Implement Difficulty Freeze

Status history

1. Draft10 Feb 2020
2. ⋯Stagnantdate not observed

Abstract

The difficulty Freeze is a mechanism that is easy to predict and model, and the pressures of missing it are more readily felt by the core developers and client maintainers. The client maintainers are also positioned as the group that is most able to respond to an incoming Difficulty Freeze. This combined with the predictability is more likely to lead to the timely diffusual of the bomb.