While, two weeks ago, it was estimated that Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty might drop by 16%, it just became more difficult by 5.77 % today, as more miners turned their machines on in the past two weeks.

The mining difficulty (used as a measure for how hard it is to compete for mining rewards) now stands at 14.7 T, or almost at the level, it was in the second half of January,

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