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Bitcoin network expects stability as mining difficulty gets readjusted by ~16%

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The Bitcoin crash that took the price of the world’s largest cryptocurrency down to $3k has been a game-changer for Bitcoin miners everywhere. In fact, many miners quit the network as the mining became unprofitable due to reduced prices, thus impacting the hash rate and block production.

A readjustment in difficulty was necessary to bring the operations back to normal in the Bitcoin ecosystem. On 25 March, Bitcoin’s difficulty readjustment led to a drop in difficulty by 15.95%.

According to Ankit Chpilunkar, a researcher at Token Analyst, this ~16% drop was noted to correct increased block times. The block times have thus, dropped by 35%, returning to its normal level of 9.75 mins to 15.15 mins.

The delay in block production was a result of the slower mining of blocks. According to Glassnode, the mining of blocks had slowed down by 25%, with the time taken to produce one block reaching 2018 levels, a time when Bitcoin’s price had crashed after the high of December 2017. Chiplunkar also highlighted this via a tweet where he mentioned that on 25 March, there were three instances observed where the blocks were mined following an hour’s delay.

The expected rate of the difficulty drop was around 14%; however, the difficulty dropped by almost 16%, a development that would mean increased miners’ revenue. Data provided by Blockchain.com suggests that miners’ revenue was spiking until 17 February, recording a value of $19.82 million.

However, as the disturbance in the Bitcoin market got worse, the revenue noted a drop. Despite BTC’s terrible fall on 12 March, data suggested that the revenue had taken a nosedive in two installments. The first fall took place between 7 March and 11 March, a time period during which the revenue fell from $18.20 million to $11.90 million.

Following this, there was a spike on 12 February, climbing to $13.54 million. However, it soon slipped to $8.63 million on 13 February.

The last recorded data on Blockchain.com suggested that the revenue had fallen further to $8.11 million; however, as the difficulty was re-adjusted on 25 March and as the price of Bitcoin stabilizes, the revenue earned by miners will also notice a positive change soon enough.

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Namrata is a full-time journalist at AMBCrypto covering the US and Indian market. A graduate in Mass communication, while majoring in Journalism, she writes mainly about regulations and its impact with a focus on technological advancements in the crypto space.
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