Every bit the Bitcoin network hash rate continues to recover amid global miners accumulating more chapters, the cryptocurrency is getting increasingly difficult to mine.

On Tuesday, the Bitcoin network posted some other mining difficulty adjustment, ascent 3.2% to hit a difficulty charge per unit of most 19 trillion, according to information from blockchain explorer BTC.com.

The latest adjustment makes up the 5th consecutive surge of Bitcoin'south (BTC) mining difficulty since mid-July, with the difficulty rate increasing more 31% from around 13.7 trillion, the everyman difficulty level since June 2022.

The new positive adjustments follow a batch of four consecutive difficulty drops that started with a near 16% decline in belatedly May amid global ecology, social, and corporate governance-related concerns over Bitcoin as well as Communist china's nationwide crackdown on cryptocurrency mining.

Despite seeing 5 positive adjustments in a row, the current Bitcoin mining difficulty charge per unit is still far from its all-time high level of over 25 trillion recorded in May 2022.

Bitcoin'south 10 past mining difficulty adjustments. Source: BTC.com

Bitcoin mining difficulty is a metric designed to reverberate how hard it is to mine a Bitcoin block, with a higher difficulty level requiring more computing power to verify transactions and mine new coins. The difficulty adjustment occurs every two,016 blocks, or about every two weeks, as Bitcoin is programmed to self-arrange in order to keep a target cake time of 10 minutes.

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The ongoing growth of BTC mining difficulty comes in parallel with a significant surge of the Bitcoin hash rate, the total combined computational power used to mine and process BTC transactions. The Bitcoin hash rate surged to 150 exahashes (EH/due south) in belatedly August afterward plummeting to as depression equally 52 EH/s in June, recovering to early-June levels and indicating that miners were coming back online after China's crackdown.