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Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Expected to Drop Significantly, Retarget Could Be 2022’s Largest Reduction

Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Expected to Drop Significantly, Retarget Could Be 2022’s Largest ReductionBitcoin miners could catch a break in a week or so, on or around Dec. 5, 2022, as the next difficulty retarget is expected to see a significantly large reduction. Estimates show the next difficulty retarget could drop anywhere between 6.13% and 10% lower. Presently, the difficulty change looks as though it could be 2022’s […]

Stephen Miran to Lead Trump’s Economic Team: What It Means for Bitcoin’s Future

Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Jumps 3.44% Higher Reaching Another Lifetime High

Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Jumps 3.44% Higher Reaching Another Lifetime HighBitcoin recorded another mining difficulty rise on Sunday, October 23, 2022, at block height 760,032 rising 3.44% higher. This means that not only is it 3.44% harder to find a bitcoin block subsidy, the network’s mining difficulty has also reached another all-time high (ATH) by tapping 36.84 trillion. Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Adjusts Upwards by 3.44%, […]

Stephen Miran to Lead Trump’s Economic Team: What It Means for Bitcoin’s Future

Bitcoin’s Hashrate Remains Stronger Than Ever in the Face of Crypto Winter Prices and Sky High Difficulty

Bitcoin’s Hashrate Remains Stronger Than Ever in the Face of Crypto Winter Prices and Sky High DifficultyDespite the fact that bitcoin miners are getting bare minimums in profits per petahash per second (PH/s), and the myriad of headlines showing specific mining operations folding from the crypto winter, the network’s total hashrate continues to chug along at close to 300 exahash per second (EH/s). With lower bitcoin prices and the mining difficulty […]

Stephen Miran to Lead Trump’s Economic Team: What It Means for Bitcoin’s Future

New Satoshi Notations Discovered, Bitcoin’s Halving Progress, Mad Money’s Cramer Miffed After SEC Filing — Week in Review

New Satoshi Notations Discovered, Bitcoin’s Halving Progress, Mad Money’s Cramer Miffed After SEC Filing — Week in ReviewIn this edition of the Bitcoin.com News week in Review: never-before-seen notations discovered from Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, an update on progress toward the next Bitcoin halving event, Mad Money’s Jim Cramer challenging crypto investors to bet against him, and more. Sleuth Discovers Satoshi’s Long-Lost Bitcoin Version 0.1 Codebase, Raw Code Contains Bitcoin Inventor’s Never-Before-Seen […]

Stephen Miran to Lead Trump’s Economic Team: What It Means for Bitcoin’s Future

Progress Toward Bitcoin’s Halving Is 60% Complete, Block Times Suggest Reduction Could Happen Next Year

Progress Toward Bitcoin’s Halving Is 60% Complete, Block Times Suggest Reduction Could Happen Next YearAccording to countdown statistics based on the average block generation time of around ten minutes, progress toward the next Bitcoin block reward halving has surpassed 60%. However, while most halving countdown clocks leverage the ten-minute average, the countdown leveraging the most current block intervals of around 7:65 minutes shows the halving could occur in 2023. […]

Stephen Miran to Lead Trump’s Economic Team: What It Means for Bitcoin’s Future

Current Block Times and Estimates Suggest Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Is About to Catapult Much Higher

Current Block Times and Estimates Suggest Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Is About to Catapult Much HigherAs bitcoin is coasting along under the $20K region, the network’s hashrate is still riding high at 250.04 exahash per second (EH/s) following the all-time high (ATH) the hashrate tapped on October 5. At the time of writing, the current speed at which blocks are processed is faster than the typical ten-minute average block intervals […]

Stephen Miran to Lead Trump’s Economic Team: What It Means for Bitcoin’s Future

Data Shows Bitcoin’s Hashrate Has Grown by More Than 4 Quadrillion Percent Since 2009

Data Shows Bitcoin’s Hashrate Has Grown by More Than 4 Quadrillion Percent Since 2009Following the network difficulty change six days ago on September 27, Bitcoin’s hashrate surpassed the 295 exahash per second (EH/s) range two times during the first two days of October. Presently the network is coasting along at 229 EH/s and block intervals have been faster than the ten-minute average, which means another upward difficulty adjustment […]

Stephen Miran to Lead Trump’s Economic Team: What It Means for Bitcoin’s Future

While Musk Mentions Doge Improvements, Dogecoin Developers Continue to Address Scaling Concerns

While Musk Mentions Doge Improvements, Dogecoin Developers Continue to Address Scaling ConcernsOn Sunday, Elon Musk discussed his relationship with the Dogecoin Foundation and he mentioned a few improvements he’d like to see implemented via Dogecoin Core’s codebase. Meanwhile, Github metrics show developers have been working on Dogecoin Core during the last few months and it seems Dogecoin software engineers are prepping the network to address fees, […]

Stephen Miran to Lead Trump’s Economic Team: What It Means for Bitcoin’s Future

Bitcoin Hashrate Drops 35% Intraday — Mining Difficulty to Drop by 23%

Bitcoin Hashrate Drops 35% Intraday — Mining Difficulty to Drop by 23%Bitcoin’s hashrate experienced a large drop of almost 35% in a single day. The hashrate plummeted from 108 exahash per second (EH/s) yesterday to today’s 69 EH/s, seeing one of the sharpest declines in the network. This might be a consequence of the situation going on with miners in China. Numbers further estimate a mining […]

Stephen Miran to Lead Trump’s Economic Team: What It Means for Bitcoin’s Future