While Miners Deal With Low BTC Prices, Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Target Expected to Increase 3% višje

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty target is expected to increase on Dec. 19, 2022, after printing the largest reduction recorded in 2022 on Dec. 5, v višini bloka 766,080. Med zadnjim 2,016 bloki, Bitcoin’s hashrate has been around 254.3 exahash na sekundo (EH/s), and block intervals have been faster at 9:41 minutes per block.

Bitcoin’s Difficulty Expected to Jump 3% Higher on Dec. 19, Bitcoin Average Mining Costs Are Higher Than the Current Spot Market Value

V grobem 24 ure, the Bitcoin network will experience another difficulty transition, and this time around it is estimated to increase. The increase is estimated to be around 3.2% do 3.76% higher than the current 34.24 trillion value. The rise would lift the 34.24 trillion to around 35.53 trillion on or around Dec. 19, 2022.

Data shows that while the network’s difficulty is increasing, BTC’s hashrate has been lower than the month prior. Bitcoin’s hashrate did tap a high of 316 EH/s on Dec. 1, 2022. The average block time or block interval is between 9:41 minutes per block to roughly 10:43 minutes per block.

The estimated 3% change is occurring after the last difficulty change which saw a reduction of around 7.32% on Dec. 5, v višini bloka 766,080. The network’s mining difficulty retarget on that day was the largest recorded decrease in 2022. If the estimated increase occurs on Dec. 19, 2022, roughly 3% of the most recent reduction will be erased making it more difficult for miners to find a BTC blok.

During the past three days, Foundry USA has been the Bitcoin network’s top mining pool with 27.05% of the overall hashrate or 66.59 EH/s. Foundryju sledi Antpool (53.51 EH/s), F2pool (35.08 EH/s), Binance Pool (31.51 EH/s), and Viabtc (22 EH/s) oz. 414 block rewards were discovered during the last three days and the top five aforementioned mining pools discovered 351 of those blocks.

dne dec. 17, macromicro.me stats show bitcoin average mining costs based on metrics from Cambridge University, indicating that the cost is around $19,806, in BTC’s price on Dec. 18, is around $16,700 per bitcoin.

What do you think about Bitcoin’s upcoming difficulty retarget on Dec. 19? What do you think about the pressure bitcoin miners are feeling these days from low bitcoin prices? Sporočite nam, kaj mislite o tej temi v spodnjem oddelku za komentarje.

Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman je vodja novic pri Bitcoin-Tidings.com News in finančni novinar, ki živi na Floridi. Redman je od takrat aktiven član skupnosti kriptovalut 2011. Ima strast do bitcoinov, odprtokodna koda, in decentralizirane aplikacije. Od septembra 2015, Redman je napisal več kot 6,000 članki za Bitcoin-Tidings.com Novice o motečih protokolih, ki se pojavljajo danes.

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