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9 Bitcoin difficulty jumps 15% largest increase since 2021, despite price slump

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James Van Straten @ CoinDesk 1 place · today 01:43 EDT

Bitcoin difficulty jumps 15% largest increase since 2021, despite price slump

Bitcoin difficulty rebounds to 144.4T as hashrate recovers to 1 ZH/s despite multi year low hashprice.

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