diff --git a/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md b/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md
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--- a/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md
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@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ Starting geth in dev mode does the following:
 -   Turns off discovery by other nodes
 -   Sets the gas price to 0
 -   Uses the Clique PoA consensus engine with which allows blocks to be mined as-needed without excessive CPU and memory consumption
--   Prevents the consensus (proof of work) difficulty from ever increasing
 -   Uses on-demand block generation, producing blocks when there are transactions waiting to be mined
 
 You can specify a data directory to maintain state between runs using the `--datadir` option, otherwise databases are ephemeral and in-memory: