diff --git a/params/protocol_params.go b/params/protocol_params.go
index 5a0b14d61a30..d8c00f015fda 100644
--- a/params/protocol_params.go
+++ b/params/protocol_params.go
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ const (
 
 var (
 	DifficultyBoundDivisor = big.NewInt(2048)   // The bound divisor of the difficulty, used in the update calculations.
-	GenesisDifficulty      = big.NewInt(131072) // Difficulty of the Genesis block.
-	MinimumDifficulty      = big.NewInt(131072) // The minimum that the difficulty may ever be.
+	GenesisDifficulty      = big.NewInt(8192) // Difficulty of the Genesis block.
+	MinimumDifficulty      = big.NewInt(8192) // The minimum that the difficulty may ever be.
 	DurationLimit          = big.NewInt(13)     // The decision boundary on the blocktime duration used to determine whether difficulty should go up or not.
 )