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Data / Mining difficulty / 2022
Bitcoin mining difficulty since 2013, stepping at every retarget.
Mining difficulty opened 2022 at 24.27T (January 1, 2022) and closed at 35.36T (December 31, 2022), up 45.7%. The high was 36.95T on November 20, 2022 and the low 24.27T on January 1, 2022.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2022 | 26.64T |
| February 2022 | 27.97T |
| March 2022 | 28.59T |
| April 2022 | 29.79T |
| May 2022 | 29.90T |
| June 2022 | 29.57T |
| July 2022 | 27.69T |
| August 2022 | 30.98T |
| September 2022 | 31.36T |
| October 2022 | 36.84T |
| November 2022 | 36.95T |
| December 2022 | 35.36T |
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 2022: 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