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Data / Mining difficulty / 2019
Bitcoin mining difficulty since 2013, stepping at every retarget.
Mining difficulty opened 2019 at 5.62T (January 1, 2019) and closed at 12.95T (December 31, 2019), up 130.5%. The high was 13.69T on October 23, 2019 and the low 5.62T on January 1, 2019.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2019 | 5.81T |
| February 2019 | 6.07T |
| March 2019 | 6.38T |
| April 2019 | 6.35T |
| May 2019 | 7.46T |
| June 2019 | 7.93T |
| July 2019 | 9.01T |
| August 2019 | 10.18T |
| September 2019 | 12.76T |
| October 2019 | 13.69T |
| November 2019 | 12.97T |
| December 2019 | 12.95T |
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 2019: 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