Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits Its 3rd All-Time High in a Row
Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty has made another jump, hitting a new all-time high (ATH) – the third one in a row.
Further cutting into the miners' profit margins, the mining difficulty (the measure of how hard it is to compete for mining rewards) just went up 4.78%, reaching almost 27.97 T.
Not only is this the first time the difficulty went into the 27 T level, not to mention nearly hitting the 28 T level, but it also marks another in a series of difficulty jumps to an ATH within the last six weeks.
Prior to this series of ATHs, the mining difficulty had hit its high back in mid-May last year of 25.05 T, dropping heavily right after. It took it months to surpass this level and start breaking records again.
Hashrate (the computational power of the network) has also been on the rise, hitting its own ATHs.
Since the previous difficulty adjustment two weeks ago, the 7-day moving average hashrate has increased 8%.
A higher hash rate is indicative of more miners securing the network by verifying the blockchain’s transactions.
Following the ban on BTC and crypto mining in China and the subsequent move of miners – therefore of hashrate – across the world, mostly to the US, the hashrate has recovered in just a few months, now hitting ATHs.
“This means that the number of miners has been growing even as some move out of China. This spike could be a result of miners finishing the migration of their farms from China to other countries and starting to operate again,” per crypto research firm Delphi Digital.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin mining profitability saw an increase as well, of 15% since the previous adjustment, as the price of BTC increased since then too. However, this profitability is still much smaller compared to what the miners could
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