{"id":491009,"date":"2025-09-19T19:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=757533"},"modified":"2025-09-19T19:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:27:19","slug":"bitcoin-difficulty-hits-fresh-high-with-network-power-steady-over-1-zettahash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/bitcoin-difficulty-hits-fresh-high-with-network-power-steady-over-1-zettahash\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Difficulty Hits Fresh High With Network Power Steady Over 1 Zettahash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kdddx-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>While Bitcoin\u2019s hashrate hums along at 1 zettahash per second (ZH\/s), the network\u2019s difficulty just cranked up another 4.63%, locking in a fresh peak at 142.34 trillion. Bitcoin blocks just got 4.63% tougher to mine after the latest difficulty bump. As of 2:35 p.m. Eastern time Friday, the network\u2019s hashrate clocks in at 1,016.03 exahash [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Bitcoin\u2019s hashrate hums along at 1 zettahash per second (ZH\/s), the network\u2019s difficulty just cranked up another 4.63%, locking in a fresh peak at 142.34 trillion. Bitcoin blocks just got 4.63% tougher to mine after the latest difficulty bump. As of 2:35 p.m. Eastern time Friday, the network\u2019s hashrate clocks in at 1,016.03 exahash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":491010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-491009","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\/491009","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=491009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}