{"id":473472,"date":"2025-08-09T16:10:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=747252"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:10:35","slug":"bitcoins-difficulty-smashes-records-making-rewards-tougher-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/bitcoins-difficulty-smashes-records-making-rewards-tougher-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin\u2019s Difficulty Smashes Records, Making Rewards Tougher Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/dddeeznu-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bitcoin\u2019s Difficulty Smashes Records, Making Rewards Tougher Than Ever\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>The latest figures reveal Bitcoin\u2019s difficulty rating notched its 11th increase of the year, rising 1.42% on Friday evening and making block rewards even harder to discover. Despite five separate decreases along the way, Bitcoin\u2019s mining difficulty has still climbed 17.73% in 2025 so far. 129.44 Trillion: Bitcoin\u2019s Highest Difficulty Level in History Bitcoin block [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest figures reveal Bitcoin\u2019s difficulty rating notched its 11th increase of the year, rising 1.42% on Friday evening and making block rewards even harder to discover. Despite five separate decreases along the way, Bitcoin\u2019s mining difficulty has still climbed 17.73% in 2025 so far. 129.44 Trillion: Bitcoin\u2019s Highest Difficulty Level in History Bitcoin block [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":473473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-473472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-mining"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}