To mine a block of transaction of a blockchain based cryptocurrency, miner has to perform mathematical calculation such that the hash of a block has some preceding zeros.
In case of Bitcoin, the preceding number of zeros is kept such that it takes ~10 mins to find a hash.
So basically, the more faster the hash calculations of the miners gets, the more harder Bitcoin makes to find the hash by increasing the no. of preceding zeros in a hash.
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