Uncharted Territory: Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Reaches New Extremes
Bitcoin’s difficulty has soared once again at block height 866,880, reaching a record-breaking 95.67 trillion. Meanwhile, the network’s computational power is keeping pace, operating at a blazing 729.13 exahash per secon...
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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