Bitcoin’s First Post-Halving Adjustment Raises Mining Difficulty to Record High
Bitcoin recently completed its first difficulty adjustment following the fourth halving, recording a 1.99% increase and pushing the mining difficulty to a record high. The network’s difficulty level rose from 86.39 trill...
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