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Bitcoin hash rate, mining difficulty, and competition

3+ hour, 23+ min ago  (380+ words) The previous post looked at the Bitcoin network hash rate, currently around one zettahash per second, i.e. 1021 hashes per second. The difficulty of mining a Bitcoin block adjusts over time to keep the rate of block production relatively constant, around one…...