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Bitcoin miners get relief as difficulty drops 4%

Bitcoin miners get relief as difficulty drops 4%

GrafaGrafa2024/08/19 06:45
By:Mahathir Bayena

Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) miners recently experienced a significant adjustment in the network's mining difficulty, which decreased by more than 4%.

This change comes as a relief to miners who have been under pressure from the high difficulty levels that had spiked in the previous adjustment.

Mining difficulty is a metric that determines how challenging it is for miners to validate transactions and add new blocks to the Bitcoin blockchain.

The network undergoes an automatic adjustment approximately every two weeks to maintain a consistent block production rate, targeting one block every ten minutes.

When the total computing power or hashrate of the network increases, the difficulty rises to slow down the block production rate, ensuring that Bitcoin's inflation rate remains controlled.

In the latest adjustment, the difficulty decreased, indicating that miners had been facing increased strain due to the previous spike in difficulty.

The recent decrease will allow miners to process blocks more efficiently, even with potentially reduced computing power, as the network adjusts to the current hashrate.

Before this adjustment, the mining hashrate had reached a new all-time high, prompting the network to increase the difficulty significantly.

This spike in difficulty had made mining more challenging, reducing the revenue share for individual miners.

As a result, some miners had to scale back their operations, leading to a slight decline in the overall hashrate.

With the latest decrease in difficulty, miners may find it easier to maintain their operations, potentially leading to more stable conditions in the mining industry.

As of now, Bitcoin is trading at around $58,500, down more than 2% over the past week.

The recent difficulty adjustment could provide some much-needed relief for miners as they navigate the fluctuating market conditions.

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