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This tag should be used for questions regarding difficulty which encodes the likelihood of one hash to succeed at mining a block. Indirectly, it is a measure of the total hashing power of all miners for a given cryptocurrency.
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Why can't a Bitcoin fork take over?
According to this question's answers, the difficulty is entirely a result of previous info on a blockchain:
How is difficulty calculated? … So why can't someone simply fork an earlier state of Bitcoin's blockhain, back when the difficulty was far less, and simply pretend it always took a long time to solve an easy (by now) hash problem, ie …
