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Clarify the getDifficultyTarget() javadoc.

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Mike Hearn 2013-02-11 20:31:14 +01:00
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core/src/main/java/com/google/bitcoin/core/Block.java
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@ -853,9 +853,13 @@ public class Block extends Message {
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/**
* Returns the difficulty of the proof of work that this block should meet encoded in compact form. The {@link
* Returns the difficulty of the proof of work that this block should meet encoded <b>in compact form</b>. The {@link
* BlockChain} verifies that this is not too easy by looking at the length of the chain when the block is added.
* To find the actual value the hash should be compared against, use getDifficultyTargetBI.
* To find the actual value the hash should be compared against, use
* {@link com.google.bitcoin.core.Block#getDifficultyTargetAsInteger()}. Note that this is <b>not</b> the same as
* the difficulty value reported by the Bitcoin "getdifficulty" RPC that you may see on various block explorers.
* That number is the result of applying a formula to the underlying difficulty to normalize the minimum to 1.
* Calculating the difficulty that way is currently unsupported.
*/
public long getDifficultyTarget() {
maybeParseHeader();