The Bitcoin mining difficulty has reached a new all time high of 52,699,842,409. This represents an increase of 0.81% over July 25th's difficulty of 52,278,304,846. Today's change also marks the second time this year that the mining difficulty has increased for the third consecutive time, last occurring during the February 9th, February 22nd and March 8th adjustments. One must look back to 2014 to find more than four consecutive increases at which time double digit adjustments were common, something which is yet to occur in 2015.