Altcoin difficulty charts
Mining farm image via Shutterstock. When network difficulty reduces its rate of climb, miners are going out of business, leaving only the strong miners who proportionally need to sell less of their coins to remain operational, this leads to less sell pressure and more room for bullish price action. Competition right now is so fierce, mining difficulty has leapfrogged the entire range of eight trillion to break the threshold of nine trillion. Enthusiasm for bitcoin mining has pushed the hash rate to as high as Bitcoin Inflation Rate Track the historic inflation annual rate of Bitcoin’s money supply. Read more about Disclosure Read More The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies.