diff --git a/api/src/consts.rs b/api/src/consts.rs
index e45eabc..5ae12b9 100644
--- a/api/src/consts.rs
+++ b/api/src/consts.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use solana_program::{pubkey, pubkey::Pubkey};
 pub const INITIALIZER_ADDRESS: Pubkey = pubkey!("HBUh9g46wk2X89CvaNN15UmsznP59rh6od1h8JwYAopk");
 
 /// The base reward rate to intialize the program with.
-pub const INITIAL_BASE_REWARD_RATE: u64 = 2u64.pow(6);
+pub const INITIAL_BASE_REWARD_RATE: u64 = BASE_REWARD_RATE_MIN_THRESHOLD;
 
 /// The minimum allowed base reward rate, at which point the min difficulty should be increased
 pub const BASE_REWARD_RATE_MIN_THRESHOLD: u64 = 2u64.pow(5);
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ pub const BASE_REWARD_RATE_MAX_THRESHOLD: u64 = 2u64.pow(8);
 pub const TOLERANCE: i64 = 5;
 
 /// The minimum difficulty to initialize the program with.
-pub const INITIAL_MIN_DIFFICULTY: u32 = 8;
+pub const INITIAL_MIN_DIFFICULTY: u32 = 1;
 
 /// The decimal precision of the ORE token.
 /// There are 100 billion indivisible units per ORE (called "grains").
diff --git a/program/src/reset.rs b/program/src/reset.rs
index 7c53c57..6ca36ad 100644
--- a/program/src/reset.rs
+++ b/program/src/reset.rs
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ pub fn process_reset<'a, 'info>(
     }
 
     // If base reward rate is too high, then decrement difficulty by 1 and halve base reward rate
-    if config.base_reward_rate.ge(&BASE_REWARD_RATE_MAX_THRESHOLD) && config.min_difficulty.gt(&0) {
+    if config.base_reward_rate.ge(&BASE_REWARD_RATE_MAX_THRESHOLD) && config.min_difficulty.gt(&1) {
         config.min_difficulty = config.min_difficulty.checked_sub(1).unwrap();
         config.base_reward_rate = config.base_reward_rate.checked_div(2).unwrap();
     }