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Bitcoin fundamentals diverge from BTC price dip as difficulty hits new all-time high

January 21, 2022
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Bitcoin (BTC) may have tanked to six-month lows this week, but under the hood, the network is now verifiably stronger than ever.

Data from on-chain monitoring resources including Glassnode and BTC.com confirms that as of Friday, the Bitcoin network difficulty is at a new all-time high.

Difficulty passes 26 trillion for the first time

The difficulty, which expresses how much miners need to work to solve the equations to process transactions on the blockchain, is arguably the most important of fundamental Bitcoin network components.

The metric automatically adjusts to increase or decrease mining effort according to miner participation — the more competition among miners, the higher the difficulty.

This has the effect of keeping mining stable regardless of factors such as sentiment, price or unintended incidents.

After dipping in mid-2021, difficulty took the rest of the year to bounce back, with the latest automated readjustment adding 9.32% to the previous level. With that, it entered unexplored territory above 26 trillion.

Commenting on the event, cryptocurrency journalist and commentator Colin Wu noted that the increase is the highest in over half a year, with BTC.com data confirming that late August saw the last adjustment of more than 10%.

BTC price dip fails to break miner resolve

The difficulty thus logically followed the hash rate higher, this having continually set new record highs last year.

The hash rate, an estimate of the processing power dedicated to the blockchain by miners, currently sits at 192 exahashes per second (EH/s), having briefly reached 218 EH/s on Jan. 10, according to MiningPoolStats.

Bitcoin hash rate for week beginning Jan. 17 (screenshot). Source: MiningPoolStats

As Cointelegraph often reports, an old mantra among age-old hodlers is that “price follows hash rate,” this trend nonetheless taking a back seat for many as fundamentals move in the opposite direction to spot price.

The growing hash rate thus implies that on longer timeframes, miner optimism over the profitability of their operations remains. Calculations last week revealed their break-even point to lie at around $34,000.

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