Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Difficulty Adjustment and More

Bitcoin’s network difficulty adjusted downwards today, making older mining machines profitable once again, while Tokensoft distributed $4 million in tokenized equity to investors and technology firms are calling upon the Department of Defense to invest in the blockchain arms race. Here’s the story:

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Getting Easier
The Bitcoin network just fine-tuned a key parameter to coax back miners who quit after last week’s halving hammered their profits. Bitcoin’s mining difficulty, which measures how hard it is to compete for block rewards, decreased 6% on Wednesday, in the network’s first biweekly difficulty adjustment since the halving meant to keep the block interval at roughly every 10 minutes. This adjustment may lure less efficient miners back into the network.

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