Mining Difficulty


Markets

Bitcoin Difficulty Hits New Highs as Key Metric Signals Miner Capitulation and Possible Bottom

Hash Ribbon signals miner capitulation, which tends to mark a local bottom in the bitcoin price.

BTC: Difficulty Adjustment Percent Change (Glassnode)

Markets

Bitcoin Difficulty Hits All-Time High, Adjusts Positively for 8th Consecutive Time

When bitcoin typically puts in these many consecutive positive adjustments it has marked near cycle tops and bottoms.

BTC Difficulty Adjustment (Glassnode)

Markets

Bitcoin Miners Approach $40B Market Cap as Difficulty Set for Fifth Straight Increase

The bitcoin hashrate is still soaring as mining difficulty looks to increase for a fifth consecutive time.

Coinmint, a crypto data center in upstate New York, is set to host a portion of new miners from Riot’s Oklahoma City facility. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Tech

Litecoin Mining Difficulty Is Hitting New Highs, Foundation Says

The network’s mining difficulty peaked on Friday, indicating increased competition for miner rewards.

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Finance

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Surges to All-Time High, Putting Additional Squeeze on Miners

The difficulty gauge rose 13.55% from the last adjustment roughly two weeks ago, the largest such move since May 2021.

Antminer bitcoin mining rigs displayed at Consensus 2021 (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Edges to All-Time High

The bump in mining difficulty comes as hashrate remains strong, despite bitcoin’s price edging downward.

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Tech

Suggestions That Bitcoin Halving Might Come Sooner Are Mostly Wrong

Bitcoin’s hashrate is reaching all-time highs, and it’s causing confusion about “the halvening” on Twitter.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miners' Profitability May Narrow as Mining Difficulty Hits Second-Biggest Increase This Year

Bitcoin miners are stepping up production as the weather cools down, so the network automatically adjusted to increase the difficulty of mining a block.

Bitcoin mining machines (Michal Bednarek/Shutterstock)

Tech

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Poised to Spike by Most Since January Amid Colder Weather

Some analysts are starting to see this as start of a new seasonal trend in bitcoin mining

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Finance

Sell-Side Analysts Trim Targets for Bitcoin Miner Argo Blockchain

Earlier this week, Argo lowered its year-end hashrate outlook from 5 EH/s to 3.2 EH/s.

Argo Blockchain's Helios facility in Dickens County, Texas. (Argo Blockchain)

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