Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits Record High Amid Miner Revenue Surge

Total Bitcoin miner revenue has been on a steady uptrend since the start of the year, hitting its new all time high on Friday. According to figures from on-chain analytics site Glassnode, miners are now making an aggregate $64 million from newly minted coins and fees — up nearly 400% since a year ago. It’s important to note that this is despite block subsidy being cut in half post-halving.  Mining Revenue Up Despite Mining Difficulty […]

Bitcoin mining difficulty has posted another negative adjustment on Sunday, with the difficulty rate almost halving since mid-May. Amid the ongoing crackdown on cryptocurrency mining in China, mining new Bitcoin (BTC) continues getting easier as BTC has experienced another mining difficulty drop.On July 18, the Bitcoin network posted its fourth consecutive negative adjustment of mining difficulty, dropping 4.8%, according to data from Bitcoin explorer BTC.com.The latest mining difficulty adjustment occurred at block 691,488, reducing the difficulty rate from 14.4 trillion to 13.7 trillion,....

Mining new Bitcoin keeps getting harder, but the current difficulty is still far from its record highs. As the Bitcoin network hash rate continues to recover amid global miners accumulating more capacity, the cryptocurrency is getting increasingly difficult to mine.On Tuesday, the Bitcoin network posted another mining difficulty adjustment, rising 3.2% to hit a difficulty rate of nearly 19 trillion, according to data from blockchain explorer BTC.com.The latest adjustment makes up the fifth consecutive surge of Bitcoin’s (BTC) mining difficulty since mid-July, with the difficulty rate....

It's a tale of two Bitcoins as active miners reap the benefits while others remain completely offline. Bitcoin (BTC) miner revenue jumped after the network saw its biggest-ever difficulty drop, data shows. According to figures from monitoring resource Blockchain, daily revenues have surged by over 50%."Interesting dynamic" hits Bitcoin miningBitcoin mining is currently in a unique state of flux — around half the hashing power is offline as miners relocate from China, and it remains unknown how quickly they will be able to come back online.At the same time, those miners unaffected by the....

The Bitcoin mining difficulty has registered another positive adjustment today, which has led to the metric setting a new all-time high (ATH). Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Has Seen Four Consecutive Positive Changes Now The “mining difficulty” is a feature on the Bitcoin blockchain that controls how hard the miners would find it to hash blocks on […]