{"id":65352,"date":"2022-08-04T19:28:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=65352"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:26:41","slug":"bitcoin-mining-difficulty-rose-by-1-74-for-the-first-time-in-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-rose-by-1-74-for-the-first-time-in-two-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin mining difficulty rose by 1.74% \u2014 for the first time in two months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the latest recalculation <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-hashrate-and-mining-difficulty-in-cryptocurrencies\">Bitcoin&#8217;s mining difficulty<\/a> rose by 1.74%, to 28.17 T. The indicator has shown positive momentum for the first time since the start of June 2022.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"635\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/diff-9-1024x635.png\" alt=\"\u0421\u043b\u043e\u0436\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c \u043c\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0438\u043d\u0433\u0430 \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d\u0430 \u0432\u044b\u0440\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0430 \u043d\u0430 1,74% \u2014 \u0432\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0432\u044b\u0435 \u0437\u0430 \u043f\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0435\u0434\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0434\u0432\u0430 \u043c\u0435\u0441\u044f\u0446\u0430\" class=\"wp-image-180946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/diff-9-1024x635.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/diff-9-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/diff-9-768x476.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/diff-9.png 1209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/explorer.btc.com\/btc\/insights-difficulty\">BTC.com<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over about a two-week period since the previous recalculation <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-falls-by-a-record-5-since-the-start-of-the-year\">the previous recalculation<\/a>, the network&#8217;s average hash rate stood at 201.43 EH\/s. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/studio.glassnode.com\/metrics?a=BTC&#038;category=&#038;ema=0&#038;m=mining.HashRateMean&#038;mAvg=7&#038;mMedian=0&#038;s=1643904671&#038;u=1659629471&#038;zoom=182\">Glassnode<\/a>, the smoothed 7-day moving average is estimated at 197 EH\/S, substantially below <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-hash-rate-hits-an-all-time-high\">the peak value<\/a> from June 11 (231 EH\/S).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-hash-rate-7d-moving-average-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\u0421\u043b\u043e\u0436\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c \u043c\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0438\u043d\u0433\u0430 \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d\u0430 \u0432\u044b\u0440\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0430 \u043d\u0430 1,74% \u2014 \u0432\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0432\u044b\u0435 \u0437\u0430 \u043f\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0435\u0434\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0434\u0432\u0430 \u043c\u0435\u0441\u044f\u0446\u0430\" class=\"wp-image-180947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-hash-rate-7d-moving-average-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-hash-rate-7d-moving-average-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-hash-rate-7d-moving-average-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-hash-rate-7d-moving-average-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-hash-rate-7d-moving-average-1.png 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: Glassnode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In July, the Bitcoin Mining Council published a report showing that over the last year <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/report-bitcoin-mining-energy-efficiency-up-46-year-on-year\">mining energy efficiency rose by 46%<\/a>, while the hash rate increased by 137%.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2022, publicly traded mining companies sold about 14,600 BTC \u2014 nearly a quarter of their reserves in Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the latest recalculation, Bitcoin mining difficulty rose by 1.74%, to 28.17 T. The indicator has shown positive momentum for the first time since the start of June 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65353,"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":[18,1137],"class_list":["post-65352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65352","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=65352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65354,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65352\/revisions\/65354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}