Bitcoin’s (BTC) hash rate surged 17% to an all-time high of 361.28EH/s on Jan. 6 from around 233 EH/s recorded on the same day — the second biggest one-day increase in the past year.

It has since retraced to 269.56 EH/s, as of press time.

(By Oluwapelumi Adejumo)