Bitcoin network difficulty reaches all-time high as miners pursue 2M BTC

Bitcoin network difficulty reaches all-time high as miners pursue 2M BTC

Bitcoin’s hash rate maintained a stronghold throughout the year as it compliments the new ATH for BTC network difficulty. Just when the Bitcoin (BTC) miners helped release the 19th millionth BTC in circulation on Friday, the BTC network’s mining difficulty reciprocated by reaching an all-time high of 28.587 trillion. Bitcoin’s network difficulty correlates to the computational power required to mine BTC blocks, which currently demands an estimated hash rate of 201.84 exahash per second (EH/s), according to data from Blockchain.com.Bitcoin network difficulty. Source:....


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