Difficulty Adjustments When the total hash rate declines, the difficulty of mining declines as well. For miners who continue to mine, a halving can increase profitability by weeding out competition and increasing their likelihood of finding a block and claiming the reward.
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The ‘halving’ is the reduction by 50% of the rate that the currency is mined and the reward for that mining . This purposeful slowdown of the amount of Bitcoin that is added into circulation helps to control inflation by in effect, making the cryptocurrency more scarce.
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