Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drops 10% to 11-Month Low as Hashrate Declines
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Jamie Redman
21d ago· 4 min readenNews
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Bitcoin's mining difficulty dropped 10% to 124.93 trillion, marking the lowest level since July 2025 and an 11-month low. The adjustment occurred at block height 953568 and represents the second-steepest downward adjustment of the year. The decline follows a cooling hashrate and intense margin pressure on miners, with hashprice falling below the $28-per-PH/s threshold.
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The latest difficulty reading of 124.93 trillion now stands as the lowest level recorded in 2026 and the weakest mark posted since July 12, 2025.
Bitcoin miners have been navigating intense margin pressure since hashprice, the estimated daily value of one petahash per second (PH/s) of computing power, fell below the $28-per-PH/s threshold last week.
Bitcoin's latest difficulty cut pushed the network to an 11-month low as hashrate retreated from recent highs.
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