Today, mining difficulty has increased by 9%, setting a new record.
As you can see in the graph below, the hashrateBitcoin has fully recovered after a sharp fall in the summer, when Chinese authorities began to close all farms.
Since then, both the hashrate and the difficulty of mining have gradually grown. The US has become the new hashrate leader in the world. On January 8 this year, the difficulty increased by 0.41%, and today by as much as 9.32%.
Bitcoin mining difficulty is being reconfiguredevery 2016 blocks or approximately every two weeks. This mechanism is designed to keep the average block rate at 1 block per 10 minutes as the hashrate rises and falls.
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