"Bitcoin's difficulty rating is now 3.87% higher, making blocks that much harder to discover, and it further stands at 138.97 trillion times more difficult than Bitcoin's launch."
"Current estimates point to a projected 14.27% reduction, stemming from a noticeable slowdown in block intervals over the past day, with an average block time of 11 minutes 39 seconds."
Bitcoin's mining difficulty rose by 3.87% at block height 943488, marking the third increase this year. The network has experienced seven adjustments in total, with three increases and four decreases. The current difficulty is 138.97 trillion times harder than at launch. As of April 4, 2026, 181 of 2,016 blocks have been mined in the current epoch, with a projected 14.27% reduction expected by April 19, 2026, due to slower block intervals and a decline in hashrate.
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