Hashrate Approaches Record High as Bitcoin Price Drives Mining Gains
Bitcoin’s hashrate has been climbing steadily, with the network adding 40 exahash per second (EH/s) over the past five days, reaching 836 EH/s—edging close to the protocol’s historical peak. In addition, as bitcoin’s pri...
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