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Topic: [2014-11-26] 30-day difficulty growth of Bitcoin mining network cools down (Read 763 times)

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0.5% sounds little, but it's still a 5-fold increase per year, much greater than Moore's law.
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30-day difficulty growth of Bitcoin mining network cools to mere 0.5% growth per day

Behind the roaring growth of Bitcoin mining is the unassuming ASIC, or application specific integrated circuit. Since ASICs were first introduced to mine Bitcoin in 2013, we have seen the difficulty of Bitcoin mining take leaps forward as chips have become more powerful and more efficient.

http://www.asicspace.com/blog/2014/11/26/14-day-difficulty-growth-of-bitcoin-mining-network-cools-to-mere-05-growth-per-day
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