Bitcoin minef incoming: the difficulty falls 2.6% on Sunday

The data in the chain show that bitcoin miners will have an easier time from Sunday, since the difficulty of the network is configured to see a correction.

bitcoin's mining difficulty will fall into the next adjustment

The “difficulty” refers to an integrated feature in the bitcoin block chain that controls how hard miners would find to extract a block on the network. The value of the metric changes every two weeks in events known as adjustments.

The adjustments are fully controlled by the cryptocurrency code, which means that no human decides how to change the difficulty in such an event. Satoshi wrote in a simple guide for the network to follow when making adjustments: the block time, the average amount of time that the miners take to extract a block, must remain constant at 10 minutes.

This means that every time miners mine at a faster speed than this standard, the block chain responds with an increase in difficulty in the following adjustment. In the same way, it facilitates mining if miners take more than 10 minutes per block.

Now, this is what data from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/difficulty-chart” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow”>Coinwarz He says that the statistics of the bitcoin Network have been searching for the next adjustment, which will be launched live this Sunday:

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Looks like the chain has been performing slower than intended recently | Source: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/difficulty-chart" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">CoinWarz

As is visible above, the bitcoin block time has been averaged at 10.27 minutes from the last adjustment, which means that the miners have been slower than the block chain requires.

In order for the validators of the chain to put at speed again, btc will decrease its difficulty by around 2.6%. Keep in mind that this value is just an expectation based on block time so far; The real value may be different depending on how miners work in the next two days.

These last two weeks the miners have had to face the difficulty of the most difficult network in history, since the previous adjustment brought the metric to a new maximum of all time (ATH) with a strong jump.

Below is a table that shows all the changes that the indicator has passed during the last six months.

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The Difficulty is currently sitting at an ATH | Source: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/difficulty-chart" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">CoinWarz

The miners become 'faster' or 'slower' when they change the amount of computer power that have connected to the network. This collective power of miners is known as the hashrat.

The next change in difficulty is also in response to such a change in hashrate. Here is a chart of Blockchain.comwhich shows the trend in the average value of 7 days of the metric during the last year:

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Looks like the value of the metric has been climbing up in recent days | Source: Blockchain.com

As is evident in the graphic, bitcoin hashrate increased to an ATH at the beginning of the month, which led to the network to bring difficulty to a new ATH too. However, after this peak, the metric observed a fall, so the miners have been slower in recent weeks.

The hashrate has been going up once again in recent days and it is possible that the increase is only once the difficulty decreases on Sunday.

btc price

At the time of writing, bitcoin quote around $ 96,900, about 2% in the last week.

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The price of the coin seems to have plunged in the past day | Source: BTCUSDT on TradingView

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