Check chain difficulty status this weekend

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Check difficulty status this weekend

The resurrection mining brought Homestead difficulty down from 62.38 TH to 1.26 GH (99.998% reduction) as of Jan 29. The target is ~46 MH for CPU-mineable levels.

What to check

1. Current block number and difficulty — connect to the chain-of-geths v1.3.6 node and query:

   eth.getBlock(eth.blockNumber).difficulty
   eth.blockNumber
   

2. Is difficulty still dropping? — with the GPU miner stopped, the ice age / difficulty bomb should still be increasing block times, but no new blocks means difficulty is frozen at whatever the last mined block was.
3. Are any blocks being mined? — check if block number has advanced since Jan 29 (block 1,920,944).
4. Is the chain accessible? — verify the chain-of-geths stack is still running and v1.3.6 is synced.

Context

• Last known: Block 1,920,944, difficulty 1.26 GH
• Target: ~46 MH (CPU-mineable)
• Mining was done on 8x RTX 3090 (~846 MH/s)
• Difficulty only drops when new blocks are mined with large timestamp gaps (Homestead EIP-2 algorithm reduces by ~4.83% per block with 1000s gaps)

Update resurrection README

If there's new data, update resurrection/README.md with the latest block/difficulty figures.