Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Breaks the Longest Gain Streak Since 2018
Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficultly dropped this past Sunday for the first time in four months. Bitcoin mining difficulty, or the measure of how hard it is to compete for mining rewards, went down by 1.49%. This relatively...
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Bitcoin mining difficulty, or the measure of how hard it is to compete for mining rewards, went down by 1.49%. This relatively small drop is significant nonetheless as it’s the first one since the end of July this year.
The difficulty had seen a long streak of nine consecutive increases, starting July 31 – the longest such streak since 2018....
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