Difficulty Bomb
Difficulty Bomb is a mechanism used in some blockchains such as Ethereum and encourages miners to switch to a new protocol by slowing down the rate of block production.
Difficulty Bomb is a mechanism in some blockchains such as Ethereum that increases the mining difficulty and slows down the block production process. This mechanism introduces a pre-programmed difficulty increase at a certain point in the blockchain, which reduces the block production rate and requires miners to put more effort into creating new blocks. This allows for a controlled reduction in the block production rate on the chain and is often used in conjunction with a protocol update. This way, developers or communities looking to change a blockchain s consensus can encourage miners and other participants to accept the update.
