Bitcoin’s Hashrate Jumps by 15% While Miner Holdings Drop

Key Insights:

• The bitcoin hashrate increased by 15% since the latest difficulty adjustment.
• Mining difficulty, however, was relatively stable.
• BTC held by miners recently hit its 10-year low.

Bitcoin mining statistics have been on a roller coaster ride of late. From making a new all-time high not one month ago to the long-drawn downtrend.

And adding to that is the recent ten-day hash rate uptrend makes it evident that the BTC hash rate has seen an exciting path recently.

Hash Rate Up by 15%

The king coin’s hash rate has been in an uptrend for the last four days after noting a long-drawn downtrend. According to data, the BTC mining hash rate reached a new all-time high of 249 EH/s on February 15.

The hashrate increased by around 15% since the difficulty adjustment and 29% since the hashrate hit 169 EH/s two weeks back. The total hash rate or the estimated number of terahashes per second the Bitcoin network performs in 24 hours stood at 196.43 Million TH/s at press time.

Data obtained from Glassnode underlined that the mean hash rate (7-day SMA) has been in an uptrend for four days after facing a considerable drop for almost a month. Bitcoin’s hashrate slipped two weeks ago, on February 27, to 169 EH/s after making the latest all-time high.

The hash rate is the measuring unit of the processing power of the Bitcoin network. That said, since December 2021, BTC’s difficulty was on an uptick, but it noted a pullback around the beginning of March. Following the drop in processing power, the difficulty declined for the first time in months. 

On March 3, the difficulty dropped approximately 1.5% lower after six consecutive positive difficulty adjustments before that. Bitcoin’s mining difficulty was relatively stable at press time and following the latest difficulty adjustment, processing power has improved. 

Bitcoin Miners Sell Holdings

Data from ‘IntoTheBlock’ highlighted that the amount of BTC held by crypto miners recently hit its 10-year low.

The data aggregator presented that the pressure on miners’ margins could have resulted in miners selling part of their holdings to cover operational expenses. 

#Crypto is evolving and miners are having a smaller role in it

– The amount of $BTC held by miners reached a 10-year low
-Bitcoin hash rate is near record levels
-These pressure on miners' margins, resulting in miners selling part of their holdings to cover operational expenses pic.twitter.com/lPkD04Lm3S

— IntoTheBlock (@intotheblock) March 11, 2022

Only a total of 1.95 million BTC was owned by the entire miner community around press time, which is one of the lowest figures seen since 2010.

Furthermore, the recent drop in miner hash power came alongside a higher hashrate and difficulty affecting the overall network.

Nonetheless, positive developments like Biden’s Executive Order signing have brought more miners to the network, as witnessed in the rising hash rate.

It is well known that a higher hash rate means greater security for the network since it is reflective of a more distributed network.