10% Difficulty Change, Hashrate Tokens Still Suck and Catching Up With Mining Legend BBT

Published: Tue, 01/17/23

January 17, 2023
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Bitcoin difficulty rises 10% to highest value ever

Bitcoin’s self-referential difficulty adjustment kicked into gear Sunday with a 10.2% increase. The change followed a -3% drawdown two weeks previously, on January 2. At 37.59 T, Bitcoin’s difficulty is now again at an all time high.
 

Hashprice–a metric for assigning revenue per unit of hashrate–briefly set a three month record at $0.076/TH before dropping to $0.071/TH Monday, according to Hashrate Index. Hashprice is up 20% since January 1.
 

The price pump is a welcome site following three months of consistent price drops and unfavorable difficulty swings. Outside of December’s -7.3% downwing–the largest in 2022 brought on by a cold snap in Texas–difficulty has been up and to the right.

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Bitcoin hashrate tokens are still a mess

Tokenized Bitcoin hashrate products were a prominent novelty during the 2020-2022 cryptocurrency bull market. Despite their best efforts to push forward the financialization of Bitcoin mining, these tokens continue to prove their immaturity and leave much to be desired.

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Chart of the Week

ASIC prices are creeping back up following months of downward pressure from Bitcoin's falling price. ASIC prices typically lag Bitcoin's price by a few weeks.

Today we are re-joined by Bitcoin mining OG Michael Carter (BitsBeTrippin). We talk about the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, deploying hashrate and ASIC prices.

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*As of Tuesday, January 17

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