Bitcoin’s All-Time High Difficulty Challenges Miners as Revenue Falls
On Sept. 10, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty rose 3.58% higher bringing the network’s difficulty to a new all-time high of 92.67 trillion. The news follows Bitcoin’s overall hashrate rising near the 700 exahash per second (E...
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