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Data / Mining difficulty / 2018
Bitcoin mining difficulty since 2013, stepping at every retarget.
Mining difficulty opened 2018 at 1.93T (January 1, 2018) and closed at 5.62T (December 31, 2018), up 190.9%. The high was 7.45T on October 4, 2018 and the low 1.93T on January 1, 2018.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2018 | 2.60T |
| February 2018 | 3.01T |
| March 2018 | 3.46T |
| April 2018 | 4.02T |
| May 2018 | 4.31T |
| June 2018 | 5.08T |
| July 2018 | 5.95T |
| August 2018 | 6.73T |
| September 2018 | 7.15T |
| October 2018 | 7.18T |
| November 2018 | 6.65T |
| December 2018 | 5.62T |
Every 2,016 blocks — roughly two weeks — the network resets how hard it is to find a block so that one arrives about every ten minutes. When hashrate has grown, difficulty goes up; when machines switch off, it comes down.
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Also in 2018: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · 200-day and 200-week averages · Network hashrate · Difficulty adjustments · Fees paid to miners · Transactions per day · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · Break-even electricity price · What a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market