The difficulty of mining $BTC has decreased for the second adjustment in a row
On January 22, the Bitcoin network experienced another change in mining difficulty — the indicator decreased by 3.28% and amounted to 141.67 trillion. This is already the second consecutive decrease in difficulty: during the previous recalculation, it decreased by 1.2%.
Against the backdrop of decreasing difficulty, the total hashrate of the network remains at a high level. As of the time of publication, it is maintained above the mark of 1 ZH/s. According to data from the analytical platform Glassnode, the smoothed seven-day moving average is around 1.01 ZH/s. Meanwhile, on January 17, the hashrate dropped to a local minimum of 977 EH/s.
The largest participant by share in the global hashrate remains the mining pool Foundry USA, controlling 31.1% of the network's computational power. In second place is AntPool with a share of 15.6%, and third place is held by F2Pool, which accounts for 9.8% of the hashrate.
At the same time, according to the Hashrate Index service, the hashrate price — the profitability of mining per unit of computational power — is $38.4 per PH/s per day. For comparison, in mid-January this figure reached around $42, indicating a slight decrease in miners' incomes.
Against the backdrop of the current situation in the network, rare cases of successful solo mining continue to be recorded. Thus, on January 20, a solo miner mined block #933034 in the Bitcoin network, receiving a reward of 3.131 BTC, which at that time corresponded to approximately $289,000.
