hashrate bumped to a new all-time high on 11th April as miners pressed their machines into full strength to boost revenues ahead of the halving.
The 7-day moving average of hash rate, used for measuring the total computational power invested by miners, hit 642 exahashes per second on 11th April, according to Hashrate Index, representing a 5% increase over the week.The increase in hash rate came as a likely response to the latest adjustment which pushed Bitcoin’s mining difficulty to its ATH of 86.39 trillion.
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty reflects how tough it is for miners to find the next Bitcoin block in the chain. It is adjusted every 2.016 blocks, or roughly two weeks, to ensure block production time remains at 10 minutes. The higher the difficulty, the harder it is to find a block, and hence, more hash rate need to be dedicated.
This was the last adjustment before the pivotal halving event, scheduled tentatively for 2oth April, which would slash mining rewards by half. In an industry with thinning profit margins, such occurrences end up exerting considerable financial stress to the participants.Typically, smaller players with less capital to afford efficient mining equipment could be the first to capitulate.
The total revenue raked in by miners on the 11th of April was close to $69 million, as per AMBCrypto’s analysis of Glassnode’s data, 70% higher than same time last year.Jibin Mathew George is Editor-in-Chief at AMBCrypto. A domain expert in International Relations , he has always been a believer in the unlimited possibilities afforded by blockchain and by extension, cryptocurrencies.
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