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Network Difficulty Surpasses 1 Million

Mining difficulty crossed 1,000,000 as competition intensified post-GPU.

Difficulty adjusts every 2016 blocks to target ten-minute intervals. Crossing one million signaled that Bitcoin mining had become a specialized, competitive industry rather than a hobbyist experiment.

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