Three Bitcoin Mining Downward Difficulty Adjustments In A Row
This will be the third mining difficulty downward adjustment in a row with four downward adjustments over the course of the last five difficulty epochs.The below is a direct excerpt of Marty's Bent Issue #1240: “Another downward difficulty adjustment is on the way.” Sign up for the newsletter here.Bit ASICs heating a greenhouse via Clark Moody's Dashboard Don't look now, but July 21, 2022, should bring a downward difficulty adjustment of around 5%, which will be the third consecutive downward adjustment and the fourth over the course of the last five difficulty epochs. Marking the....
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Bitcoin experienced two massive mining difficulty adjustments recently. Is this something to be concerned about? Before the recent halving, many were prophesying a so-called “death spiral” for Bitcoin. This theory hinges on the idea that the halving of the block reward leads to an exodus of miners due to the sudden unprofitability of mining activities. As a result, the network hashrate decreases and the block time increases, meaning that miner revenue further diminishes, pushing more miners off the network. This loop would then allegedly continue until there is no one left to mine Bitcoin....
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