{"id":88622,"date":"2023-12-23T19:35:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T17:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88622"},"modified":"2025-09-13T19:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:11:28","slug":"bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-a-new-high-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-a-new-high-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin mining difficulty hits a new high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of another adjustment <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-hashrate-and-mining-difficulty-in-cryptocurrencies\">the mining difficulty<\/a> of the first cryptocurrency rose by 7%. The metric reached a new high at 72.01 T.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-23-v-19.00.28-1024x664.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-23-v-19.00.28\" class=\"wp-image-222742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-23-v-19.00.28-1024x664.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-23-v-19.00.28-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-23-v-19.00.28-768x498.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-23-v-19.00.28-1536x996.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-23-v-19.00.28-2048x1329.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 stood at 512.55 EH\/s. The interval between blocks was under 9.5 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 22 the smoothed seven-day moving average stood at 521 EH\/s. As of writing, it stands at 533 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-7-1024x576.png\" alt=\"glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-hash-rate-7d-moving-average-7\" class=\"wp-image-222743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-hash-rate-7d-moving-average-7-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-hash-rate-7d-moving-average-7-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-hash-rate-7d-moving-average-7-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-hash-rate-7d-moving-average-7-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-hash-rate-7d-moving-average-7.png 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: Glassnode.<\/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 hash power\" class=\"old_tooltip\">\u0445\u0435\u0448\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0439\u0441<\/span> stands at $92 per PH.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-23-v-19.27.09-1024x679.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-23-v-19.27.09\" class=\"wp-image-222744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-23-v-19.27.09-1024x679.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-23-v-19.27.09-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-23-v-19.27.09-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-23-v-19.27.09-1536x1019.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-23-v-19.27.09.png 1914w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: Hashrate Index.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In December, HIVE Digital Technologies <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hive-digital-technologies-buys-7000-antminer-s21-miners-from-bitmain\">announced the purchase of<\/a> 7000 Antminer S21 from the Chinese manufacturer Bitmain.<\/p>\n<p>From January 1, 2024, amendments to the tax code aimed at <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/kazakhstan-lowers-tariffs-for-bitcoin-miners\">reducing the financial burden<\/a> on mining enterprises will come into force in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of another adjustment, the mining difficulty of the first cryptocurrency rose by 7%. The metric reached a new high at 72.01 T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88623,"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-88622","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":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88622","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=88622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88624,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88622\/revisions\/88624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}