Data shows the Bitcoin Difficulty is set to see a jump of around 5% in the coming network adjustment, making miners’ job tougher than ever before.

Bitcoin Difficulty Is Estimated To See A Notable Spike In Next Adjustment

According to data from CoinWarz , the Bitcoin Difficulty is heading toward its fifth consecutive increase. The Difficulty refers to a metric built into the BTC blockchain that controls how hard it is for miners to find the task of mining on the network.

The feature exists for one purpose: to limit how fast miners perform their duty. This may sound strange at first since miners being able to process transactions faster should be a positive from a BTC-as-a-mode-of-payment perspective, but the cryptocurrency’s creator Satoshi made the feature with another goal in con

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