As a result of another allocation of the complexity of bitcoin mining on the night of 14 January, this figure rose to almost 5%.

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The difficulty of mining is a parameter blockchain network, showing how difficult it is to produce a mathematical calculation for finding the new block, respectively, to obtain a reward.

Meanwhile, Hasrat bitcoin over the last month showed some impressive spurts. So, on January 8 this figure was 47 EH/s, but today was in the area 37 EH/s.

Data blockchain.com

Previous recalculation of difficulty occurred on the night of 1 January, when the rate also increased by 10%.

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