Difficulty and Timestamp block also contains two very important parameters: a difficulty and a
timestamp. The difficulty regulates how hard it is to find a block by the miner. The mining time is set
to be between 10 and 20 seconds. If it’s beyond 20 seconds, the difficulty is too high and will be
automatically lowered going forward. If the mining happens below 10 seconds, then the difficulty
increases. The timestamp is the time when a miner found the block. It is not automatically derived,
rather it is set by the miner itself and can thus be influenced to a certain degree. The timestamp does
not depend on the time zone, as it’s the standard Unix timestamp.
