{"id":75468,"date":"2023-03-13T17:52:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=75468"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:50:29","slug":"bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin mining difficulty hits record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the latest adjustment, the mining difficulty of the first cryptocurrency rose by 1.16%. The metric posted a new all-time high at 43.55 T.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-44-1024x593.png\" alt=\"111-44\" class=\"wp-image-200389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-44-1024x593.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-44-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-44-768x445.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-44-1536x890.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-44-2048x1187.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Mining difficulty. Data: BTC.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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=1659268705&#038;u=1674993505&#038;zoom=182\">Glassnode<\/a>, the network&#8217;s smoothed 7-day moving average hash rate is near 315 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\/222-37-1024x576.png\" alt=\"222-37\" class=\"wp-image-200390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/222-37-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/222-37-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/222-37-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/222-37-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/222-37.png 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/data.hashrateindex.com\/chart\/bitcoin-hashprice-index\">Hashrate Index<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-descr=\"miner revenue per unit of computing power\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Hashprice<\/span> with a value of $0.065 per TH\/s per day fell to its lowest level in the past month.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/333-22-1024x671.png\" alt=\"333-22\" class=\"wp-image-200392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/333-22-1024x671.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/333-22-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/333-22-768x503.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/333-22-1536x1007.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/333-22.png 1956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/data.hashrateindex.com\/chart\/bitcoin-hashprice-index\">Hashrate Index<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In January, the mining difficulty for the first cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-new-all-time-high\">rose by 4.68%<\/a>, updating a historical maximum at 39.35 T. In February the indicator <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-rises-by-9-95-to-43-05-t\">increased by another 10%<\/a>, to 43.05 T.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the U.S. Treasury <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/us-proposes-a-30-levy-on-electricity-consumed-by-miners\">advocated for the introduction of an excise tax<\/a> on mining companies, at 30% of the electricity costs consumed by the equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the latest adjustment, mining difficulty for the first cryptocurrency rose by 1.16%. The metric posted a new all-time high at 43.55 T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75469,"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-75468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75468","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=75468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75470,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75468\/revisions\/75470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}