Dossier
mining difficulty
Coverage of mining difficulty in the Nexus archive.
- BIP-110 Bitcoin branch stalls after two blocks as gap widens
The BIP-110 Bitcoin branch stalled after two blocks as a gap widened. Furthermore, the enforcing fork remains stuck at Bitcoin’s full mining difficulty even though mandatory signaling is proceeding with limited hashpower support.
- Bitcoin mining difficulty falls, but projected to rise in next adjustment
Bitcoin mining difficulty has decreased, with an average block time of 9.8 minutes compared to the 10-minute target. However, experts project the difficulty will increase in the next adjustment.