Bitcoin mining difficulty increased by 9% at once

As a result of the next recalculation, the difficulty of mining the first cryptocurrency increased by 9.26%, to 30.97 T.

Data: BTC.com.

In the approximately two-week period between the latest metric adjustments, the average network hashrate was 221 EH/s.

According to Glassnode, as of August 30, computingnetwork capacity (smoothed seven-day moving average) reached 222.3 EH/s. The figure is gradually returning to levels near the peak value of June 11 (231 EH / s).

Data: Glassnode. 

Foundry USA continues to hold the lead among mining pools in terms of the share of bitcoin hashrate - 23.25%. It is followed by F2Pool (16.42%) and AntPool (13.43%) affiliated with Bitmain.

Data: BTC.com.

Daily income of miners since mid-Junefluctuates around the level of $20 million. In total, for the first month of summer, the figure amounted to $668 million - 26% less than in May. In July, revenue fell another 9% to $609.7 million.

Daily income of miners (average for 7 days). Data: Blockchain.com.

In June, large public miners sold a total ofdifficulty of about 14,600 BTC, which accounted for 23% of their total reserves in the first cryptocurrency. In July, the trend continued as companies liquidated 5,767.9 BTC for a total mining of 3,478 BTC.

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Recall that the mining difficulty reached its maximum on May 11 (31.25 T), on the eve of the fall of the crypto market, provoked by the collapse of Terra.

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