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Monero hashrate hits 6 month high at 7.17 GH/s – But XMR’s $650 breakout needs…

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The Monero [XMR] network hashrate has reached six-month highs and approached the record highs set in January 2026. At the time of writing, the hashrate was at 7.17 GH/s, or gigahashes per second. The privacy-focused chain's computational firepower might be climbing higher but the mining distribution was quite concentrated. The top 4 mining pools command 75% of the network's hashrate, data from MiningPoolStats showed. This was a result of how mining pools coordinate the computing power that individual miners bring, and should not alarm investors. Monero bulls challenge January supply zone The privacy sector tokens' performance was a mixed bag, data from CoinMarketCap showed. ZCash [ZEC] and Dash [DASH] have rallied 9.9% and 10.2% respectively in the past week, while Monero [XMR] price has fallen by 2.6%.

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