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Network Difficulty

How hard mining the next block is — auto-adjusts every 2016 blocks

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What is Network Difficulty?

Bitcoin protocol adjusts this every 2016 blocks (~2 weeks) so blocks come every 10 minutes on average. More hash-rate → higher difficulty. Currently ~136T units.

Also known as

difficultybtc difficultymining difficulty