Bitcoin mining has become 3.26% easier as the difficulty level decreased on June 28. This adjustment was unexpected, as it was anticipated to increase due to higher hashrates and faster block intervals. However, a decrease in hashrate and slower block intervals caused the difficulty to drop. The total hashrate has even dipped below 300 exahash per second twice in the past two weeks. The upcoming difficulty retarget is scheduled for July 13. The block interval time is currently longer than the usual ten-minute average, indicating that another decrease may occur on July 13. Foundry USA is the leading mining pool, contributing 117.21 EH/s, followed by Antpool, F2pool, Binance Pool, Viabtc, Luxor, and SBI Crypto. Currently, 41 mining pools are dedicating hashrate to the Bitcoin network.
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