What is the 'difficulty adjustment' mechanism in Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work?
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A
A fee adjustment that penalizes miners who produce empty blocks
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B
An automatic recalibration every 2,016 blocks to keep average block time near 10 minutes
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C
A manual update by Bitcoin Core developers when hash rate changes
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D
A smart contract that dynamically prices block space based on mempool size