Bitcoin difficulty established for a 4% jump after the hashrate explosion

The data in the chain shows that bitcoin's difficulty increases by about 4% in the next adjustment, as a result of the increase in hashrado.

bitcoin's mining difficulty will jump on Sunday

According to data from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/difficulty-chart” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow”>CoinwarzThe btc network is configured to increase the difficulty in the following adjustment. The “difficulty” here refers to an integrated metric in the bitcoin block chain that controls how hard miners would find to extract a block. This feature exists to restrict how long the miners take to find the following block.

Every time miners extract a block, they harvest a reward associated with it known as block subsidy. This reward serves as the only possible way to produce more than the asset, so when controlling the rhythm at which miners can receive it, cryptocurrency inflation can be controlled.

As is common knowledge, miners in the bitcoin network require computer energy to perform their mining task. This total computer power held by validators is known as the “hashrate.”

Every time the miners increase the hashrate, they become faster in their task and produce blocks at a faster rate. As explained above, the network does not want this to happen, so what it does is that it increases the difficulty enough for the miners to return to the standard network rhythm, which is a block every 10 minutes.

Similarly, if miners reduce hashrada, the chain responds down the difficulty. All these changes related to metric take place every two weeks during automatic network settings.

Below are the relevant data related to how the block chain is searching in the following adjustment of this type, which should be this Sunday.

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Looks like the block time has been 9.60 mins on average in this period | Source: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/difficulty-chart" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">CoinWarz

As is visible, the average block time since the last difficulty adjustment has been 9.60 minutes, which is clearly lower than the 10 minutes that the network points. Therefore, to slow down the validators, the chain will raise the difficulty in more than 4%.

The reason behind the low block time lies in the explosion that the hashrate has seen, as the average value of 7 days of the metric from Blockchain.com shows.

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The value of the metric appears to have spiked in recent days | Source: Blockchain.com

From the graph, it is evident that the average bitcoin hashrate of 7 days established a new historical maximum (ATH) only a couple of days ago. Since then, the indicator has seen a setback, but its value remains quite close to this record. If the difficulty increases by 4%, since it is seen at this time, it would also establish a new ATH.

btc price

At the time of writing this article, bitcoin quote around $ 97,000, more than 6% during the last week.

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The price of the coin seems to haven't moved much in the last few days | Source: BTCUSDT on TradingView

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