{"id":60743,"date":"2022-04-28T13:03:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T10:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60743"},"modified":"2025-09-05T05:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:07:34","slug":"bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-a-new-high-up-more-than-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-a-new-high-up-more-than-5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin mining difficulty hits a new high, up more than 5.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of another difficulty adjustment, the mining difficulty of the leading cryptocurrency rose by 5.56% and reached a record 29.79 T.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image\\\"><img decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/HYmB5jhe0ebCGIMfvAn-A5PEyQu2j9YwMyxRaQKObWWajsJ_AdOhDKPracTLaEobR6uJYa7zNn58JAOT88Fsfoba-pqepZ0t83p_6XOQGPj8uMFD9Tm3j5chp4asK6H2symOSq4v\\\" alt=\\\"Bitcoin mining difficulty hits a new high with a rise of more than 5.5%\\\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-a-new-high-after-a-near-5-rise\">BTC.com<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The percentage increase turned out to be the second-largest since the start of the year. On January 21, it <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-a-new-record-2\">rose by 9.32%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The network&#8217;s average <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-hashrate-and-mining-difficulty-in-cryptocurrencies\">hash rate<\/a>, with which the difficulty correlates, reached 213 EH\/s in the period between recalculations.<\/p>\n<p>According to Glassnode, as of April 27 the metric (smoothed 7-day moving average) surpassed 223 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image\\\"><img decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/ZW8OhZIDJH16lRH9k7YT64uixZltzpzlR9JnlEJmFIzfiToOplH67mwpyrTzMM-Xxyype-1VH9w02hrI8AN1s-DHflmHlFjTcD5ileY9VM19xp8tDyKTtrqvzAPXAUw5EcJsVB-A\\\" alt=\\\"Bitcoin mining difficulty hits a new high with a rise of more than 5.5%\\\" \/><figcaption>Data: Glassnode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since the summer 2021 downturn following the Chinese ban on mining, the hashrate has shown a trend of steady growth. Over the period since the beginning of August, negative difficulty corrections have occurred only four times. The maximum decline occurred twice at just 1.49%.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the United States displaced the PRC from the top of the Bitcoin hashrate share rankings. In November, American Foundry USA surged to the lead among mining pools.<\/p>\n<p>According to BTC.com, it continues to dominate with a 17.62% share.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image\\\"><img decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/zfNBg9e-4QtVm8kZaHP-E_hIiGstmYUD_0AByuXarx04ArlKwJ07c6KqP1UpVDpg1mGYhCzLTpGiuxIh224VqXjhHwhH2WBwDFV1GQnr8Gcz9U8cE74ZLftu0RFExo92o3al\\\" alt=\\\"Bitcoin mining difficulty hits a new high with a rise of more than 5.5%\\\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/btc.com\/btc\/insights-pools\\\">BTC.com<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Foundry USA&#8217;s clients include Hut 8, Bitfarms, CleanSpark or Bit Digital.<\/p>\n<p>According to Arcane Research, the share of <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/publicly-listed-mining-companies-account-for-19-of-bitcoins-total-hash-rate\">exchange-traded Bitcoin miners<\/a> in the network&#8217;s hashrate reached 19%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of another difficulty adjustment, the mining difficulty of the leading cryptocurrency rose by 5.56% and reached a record high of 29.79 T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137],"class_list":["post-60743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60745,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60743\/revisions\/60745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}