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Could the Diff be manipulated in some way to make it spike like this if you look at some charts of the Diff we are moving up at such a rate now it's incredible to look at.
I think it has more to do with the exponential growth of high-end ASICs
and a $998.99
BTC vs a $6,051
BTC. Everyone wants some "magic internet money".
Indeed, and the return of a lot of hashrate that was dumped onto mining shitcoin cash instead. A lot of new hashrate may have been initially directed at cash instead for a while and has now started mining real bitcoin.