Difficulty

The difficulty metric in a PoW network measures how hard it is for miners to find a valid hash for a new block. In the Bitcoin network, it automatically adjusts roughly every two weeks to maintain an average block time of 10 minutes, ensuring network stability despite changes in total mining power. As more miners join the network, the difficulty increases, making mining more challenging, while a drop in mining power lowers it.

Difficulty Metric:

• avg_difficulty - The average Bitcoin network difficulty over a 24-hour period

Free Access

Scaling factor that indicates how much harder it is to mine a block compared to the baseline difficulty of 1.

Timeseries Data

Daily Intervals

On-Chain Latency

Available for bitcoin.

Available under the name: avg_difficulty

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{
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  getMetric(metric: "avg_difficulty"){
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    timeseriesDataJson(
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      slug: "bitcoin"
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      from: "2025-11-01T00:00:00Z"
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      to: "2025-11-10T00:00:00Z"
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      interval: "1d")
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  }
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}