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Data / Mining difficulty / 2024
Bitcoin mining difficulty since 2013, stepping at every retarget.
Mining difficulty opened 2024 at 72.01T (January 1, 2024) and closed at 109.78T (December 31, 2024), up 52.5%. The high was 109.78T on December 29, 2024 and the low 70.34T on January 20, 2024.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2024 | 70.34T |
| February 2024 | 81.73T |
| March 2024 | 83.13T |
| April 2024 | 88.10T |
| May 2024 | 84.38T |
| June 2024 | 83.68T |
| July 2024 | 90.67T |
| August 2024 | 89.47T |
| September 2024 | 88.40T |
| October 2024 | 95.67T |
| November 2024 | 102.29T |
| December 2024 | 109.78T |
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 2024: 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