As a result of the latest recalculation, the mining complexity of the first cryptocurrency increased by 3.58%. The indicator updated its historical maximum at 92.67 T.
The average hashrate for the period since the previous change in value was 662.34 EH/s, the interblock interval was reduced to 9 minutes 40 seconds.
According to Glassnodesmoothed by a 7-day moving average, the network computing power indicator peaked at 693.9 EH/s on September 8. It has since corrected to 672.3 EH/s.
According to data Hashrate Indexagainst the backdrop of increasing mining difficulty hashprice has fallen from $41 per PH per day to $39 in the last 24 hours.
In August, the total income of miners of the first cryptocurrency amounted to $827.56 million – the lowest figure since September 2023.
Before the April halving, CoinShares experts suggested that industry participants would compensate for the reduction in mining profits, including through expansion into the AI sphere.
Let us recall that miners can receive about $13.9 billion in additional revenue per year if they transfer 20% of energy consumption to high-performance computing, VanEck calculated.
According to Bernstein analysts, the potential of cryptocurrency miners in the AI segment is the main reason for the interest of institutional investors in them.
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Source: Cryptocurrency
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