Bitcoins Hashrate Jumps 15% Higher in 10 Days, Mining Difficulty Expected to Rise – Mining Bitcoin News - BitcoinEthereumNews.com
After bitcoin miners caught a break ten days ago when the difficulty dropped 1.49% lower, the networks hashrate increased more than 15% since then. Currently, the processing power has been coasting along above the 200 exahash per second (EH/s) zone but another difficulty increase is expected to occur in less than four days. Bitcoins Hashrate Increases Following the Downward Difficulty Drop 10 Days Ago Bitcoins hashrate slipped two weeks ago on February 27, 2022, to 169 EH/s after touching an all-time high (249 EH/s) on February 15. Following the drop in processing power, bitcoin miners caught a break when the difficulty decreased for the first time in months. On March 3, the difficulty dropped 1.49% lower after six consecutive difficulty increases prior. Currently, Bitcoins mining difficulty is 27.55 trillion and following the last adjustment, processing power has improved. Bitcoin hashrate six-month statistics, according to coinwarz.com on March 13, 2022. Bitcoin‘s hashrate increased over 15% since the difficulty change and 29% since the hashrate hit 169 EH/s two weeks ago. Currently, the network’s processing power is roughly 218.11 EH/s and over the last ten days its managed to stay above the 200 EH/s range. However, the next epoch mining difficulty adjustment is slated to happen in less