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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Surges to All-Time High, Putting Additional Squeeze on Miners
10.10.2022
Bitcoin mining difficult has soared by 13.55% to 35.6 trillion, its largest one-day rise since May, 2021, according to data from btc.com
Biggest mining difficulty spike in 14 months — 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week
10.10.2022
Macro forces are brewing, while Bitcoin network fundamentals defy the bears — which side will win out when it comes to BTC price action?
Progress Toward Bitcoin’s Halving Is 60% Complete, Block Times Suggest Reduction Could Happen Next Year
9.10.2022
According to countdown statistics based on the average block generation time of around ten minutes, progress toward the next Bitcoin block reward halving has surpassed 60%. However, while most halving countdown clocks leverage the ten-minute average, the countdown leveraging the most current block...
Sleuth Discovers Satoshi’s Long-Lost Bitcoin Version 0.1 Codebase, Raw Code Contains Bitcoin Inventor’s Never-Before-Seen Personal Notations
7.10.2022
On October 7, 2022, a bitcoin supporter named Jim Blasko explained that he discovered the oldest upload of Bitcoin’s version 0.1 codebase. The original code was thought to have been lost for more than a decade and with a “little browser hacking” Blasko was able to find the lost...
Current Block Times and Estimates Suggest Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Is About to Catapult Much Higher
7.10.2022
As bitcoin is coasting along under the $20K region, the network’s hashrate is still riding high at 250.04 exahash per second (EH/s) following the all-time high (ATH) the hashrate tapped on October 5. At the time of writing, the current speed at which blocks are processed is faster than...
Bitcoin Mining Is About Get Tougher With Difficulty Primed for Another Sharp Rise
6.10.2022
Miners with higher cost and large debt load will be weeded out by the crypto winter, according to industry experts
Bitcoin’s Total Network Hashrate Hits an All-Time High at 321 Exahash per Second
5.10.2022
According to statistics on October 5, the total computational power backing the Bitcoin network tapped a fresh all-time high reaching 321.15 exahash per second (EH/s). Just after the record high, the network’s total hashrate was coasting along above the 300 EH/s on Wednesday afternoon (ET)...
Data Shows Bitcoin’s Hashrate Has Grown by More Than 4 Quadrillion Percent Since 2009
3.10.2022
Following the network difficulty change six days ago on September 27, Bitcoin’s hashrate surpassed the 295 exahash per second (EH/s) range two times during the first two days of October. Presently the network is coasting along at 229 EH/s and block intervals have been faster than...
Bitcoin sees first difficulty drop in 2 months as miners sell 8K BTC
30.9.2022
Recent weeks have caused fresh headaches for miners, who at one point were reducing their balances by more than 8,500 BTC per month
Bitcoin Network’s Mining Difficulty Drops for the First Time in 2 Months
28.9.2022
Following four consecutive Bitcoin mining difficulty increases, the network’s difficulty dropped for the first time in 68 days, sliding 2.14% at block height 756,000 on Tuesday. The change means it’s currently 2.14% easier to find a bitcoin block reward following the mining...
While Known Mining Pools Currently Dominate, Unknown Miners Discovered the Most Bitcoin Blocks During the Last 13 Years
24.9.2022
The Bitcoin network has been operational for 5,012 days and so far, more than 755,000 blocks have been mined into existence. During the last year, Foundry USA and Antpool were the top two miners as the combined pools collectively mined 18,229 blocks out of the 53,510 blocks mined this year. Foundry...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Up 3.45% in 4th Upward Revision in a Row as Miners Struggle
14.9.2022
The difficulty of mining Bitcoin (BTC) rose by 3.45% on Tuesday, marking the fourth consecutive increase in difficulty for the network.
Per data from BTC.com, the latest upwards adjustment brought the difficulty level of mining Bitcoin to 32.05 T – the highest level ever for the Bitcoin network....
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Edges to All-Time High
14.9.2022
The bump in mining difficulty comes as hashrate remains strong, despite bitcoin’s price edging downwards
Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Taps All-Time High — 220 Exahash of Hashpower Remains Strong
14.9.2022
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty reached a new all-time high at block height 753,984 from 30.97 trillion hashes to 32.05 trillion hashes. After two difficulty increases during the past month, the network’s mining difficulty jumped another ​​3.45% higher on September...
Current Block Times Suggest Bitcoin’s Halving Is Coming Sooner Than Expected
12.9.2022
Bitcoin’s hashrate has been running hot despite the lower prices and the recent difficulty increases. In fact, blocks are being discovered faster than the ten-minute block interval average and because of this factor, the network’s reward halving may come sooner than expected. While...
74% of Ethereum nodes ‘Merge ready’ ahead of Bellatrix upgrade
6.9.2022
The need to update Ethereum clients comes as the Bellatrix upgrade is set to enable the Beacon Chain to execute transactions
Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Change Prints 2022’s Second Largest Increase — Metric Nears All-Time High
31.8.2022
On Wednesday, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty jumped 9.26% higher, recording the second highest difficulty rise in 2022. The latest rise is Bitcoin’s third difficulty increase since August 4, 2022, and it’s now 11.63% harder to find bitcoin block reward. Bitcoin Difficulty Jumps...
Bitcoin Miners' Profitability May Narrow as Mining Difficulty Hits Second-Biggest Increase This Year
31.8.2022
Bitcoin miners are stepping up production as the weather cools down, so the network automatically adjusted to increase the difficulty of mining a block
Bitcoin mining has never been more competitive even as BTC loses 13% in August
31.8.2022
Bitcoin difficulty completes its largest single upward readjustment since January, with average hash rate eyeing new all-time highs of its own
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Nears All-Time High Amid Dropping Profitability
31.8.2022
Today, Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty, or the measure of how hard it is to compete for mining rewards, jumped the most since January this year, nearing its all-time high and cutting into the profit margins of miners at the time when their business profitability is declining....
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