There seeems to be this misconception that eip-2 introduced the difficulty bomb. > the client will calculate the difficulty based on a fake block number suggesting the client that the difficulty bomb is adjusting around 6 million blocks later than previously specified with the Homestead fork. <ethereum/EIPs#1234> > Due to the "difficulty bomb" (also known as the "ice age"), introduced in EIP ethereum#2, an artificial exponential increase in difficulty until chain freeze, <https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1227.md> When looking into the homestead fork (specified in eip-2), it seems that the difficulty change has nothing to do with the difficulty bomb. The difficulty bomb has always been there. Why was the difficulty bomb introduced in the first place? <https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/08/04/ethereum-protocol-update-1/> > starting from block 200,000 (very roughly 17 days from now), the difficulty will undergo an exponential increase which will only become noticeable in about a year. https://ethereum.org/en/glossary/#ice-age

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