# What the relation with mining difficulty and target

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-the-relation-with-mining-difficulty-and-target/18012>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Created:** [June 25, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-the-relation-with-mining-difficulty-and-target/18012 "2017-06-25T17:11:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![haiyang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/haiyang/32/5172_2.png) [@haiyang](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/haiyang)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-the-relation-with-mining-difficulty-and-target/18012/1 "2017-06-25T17:11:21Z")

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In bitcoin, diffculty = 1 means 2^32 times hash, the target is 00000000FFFF0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. But in zcash I did’t find this relationship.

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**Author:** ![haiyang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/haiyang/32/5172_2.png) [@haiyang](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/haiyang)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-the-relation-with-mining-difficulty-and-target/18012/2 "2017-06-25T17:22:45Z")

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I got it, in zcash, difficulty 1 means 2 ^ 13 times hash. the target is 0x0007FFFF00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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**Author:** ![Shawn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/shawn/32/187_2.png) [@Shawn](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Shawn)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-the-relation-with-mining-difficulty-and-target/18012/3 "2017-06-25T17:23:47Z")

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In Zcash the difficulty Algorithm is not like any other coin (except zcash forks, of course) it’s a modified version of Digishield V3, you can read more here: [select difficulty adjustment algorithm · Issue #147 · zcash/zcash · GitHub](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/147)

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**Author:** ![haiyang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/haiyang/32/5172_2.png) [@haiyang](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/haiyang)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-the-relation-with-mining-difficulty-and-target/18012/4 "2017-06-25T17:25:02Z")

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Thanks for your reply.