Bitcoin Difficulty Hits Fresh High With Network Power Steady Over 1 Zettahash

While Bitcoins hashrate hums along at 1 zettahash per second (ZH/s), the networks difficulty just cranked up another 4.63%, locking in a fresh peak at 142.34 trillion. Bitcoin blocks just got 4.63% tougher to mine after the latest difficulty bump. As of 2:35 p.m. Eastern time Friday, the networks hashrate clocks in at 1,016.03 exahash []