Following the largest difficulty increase the Bitcoin network has seen in 2022, the network’s hashrate has not been affected by the 13.55% increase. In fact, five days ago at block height 758,138, the network’s computational power surpassed the all-time high (ATH) recorded on October 5, as it reached 325.11 exahash per second (EH/s) on October 11. Moreover, block generation intervals have been less than ten minutes per block, which means another notable difficulty increase is expected to happen on October 23. 325 EH/s — Bitcoin’s Hashrate Taps Another ATH Following the Last Difficulty Retarget It’s been six days since Bitcoin’s last difficulty retarget, which saw the largest rise this year when the metric jumped 13.55% higher than the difficulty setting codified 2,016 blocks before block 758,016. Despite the difficulty increase and bitcoin’s ( BTC ) U.S. dollar value sliding to $18,183 on October 13, the network’s computational power has remained red-hot as another all-time high
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