The difficulty bomb is designed to make mining profitability plummet in order to disincentivize miners ahead of the long-awaited Merge.
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Ethereum difficulty bomb delayed but network adoption still growing
BlockchainTime Stamp: June 13, 2022 1:35 AM
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