{"id":85295,"date":"2023-10-03T17:15:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T14:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85295"},"modified":"2025-09-12T22:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:24:26","slug":"bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-a-new-all-time-high-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-a-new-all-time-high-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin mining difficulty hits a new all-time high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following another recalculation <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-hashrate-and-mining-difficulty-in-cryptocurrencies\">mining difficulty<\/a> of the first cryptocurrency rose by a modest 0.35%. The metric reached a peak at 57.32 T.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/ImEbDdHDRIAyogsIjaDfCgWo2qh8VgwYAsIjjZf8iJKH-lqwp5Xn4hkOFzADKUVuCrwqOi-OOqTfiJ_eVXFul2OtFJgOrJw5GQpff4-yu2OS7pj1hgldiubGqsUPf_VoKKx6yA95bt2uvPYMEKgbjko\" 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 \u0441\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u043e\u0431\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043b\u0430 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u043c\u0430\u043a\u0441\u0438\u043c\u0443\u043c\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u0414\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435: <a href=\"https:\/\/explorer.btc.com\/btc\/insights-difficulty\">BTC.com<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The average hash rate over the period <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-a-new-all-time-high-4\">since the previous adjustment<\/a> stood at 410.27 EH\/s. The interval between blocks was the protocol\u2019s intended 10 minutes.<\/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 seven-day moving average on September 20 reached a high of 427.15 EH\/s. Since then it has corrected and, at the time of writing, stood at 414.55 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/UhapzxEKPK6Mv0heriTeCNy_jsyaARotaT7kW6qBJ6zwb8kjrrpzyiRSqlBJNWjIUmbMdZiNfBfbWtFeLHqgbrdcMSgfkROXVwF2lqb9B-KB7qZsm8WtoiygLBR1mgP_-QHM4BoUqxNJU5jNcIFp4os\" 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 \u0441\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u043e\u0431\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043b\u0430 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u043c\u0430\u043a\u0441\u0438\u043c\u0443\u043c\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u0414\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435: Hashrate Index.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/data.hashrateindex.com\/network-data\/btc\">Hashrate Index<\/a>, <span data-descr=\"miner revenue per unit of hashing power\" class=\"old_tooltip\">hashprice<\/span> stands at $62.24 per PH\/s per day. Compared with the value on the date of the last difficulty adjustment (~$65.5), the metric has fallen by about 5%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/828I5xtQgoOVJeA-2hqHuYxvLi-xTG9ITRngoQkYKzfvznnArja4DKyG1KnmqINWXhthPW8_dp3Micr6hdTJ-ClAfXGqh6jEClEZlob4TBIwVh2dyb9qW27zXFFNqb2B2H7S2hvTfDTGJSB5UYF8mHE\" 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 \u0441\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u043e\u0431\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043b\u0430 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u043c\u0430\u043a\u0441\u0438\u043c\u0443\u043c\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u0414\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435: Hashrate Index.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On October 2, as the first cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-clears-the-28000-level\">surpassed the $28,000 level<\/a>, the metric recorded a daily hashprice of $63.75 per PH\/s, the highest in almost two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, JPMorgan <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/jpmorgan-estimates-the-average-cost-of-mining-bitcoin\">lowered the estimate<\/a> of the cost of mining Bitcoin. The move followed a revision by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance of the methodology for the electricity consumption index in mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following another recalculation, the mining difficulty of the first cryptocurrency rose by a modest 0.35%. The metric reached a peak at 57.32 T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85296,"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-85295","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":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85295","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=85295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85297,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85295\/revisions\/85297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}