Difficulty

Description

The difficulty metric in the PoW network measures how hard it is for miners to find a valid hash for a new block. In 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

Access

Free Access

Measuring Unit

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

Data Type

Timeseries Data

Frequency

Daily Intervals

Latency

On-Chain Latency

Available Assets

Available for bitcoin

SanAPI

Available under name: avg_difficulty

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

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