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Data / Mining difficulty / 2020
Bitcoin mining difficulty since 2013, stepping at every retarget.
Mining difficulty opened 2020 at 13.80T (January 1, 2020) and closed at 18.60T (December 31, 2020), up 34.8%. The high was 20.00T on October 17, 2020 and the low 13.73T on June 4, 2020.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2020 | 15.47T |
| February 2020 | 15.49T |
| March 2020 | 13.91T |
| April 2020 | 15.96T |
| May 2020 | 15.14T |
| June 2020 | 15.78T |
| July 2020 | 16.85T |
| August 2020 | 17.56T |
| September 2020 | 19.31T |
| October 2020 | 20.00T |
| November 2020 | 19.16T |
| December 2020 | 18.60T |
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 2020: 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