Recent data indicates that Bitcoin mining has become more challenging as the network difficulty has increased in the latest adjustment. According to CoinWarz data, Bitcoin’s difficulty has risen in the most recent adjustment. This feature in the Bitcoin blockchain controls the difficulty of mining blocks, measured in hash rate units. The value of this metric changes every two weeks in a network adjustment. The aim of this feature is to maintain the block production time around 10 minutes. In the latest adjustment, the difficulty has significantly increased from 108.1 terahashes to 114.1 terahashes, setting a new record. This 5.6% increase shows the miners’ higher speed in the past two weeks. The hash rate has also reached a new record of 845,200 terahashes per second.
