Could bitcoin employ a continuously varying difficulty adjustment algorithm? [duplicate]Instead of adjusting the difficulty every 2016 blocks, could the difficulty of every block be individually set based on the previous 2016 blocks? This would avoid discontinuities in difficulty, but might come with other downsides.
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