off by a factor of 2^3.3, not by a factor of 2^9.3
Cheers. On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Joseph Birr-Pixton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 December 2014 at 10:40, Ryan Carboni <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://blockexplorer.com/q/hashestowin > > log(171833398380382098659*24*60*7)/log(2) > > I think your calculation is slightly off. hashestowin is the average > number of hashes you need to perform to win the current block. It's > not necessarily the case that a block is calculated each second: in > fact one is found (on average) each 625 seconds[1]. > > So that gives: > > >>> log(171833398380382098659*24*60*7/625)/log(2) > 71.23 > > Cheers, > Joe > > [1] https://blockexplorer.com/q/interval >
