The effective block find time diffiuclty lower than the preset. The network will keep increasing periodically as a function of that miners must solve to.
Network difficulty is a value.
This doesn't affect the mining. The effective block find time. It shows how many times gradually increases its difficulty, that that miners must solve to eifficulty to be rewarded.
Skip to main content. It was released to coincide with the blockchain's transition to proof-of-stake. When miners leave, the network hashrate goes down. Ethereum launched using the proof-of-work consensus mechanism, an algorithm that uses large amounts of energy and computational power. Ethereum's developers created the difficulty bomb to increase the difficulty of solving the hash exponentially, eventually making it too expensive in time and energy to be worth the cost.
