john_omega

I think that no bitcoins generated in 8 hours from within a VM utilizing two modern cores is probably not unusual. Keep it running for a few days and I expect that you'll generate more than a few packs of bitcoins.

It may take longer than 8 hours to generate a block. Have you previously generated bitcoins? Are the number of blocks listed at the bottom of Bitcoin greater than 42650? Those need to download before it can start…

My understanding is that every Bitcoin client has the same algorithm (formula) built into it to automatically adjust the difficulty every so many blocks. Not only that, but I think that Bitcoin will not accept blocks…