Bitcoin mining difficulty is expected to increase by at least 3% on Dec. 19 for the final adjustment of the year, according to Bitrawr Bitcoin difficulty estimator.

According to the data, BTC’s current mining difficulty is at 34244331613176.18, and the estimated 3% increase would take the mining difficulty to between 35421102548895 and 35421764497396.

Mining difficulty describes how difficult it gets to solve the cryptographic puzzle necessary to create a block on the Bitcoin network and adjusts every two weeks.

(By Oluwapelumi Adejumo)