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Data / Mining difficulty / 2023
Bitcoin mining difficulty since 2013, stepping at every retarget.
Mining difficulty opened 2023 at 35.36T (January 1, 2023) and closed at 72.01T (December 31, 2023), up 103.6%. The high was 72.01T on December 23, 2023 and the low 34.09T on January 3, 2023.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2023 | 39.35T |
| February 2023 | 43.05T |
| March 2023 | 46.84T |
| April 2023 | 48.71T |
| May 2023 | 51.23T |
| June 2023 | 50.65T |
| July 2023 | 52.33T |
| August 2023 | 55.62T |
| September 2023 | 57.12T |
| October 2023 | 62.46T |
| November 2023 | 67.96T |
| December 2023 | 72.01T |
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 2023: 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 · Miner prices per terahash · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · Break-even electricity price