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High block mining time even with low difficulty

We have a private network running on Hyperledger Besu. We are using ethash, and it had a fixed difficulty of 3625. That was producing blocks fairly quickly, averaging about 8-10 seconds, with some as ...
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What is the formula to check difficulty on Ethereum genesis block? given ex: genesis block difficulty = 0x0400

I am having trouble understanding something related to calculating difficulty. Target difficulty is described as 2^256 / difficulty . The difficulty of the genesis block is notated as 0x0400 which is ...
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Difficulty level in private network

This article has a good description on how Ethereum calculates a difficulty level. And, this article mentions that the difficulty is adjusted such that, one block is generated every 12 seconds. The ...
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