{"id":88081,"date":"2023-12-10T15:36:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T13:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88081"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:50:37","slug":"bitcoin-mining-difficulty-edges-down-slightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-edges-down-slightly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin mining difficulty edges down slightly"},"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\">mining difficulty<\/a> of the first cryptocurrency declined by 1%. The figure stood at 67.31 T.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-72-1024x549.png\" alt=\"111-72\" class=\"wp-image-221793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-72-1024x549.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-72-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-72-768x411.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-72-1536x823.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-72-2048x1097.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/explorer.btc.com\/btc\/insights-difficulty\">BTC.com<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The average hash rate over the period since the previous adjustment was 480 EH\/s. The inter-block interval was just over 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>, on December 9 the smoothed 7-day moving average reached 483 EH\/s. At the time of writing it stands at 485.9 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\/22-22-1024x576.png\" alt=\"22-22\" class=\"wp-image-221794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-22-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-22-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-22-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-22-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-22.png 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: Glassnode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Hashrate Index, <span data-descr=\"miners' revenue per unit of spent computing power\" class=\"old_tooltip\">hashprice<\/span> stands at $93.1 per PH.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-10-v-13.59.23-1024x674.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-10-v-13.59.23\" class=\"wp-image-221795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-10-v-13.59.23-1024x674.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-10-v-13.59.23-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-10-v-13.59.23-768x505.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-10-v-13.59.23-1536x1011.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-10-v-13.59.23.png 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: Hashrate Index.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In late November, the mining company Bitfarms <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitfarms-to-acquire-bitmain-bitcoin-miners-for-95-5-million\">placed an order<\/a> for 35,888 Antminer T21 devices from Bitmain at $2,660 per unit.<\/p>\n<p>In December it emerged that the American company Riot Platforms <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/riot-platforms-to-buy-66560-asic-miners-from-microbt-for-290-million\">will acquire 66,560 miners<\/a> from MicroBT with a total hash rate of 18 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, Phoenix Group announced <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/phoenix-group-seals-380m-deal-with-microbt\">a $380 million contract<\/a>. The deal primarily contemplates the acquisition of water-cooled devices worth $136 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the latest recalculation, the mining difficulty of the first cryptocurrency declined by 1%. The figure stood at 67.31 T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88082,"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-88081","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":"26","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88081","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=88081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88083,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88081\/revisions\/88083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}