The value of Bitcoin has reached a two-year excessive of greater than $19,000 and fallen under $17,000 greater than as soon as within the span of every week as mining problem continues to rise.

In line with on-chain analytics supplier Glassnode, Bitcoin (BTC) mining problem elevated by 8.9% at the moment, placing the metric inside 5% of its all-time excessive worth set final month.

An increase in mining problem marked the beginning of bull cycles in 2013 and 2016, although it stays to be seen whether or not the coin’s latest rally to inside 3% of its ATH worth is long-term bullish. The value of Bitcoin fell by 11% final week as many whales moved a few of their holdings to exchanges and is $18,122 on the time of publication.

Higher mining problem can imply a rise charges for customers and the time required to generate a block along with growing the variety of unmined transactions in Bitcoin’s mempool. In line with estimates from Earn.com, the optimum BTC transaction price is at the moment 14,272 satoshis, or roughly $2.60.

The Ethereum (ETH) blockchain has additionally seen file highs just lately. Glassnode reported mining problem for the community was at a two-year excessive on Friday following the worth of the token falling from greater than $600 on Nov. 23 to $513 in three days. 

The community hash fee — a sign as to how a lot computing energy is being devoted to validating Bitcoin transactions — plunged following the metric and mining problem reaching an ATH in October. Information from Blockchain.com shows the metric fell greater than 27% between Oct. 17 and Nov. 2, from 146.5 EH/s to 106.6 EH/s. Bitcoin’s hashrate is at the moment 130.15 EH/s, in response to BTC.com.

On the time of publication, the worth of Bitcoin is staying above $18,000, having risen 1.9% within the final 24 hours.