Bitcoin Hash Rate Hits New All-Time-High

The Bitcoin hash rate reached a new all-time high today, according to data from monitoring resource Blockchain.com on July 7.

The previous record was broken in the second half of June, when bitcoin's hashrate reached 65.19 TH/s and growth has steadily continued since then.

Hash rate is the number of calculations that a given hardware or network can perform every second.

It is a very important parameter for miners, as a higher hash rate will increase their chances of solving the mathematical problem, sealing off the block and collecting their reward.

A higher network hashrate also increases the amount of resources needed for performing a 51% attack, making the network safer.

Increases in the network's hash rate also often mean that its energy consumption increases.

Still, cryptocurrency investment products and research firm CoinShares recently estimated that 74.1% of bitcoin mining is powered by renewable energy.

As Cointelegraph previously reported, the period after September 2018 - during the so-called "Crypto winter" - proved to be a retrograde step for the bitcoin network.

At the time, the network's hashrate decreased for the first time ever.

In June news broke that bitcoin's mining difficulty has reached an all-time high, demonstrating the increasing competition for block rewards between miners.