Dingocoin Hashrate Migration
how it’s computed →
Every Dingocoin block retargets difficulty, so each block leaves a step r = ln(D_i/D_{i−1}). Under steady hashrate the steps are near-independent and zig-zag; when hashrate is arriving or leaving they keep the same sign for hours. The meter is the lag-1 autocorrelation of the last 240 steps × √240 — under the constant-hashrate null that is a standard normal, so the σ scale is exact, not fitted.
Beside it the page shows the 4-hour mean-difficulty change against this chain’s own typical 4-hour move, measured over our archive — so a large but ordinary swing is not mistaken for a sustained one.
r_i = ln(difficulty_i / difficulty_{i-1}) per block; AC1 = lag-1 autocorrelation of r over the last 240 blocks (about 4 h at a 60 s target); sigma = AC1 x sqrt(240), because under constant hashrate the r_i are near-independent and AC1 ~ N(0, 1/240); net_4h = mean difficulty of the last 240 blocks vs the prior 240; typical_4h = the spread of that ratio over our own archive (not a Poisson figure — hashrate itself wanders)What hashrate migration is
Hashrate migration is the persistence of Dingocoin’s per-block difficulty steps — a run of steps in one direction that block luck alone would not produce — read as mining power arriving at or leaving the chain. Dingocoin retargets every block (DigiShield, Dogecoin-1.14 class): every block moves difficulty by the damped ratio of the last interval to the 60-second target, so a chain whose hashrate is steady zig-zags around its level block by block, and a chain whose hashrate is moving steps the same way for hours.
Whose power moves on Dingocoin
On Dingocoin the power that moves is parent-pool power: DINGO is merge-mined under Litecoin parent pools, so a “moving” reading here usually means a parent roster added or dropped DINGO, not that DINGO-side machines were switched on or off. In our dated attribution study (2026-10-02 → 2026-10-10), F2Pool 35.7%, ViaBTC 29.2% and AntPool 22.3% of DINGO blocks carried those tags. Both majors folded DINGO into their LTC baskets in the same week of March 2025, and our own first day of attribution capture (1,169 blocks, 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-03) was dominated by F2Pool, ViaBTC and AntPool tags.
Ordinary swings on this chain
The typical 4-hour move for Dingocoin — ±10.7% in mean difficulty as of 2026-10-31 — is shown next to the live 4-hour change so a reader can tell a large but ordinary swing from a sustained one. On a 1,440-block-a-day chain a 4-hour window is 240 blocks, which is why the meter’s null distribution is N(0, 1/240) and why the σ scale needs no calibration.
FAQ
- Why does Dingocoin qualify for this meter when Litecoin does not?
- Dingocoin retargets every block (DigiShield), so each block leaves a difficulty step whose direction can be tested for persistence. Chains that retarget in epochs — Bitcoin, Litecoin, Namecoin — step once per epoch, and the meter is undefined between steps; for them the next-adjustment band is the equivalent instrument.
- What does quiet mean here?
- That the last 240 difficulty steps zig-zag the way luck alone would: the lag-1 autocorrelation of ln(D_i/D_i-1) is within 3 standard deviations of zero under the constant-hashrate null, whose variance is 1/240. It does not mean difficulty was flat — a 10.7% swing in the 4-hour mean is ordinary on Dingocoin.
- Is this the Difficulty Ribbon?
- No. The Difficulty Ribbon is a market-facing indicator built from moving averages of difficulty. This meter uses no market data and no moving average: it tests whether consecutive per-block retargets on Dingocoin keep the same sign longer than chance allows.