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  "textContent": "While price action has always been volatile and, arguably, exciting, the Bitcoin network itself is built to feel boring. Ten minutes per block, tick tock, rinse and repeat, a metronome you can set your watch to. Then every so often, it gets very human again. Early this morning, block production slowed enough that the average […]\n\nThe post Bitcoin mining profit crisis hits as difficulty to drop by 14% this weekend while block time spikes to 20 minutes appeared first on CryptoSlate.",
  "title": "Bitcoin mining profit crisis hits as difficulty to drop by 14% this weekend while block time spikes to 20 minutes"
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