Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Rises 8th Time in a Row

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With Bitcoin achieving a new all time high recently, its seems network's mining operations are on the way to full recovery after a short term disruption due to Chinese mining ban earlier this year. Bitcoin mining difficulty a parameter used to determine how difficult it is to mine Bitcoin, yesterday rose by as much as 7.85% since the last adjustment.

This is the eight positive difficulty adjustment in a row since last July, with network difficulty reaching 21.66 trillion. Back in mid May this year before China's crypto mining ban, network difficulty was all time high at 25.046 trillion. Apparently the network is back on the path of steady recovery.

Bitcoin mining difficulty is a measure of how much computational power is required by miners to earn bitcoin by validating the transactions on the network. More number of miners competing for the upcoming block, more it is difficult to mine the Bitcoin. Mining difficulty auto adjusts every 2016 blocks or fortnightly, acting as an indicator of competition among miners. The difficulty adjustments keep the average block mining time at 10min, thereby ensuring the next halving happens on forecasted time(May 10, 2024).

Meanwhile, network's total hashrate is also on steady rise too. Currently network hashrate is at 159.871 Th/s, a value highest since mid May's decline from highest value of 188.67 Th/s.

Recent network parameters are in perfect correlation, with rise in coin's price in past months, as a new all time high of $67,276 was achieved last month.