Mining Difficulty Reaches New High

Today sees the Bitcoin network enter new territory with the mining difficulty advancing to 51,076,366,303, crossing the 50 billion difficulty mark for the first time in its history. Today's increase represents a 3.39% increase over June 28th's difficulty of 49,402,014,931.

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  1. I find this especially remarkable considering that this period large portions of mining power were off building orphaned chains for hours at a time.

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