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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Posts Second-Biggest Percentage Drop in Its History

Competition among Bitcoin miners has eased as the recent price drop thinned the herd, fresh data shows.

Updated Sep 14, 2021, 8:22 a.m. Published Mar 26, 2020, 3:26 a.m.
Source: Coin Metrics; difficulty recorded at last block mined at the beginning of each 2-wk period; data as of March 26, 2020
Source: Coin Metrics; difficulty recorded at last block mined at the beginning of each 2-wk period; data as of March 26, 2020