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Difficulty note and thompson ref #383

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No, this exponential thing is not to account for Moore's law. It's about forcing the chain to stop at some point in the future. See "ice age" or "difficulty bomb".

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Ah yeah, I forgot about that. I'll edit that paragraph.

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Replaced by #435.

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