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 <li><em>Bitcoin hashrate reached a record 911.1 EH/s on January 3, highlighting its enhanced security and robustness.</em></li>  
 <li><em>Rising hashrates and increasing mining difficulty, coupled with the 2024 halving event, are driving up costs and potentially leading to miner consolidation.</em></li> 
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<h5 class="wp-block-heading">The Bitcoin network has <a href="https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-hashrate.html#6m" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">achieved</a> another milestone as its hashrate peaked for the first time at an all-time high of 911.1 exahashes per second on January 3.</h5>  
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="bitcoin-hashrate-sets-record-milestone">Bitcoin Hashrate Sets Record Milestone</h2>  
<p>Bitcoin hashrate refers to the total computing power used in mining and processing transactions on the Bitcoin network. As the hashrate increases, so does the difficulty in mining new blocks.</p>  
<p>Since October, <a href="https://coincu.com/299835-bitcoin-price-prediction-for-2025-80k-and-150k/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin</a> has undergone seven straight difficulty adjustments that keep the average time to mine a block at 10 minutes. Difficulty adjustments occur every 2016 block in order to maintain equilibrium in the system.</p>  
<p>While the surging hash rate is indicative of the great state of the network, this also acts to burden miners. The higher the hash rate, the higher the operational cost since the mining becomes even more power-intensive. And it is likely to worsen with the next halving in 2024, which drops the block reward by half.</p>  
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="the-future-of-mining-preparing-for-the-1-zettahash-era">The Future of Mining: Preparing for the 1 Zettahash Era</h2>  
<p>A combination of increasing costs and decreasing rewards will be the driver of change in the industry. Small mining operations will be consolidated, and larger players will struggle to compete. Miners will have to find cheaper sources of energy and more efficient technologies in order to maintain profitability.</p>  
<p>According to <em><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/01/03/bitcoins-computing-power-may-hit-a-major-milestone-long-before-next-halving" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CoinsDesk</a></em>, Bitcoin hashrate could reach 1 zettahash per second (ZH/s) in the next 3.5 years. This unprecedented computational power will require miners to innovate further.</p>  
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