Miners’ machines seem to be on and hard at work as mining Bitcoin (BTC) is about to get more difficult – reaching a brand new all-time high, thus increasing operational costs to mine the coin. Two industry players weighed in on what might come next. Bitcoin mining difficulty, which is the measure of how hard it is to compete for mining rewards, is about to reach two milestones: an all-time high, and stepping into the never-before-seen 17 T territory. The mining difficulty, if the current estimations by mining pool BTC.com come true, will rise 8.92% in little less than three days – completely skipping over the 16 T range this time, and climbing to 17.19 T. This follows an unchanged difficulty level during the previous adjustment, and the highest jump in two years recorded in mid-June, which
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