{"id":77591,"date":"2023-04-20T17:55:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T14:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=77591"},"modified":"2025-09-11T00:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:10:44","slug":"bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-a-new-high-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-a-new-high-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin mining difficulty hits a new high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of another recalculation <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-hashrate-and-mining-difficulty-in-cryptocurrencies\">mining difficulty<\/a> for the first cryptocurrency rose by 1.72%. The metric climbed to a new high at 48.71 T.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219-1024x657.png\" alt=\"image-219\" class=\"wp-image-204999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219-1024x657.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219-768x493.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219.png 1146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/explorer.btc.com\/btc\/insights-difficulty\">BTC.com<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219-1024x601.png\" alt=\"image-219\" class=\"wp-image-204998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219-1024x601.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219-768x451.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219.png 1272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: Glassnode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The average hash rate over the period since <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-a-new-high-5\">the previous change<\/a> stood at 348.6 EH\/s. This indicates miners are ramping up their computational power.<\/p>\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 smoothed 7-day moving average on April 18 reached a peak of 356 EH\/s. It subsequently corrected to around 347 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219-1024x601.png\" alt=\"image-219\" class=\"wp-image-204998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219-1024x601.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219-768x451.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-219.png 1272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: Glassnode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The rise in mining difficulty, coupled with a drop in the price of the first cryptocurrency, is likely to have squeezed miners\u2019 revenues. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/data.hashrateindex.com\/network-data\/btc\">Hashrate Index<\/a>, <span data-descr=\"miner revenue per unit of hash power used\" class=\"old_tooltip\">hashprice<\/span> over the past 24 hours fell from $81 per PH per day to $76.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bitcoin-Network-Data-Google-Chrome.webp\" alt=\"Bitcoin-Network-Data-Google-Chrome\" class=\"wp-image-205000\"\/><figcaption>Data: Hashrate Index.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In March, total Bitcoin miner revenues <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-miners-revenue-rose-21-in-march\">rose to $757.8 million<\/a> \u2014 up 21% from February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin mining difficulty rose by 1.72% after another recalculation, reaching a new high at 48.71 T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77592,"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-77591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77591","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=77591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77593,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77591\/revisions\/77593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}