PANews reported on February 9 that according to News.bitcoin, the Bitcoin network computing power rose to 852 EH/s (7-day SMA), exceeding the peak record of 840 EH/s set a few days ago. The mining difficulty is predicted to rise by 6.38%. Among the 70 identifiable participants, 19 mining pools control 97.7% of the network computing power. Due to the continued existence of transaction inertia, blocks occasionally stalled in the process of formation, which is in stark contrast to the severe bottleneck of more than 600,000 unconfirmed transfers last year.