mark07

How do you adjust this difficulty, anyway? (Administrating a decentralized system?) And what would prevent an attacker from setting the difficulty very low or very high to interfere with the system?

My port is open, both in my software and hardware firewall. My router is handling it appropriately. Perhaps it has to do with my connection's very high latency (2000ms or more on average) and/or my high packet loss…

I would like to comment that as of late, it seems almost as if I am generating nearly no Bitcoins. Indeed, my rate of acquisition seems to be greater than ten times slower. If I cannot stay online for about fourteen…