3 Bitcoin Mining Records Set in October — BTC Hash Price Taps Lifetime Low, While Hashrate and Difficulty Surged
This month bitcoin’s hash price tapped an all-time low of $66,500 per exahash on Oct. 25, according to statistics from the onchain market intelligence firm Glassnode. Alongside this, the network’s mining difficulty reached a lifetime high at 36.84 trillion on Oct. 23. Despite the high mining difficulty and the lower prices , Bitcoin’s total hashrate reached an all -time high at 325.11 exahash per second (EH/s) as 4,578 blocks were generated during the past 30 days. Bitcoin Hash Price Sinks, Hashrate Taps a Lifetime High, Difficulty Reaches New Heights While the month of October did see an “Uptober,” as far as 30-day percentage gains are concerned, the month also saw a few mining records. The most notable was the all-time hashrate high recorded at block height 758,138, when Bitcoin’s (BTC) total hashrate reached 325.11 EH/s. Bitcoin’s hashrate reached a lifetime high in October, touching 325.11 EH/s on Oct. 10, 2022, at block height...