{"id":691118,"date":"2025-09-20T22:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-paints-new-ath-amid-centralization-fears\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T22:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:00:47","slug":"bitcoin-mining-difficulty-paints-new-ath-amid-centralization-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-paints-new-ath-amid-centralization-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin mining difficulty paints new ATH amid centralization fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDcvMDE5N2Q0NzMtNDU3OS03YjJhLWI4MzItNTYzOGFkMWRkNjJj.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>The rising network difficulty and the need to pay for energy are pushing out smaller players and even publicly traded corporations.<\/p>\n<p><p>The Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty, a metric that tracks the relative challenge of adding new blocks to the ledger, climbed to a new all-time high of 142.3 trillion on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Mining difficulty hit successive all-time highs in August and September, driven by an influx of freshly deployed computing power over the last several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s hashrate, the average of the total computing power securing the decentralized monetary protocol, also hit an all-time high of over 1.1 trillion hashes per second on Friday, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoquant.com\/asset\/btc\/chart\/network-stats\/hashrate?window=DAY&amp;priceScale=log&amp;metricScale=linear&amp;chartStyle=line&amp;sma=0&amp;ema=0\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"null\">CryptoQuant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" >General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-all-time-high-centralization-fear?utm_source=rss_feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rising network difficulty and the need to pay for energy are pushing out smaller players and even publicly traded corporations. The Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty, a metric that tracks the relative challenge of adding new blocks to the ledger, climbed to a new all-time high of 142.3 trillion on Friday. 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