PANews reported on February 9th, according to News.bitcoin, that the Bitcoin network's hash rate has risen to 852 EH/s (7-day SMA), surpassing the peak record of 840 EH/s set a few days ago. It is predicted that mining difficulty will increase by 6.38%. Among the 70 identifiable participants, 19 mining pools control 97.7% of the network's hash power. Due to persistent transaction inertia, blocks occasionally stall in their formation process, which contrasts sharply with last year's severe bottleneck of over 600,000 unconfirmed transactions.