All eyes are on bitcoin at the moment. The cryptocurrency has staged a meteoric rise in 2017 that has attracted new investors, but, for many, question marks still surround bitcoin and the technology ...

Think about cryptocurrency mining in terms of being a part of a humongous global puzzle game. Millions of computers scattered across the globe are racing each other to solve the puzzles first and ...

Bitcoin's mining difficulty has hit a new all-time high of 142.3 trillion, marking a 29.6% increase since the beginning of the year. Mining difficulty is an average measure of how many hash functions ...

Bitcoin mining now demands more computational power than ever before, with mining difficulty on the network reaching an all-time high after the most recent recalibration. Mining difficulty, which ebbs ...

How unlikely was it for one solo miner to beat the odds and win a Bitcoin block? On June 5, 2025, a solo miner pulled off what most would call impossible: solving a Bitcoin block alone and earning ...

Bitcoin mining difficulty – a measure of how hard it is to compete for block rewards – has neared an all-time high in the network’s last adjustment before the halving happens in roughly seven days.

Mining difficulty on the Bitcoin BTC $92,342.67 blockchain is on course to drop by the most since July 2021 after the amount of mining power securing the network slid about 30% in two weeks. According ...

Bitcoin mining difficulty spiked by 15%, making it hard for miners with old equipment to compete for block rewards Mining difficulty is adjusted roughly every 14 days Mining difficulty is expected to ...

Mining difficulty on the Bitcoin network increased by 9.32% and hit an all-time high of 26.64 trillion on Jan. 21, at 3:07 UTC, beating the previous record set on May 13, 2021. The difficulty is ...

The recent bitcoin boom has not just earned money for traders - miners extracting the virtual currency by using powerful computers to solve mathematical equations have also been cashing in. A bitcoin ...