Bitcoin records all-time high network difficulty amid price fluctuations

The Bitcoin web trouble is determined by the wide computational power, which co-relates to the trouble successful confirming transactions and mining BTC. As evidenced by the blockchain.com data, the web trouble saw a downfall betwixt May and July 2021 owed to assorted reasons including a blanket prohibition connected crypto mining from China.

The Bitcoin (BTC) web has recorded a caller all-time precocious mining trouble of 26.643 trillion with an mean hash complaint of 190.71 exahash per 2nd (EH/s) — signaling beardown assemblage enactment contempt an ongoing carnivore market.

BTC web difficulty. Source: Blockchain.com.

However, arsenic the displaced miners resumed operations from different countries, the web trouble saw a drastic betterment since August 2021. As a result, connected Jan. 22, the BTC web recorded an ATH of 26.643 trillion. 

Data from BTC.com estimates that the web volition proceed to turn stronger by attaining different ATH successful the adjacent 12 days — with a web trouble of 26.70 trillion.

Estimated BTC web trouble successful the adjacent 12 days. Source: BTC.com.

In the past 4 days, F2Pool has been the highest contributor to the hash complaint by mining 88 BTC blocks, followed by Poolin astatine 76 blocks. As of yesterday, the mean interest per transaction is astir $1.58, a worth that historically peaked astatine $62.78 backmost successful Apr. 2021.

Related: Bitcoin could outperform stocks successful 2022 amid Fed tightening — Bloomberg analyst

Despite the national unit for tighter monetary policies astir cryptocurrencies, Bloomberg commodity strategist Mike McGlone suggests that BTC has a warring accidental to travel retired connected apical arsenic investors admit its worth arsenic a integer reserve asset.

As Cointelegraph reported, McGlone believes Bitcoin is successful a unsocial presumption to outperform successful an situation wherever stimulus simplification is usually considered antagonistic for hazard assets:

“Cryptos are tops among the risky and speculative. If hazard assets decline, it helps the Fed's ostentation fight. Becoming a planetary reserve asset, Bitcoin whitethorn beryllium a superior beneficiary successful that scenario.”