The rise from 1 to 148 trillion does not block participation, it measures how much total computational power is competing at any moment. Each major jump in difficulty aligns with real-world changes: ...

Since Bitcoin’s inception, network difficulty has grown from 1 to as much as 48.71 trillion hashes that a miner would theoretically need to generate to find the winning one. This means it is 48.71 ...

Bitcoin mining difficulty closed 2025 near record levels and is expected to climb again in January as faster block times trigger an upward adjustment. The Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, the ...

A Bitcoin miner secured a $330,000 block reward despite network difficulty surging to a record 126.98 trillion. A solo Bitcoin miner successfully mined block 899,826, earning a reward worth $330,386, ...