Network Difficulty
A protocol-level number that controls how hard it is to find a valid Malairte block, adjusting automatically as total network hashrate changes.
Network difficulty is what keeps Malairte blocks arriving at a predictable rate regardless of how much hashrate is online. When more miners join, difficulty rises so blocks do not come out faster; when miners leave, difficulty falls. For an individual home miner, difficulty is the variable that decides how big your slice of each block reward is. A doubling of network difficulty roughly halves your daily MLRT yield from the same hardware. Honest profitability planning treats current difficulty as a snapshot, not a constant.