Bitcoin Hashrate Rises Despite Price Drop, Mystery Hashpower Returns

Bitcoin’s hashrate has increased a great deal, even after the leading crypto assets price slipped below the $50K price zone. Eight days ago the network hashrate was coasting along at 168 eksahas sekundis (EH/s), and this past week it increased 7.73% to today’s 181 EH/s.

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Bitcoin’s Hashrate Climbs Higher Following Difficulty Decrease

Following the price drop under the $50K zone, Bitcoin’s (BTC) hashrate remains strong and has increased more than 7% higher during the last week. Kirjutamise ajal, BTCs hashrate on Sunday is 181.59 EH/s as the networks processing power has been reaching daily highs.

Three month statistics indicate BTCs hashpower tapped 190 EH/s on Friday, detsembril 3. Metrics show that the networks hashrate reached an all-time high on May 9, 2021 juures 191.42 EH/s. One reason the hashrate remains high despite the recent price drop is because the networks mining difficulty has dropped during the last difficulty change on November 28.

The change that day saw BTCs first mining difficulty decrease since July 17. The difficulty dropped seven days ago making it 1.49% less difficult to mine BTC. The current difficulty is 22.34 trillion and at the current rate of processing power, the next difficulty is estimated to increase 1.17% to a possible 22.6 triljonit.

Lähedal 20 Exahash of Stealth Miners Consume a Great Number of Blocks for 50 Days Straight

There are only 13 known pools dedicating SHA256 hashpower to the Bitcoin blockchain and unknown hashrate otherwise known as stealth miners command 11.75% (19.84 EH/s) of the networks hashpower.

Bitmain’s Antpool is the largest miner in terms of network hashpower today with 17.94% (30.28 EH/s) of the hashrate. The second-largest mining pool on December 5 is Foundry USA with 16.49% või 27.84 EH/s of hashpower. Just above Foundry USA is F2pool, which commands 13.20% of hashrate or 22.27 EH/s.

Between mid-October up until now, a sum of unknown hashrate or stealth miners have been very prominent on the network. Sest 50 days straight the unknown hashrate has consumed a great number of BTC plokid.

Since 2009 stealth miners have found 226,000 BTC block rewards and during the last six months 1,957 blocks were discovered by unknown hashrate.

Hashpower that stems from numerous regions worldwide, derives mostly from countries such as the United States, Kasahstan, the Russian Federation, Kanada, Iirimaa, Malaisia, Germany, and Iran.

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