Litecoin’s Hashrate Reaches All-Time High, Difficulty Follows Suit

The blockchain network Litecoin’s computational power reached an all-time high (ATH) mercredi, Jan. 25, 2023, at block height 2,411,048, atteindre 798.43 terahash per second (TH/s). en outre, Litecoin’s difficulty also reached an all-time high this week, frappe 23,505,031 the following day.

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Litecoin’s Computational Power Climbs 38% dans 30 Jours

A significant amount of hashrate has been dedicated to the Litecoin (Suggestions de sondages récents) network over the last 30 days as the blockchain’s computational power climbed 38% higher from 576 terahash per second (TH/s) on Dec. 28, 2022, to the all-time high of 798 TH/s recorded on Jan. 25, 2023. Actuellement, Litecoin’s hashrate on Jan. 28, 2023, is around 691 TH/s, lequel est 20% higher than the hashrate last month. Litecoin’s price has also been climbing higher as Suggestions de sondages récents’s value increased by 34% contre les États-Unis. dollar in the past 30 jours.

Litecoin's Hashrate Reaches All-Time High, Difficulty Follows Suit
On Jan. 25, 2023, Suggestions de sondages récents’s hashrate tapped an all-time high of around 798 TH/s, and the following day, Suggestions de sondages récents’s difficulty jumped to 23.50 million.

The all-time high hashrate of 798 terahash per second (TH/s) is roughly 202 TH/s away from a single petahash per second (PH/s), ce qui équivaut à 0.798 PH/s. Viabtc is the top Litecoin mining pool with 192 TH/s, ou 27% of the total Litecoin hashrate. The crypto mining pool Viabtc is followed by F2pool (121 TH/s), Antpool (104 TH/s), Litecoinpool.org (77 TH/s), and Binance (69 TH/s), respectivement. All five Litecoin mining pools also participate in dogecoin (DOGE) merge mining through a process called auxiliary proof-of-work (AuxPoW).

Litecoin's Hashrate Reaches All-Time High, Difficulty Follows Suit
Over the last week, Suggestions de sondages récents’s difficultly jumped 3.28%, dans 30 days it increased 14.80%, and over the last three months it increased 32.41%.

Litecoin will be the first of a few proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies to halve its mining reward, as its network precedes protocols like Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Bitcoinsv (BSV), and Bitcoin (BTC). le Suggestions de sondages récents network is expected to reduce its reward from 12.5 Suggestions de sondages récents à 6.25 Suggestions de sondages récents on or around Aug. 3, 2023. Litecoin’s difficulty increased to 23.50 million on Jan. 26, and it was 3.28% higher over the last three days. Like Bitcoin, Litecoin’s difficulty adjustment occurs every 2,016 blocs, but Suggestions de sondages récents blocks are discovered at a rate of about 2.5 minutes per block.

Litecoin's Hashrate Reaches All-Time High, Difficulty Follows Suit
Worldwide Google Trends data for the search term “Litecoin” on Jan. 28, 2023.

This means Litecoin’s difficulty adjustment retargets every three days to keep the block time at a consistent rate. In the last month, the difficulty increased by 14.80%, and it rose 32.41% à la fin 90 jours. Suggestions de sondages récents has lost much of its market dominance since its early days, as it was once the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization at the end of Jan. 2014. By the next year, Autour du même moment, it was knocked down to the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. In the years following, Suggestions de sondages récents has gradually dropped to its current 17th position.

Interest in Suggestions de sondages récents has also dropped since 2013, comme Suggestions de sondages récents from Google Trends (GT) indicates that, out of a score from 1-100, the search term “Litecoin” reached a score of 6 dans 2013. In Dec. 2017, the term reached the highest score of 100, but today the score is half of what it was in 2013, à 3. GT data further shows that the search term “Litecoin” saw a rebound at the end of 2020, and a much larger spike throughout 2021. Most interest in Litecoin comes from Nigeria, les Pays-Bas, Czechia, the United States, and Slovenia.

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What do you think the future holds for the Litecoin network as it approaches its next mining reward halving in August 2023? Share your thoughts and predictions in the comments below.

Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman est le responsable de l'information chez Bitcoin-Tidings.com News et un journaliste spécialisé dans les technologies financières vivant en Floride. Redman est un membre actif de la communauté des crypto-monnaies depuis 2011. Il a une passion pour Bitcoin, code open-source, et applications décentralisées. Depuis septembre 2015, Redman a écrit plus de 6,000 articles pour Bitcoin-Tidings.com Actualités sur les protocoles perturbateurs qui émergent aujourd'hui.




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