Mining some Bitcoin blocks this afternoon took much longer than the average mining time.
According to BTC.com data, the block after block 815.688, which was mined at 11:04 today, is on average 10 minutes It was excavated at 11:47, later than the excavation time.
Block number 815.690 follows the block excavated by Antpool. almost 60 minutes later, at 12:56 p.m. could be excavated.
These two blocks, which arrived with a delay, respectively 28,919 And 20,827 Bitcoins volume was recorded.
A difficulty update was made last week in order to maintain the 10-minute average block mining time on the Bitcoin blockchain and the difficulty level was changed. 62.4 trillion with an increase of 2.35% output.
As miners continue to work more intensively ahead of the halving, which is expected to take place in April, the cost of producing Bitcoin is also increasing.