Category mining difficulty

Bitcoin’s 15% difficulty spike allows one on-chain metric to flip miners from sellers to hoarders in days
Bitcoin difficulty just reset about 15% higher to roughly 144.40T. While this is neither the first nor the last, it is the largest since around 202...
Mar, 01, 2026
7 min read
by CryptoSlate

Bitcoin difficulty jumps 15% largest increase since 2021, despite price slump
Bitcoin difficulty rebounds to 144.4T as hashrate recovers to 1 ZH/s despite multi year low hashprice.
Feb, 20, 2026
by CoinDesk

Bitcoin mining difficulty drops by most since 2021 as miners capitulate
Miners are facing significant challenges, with bitcoin revenue per petahash falling by half from a peak of $70 to $35.
Feb, 09, 2026
by CoinDesk

BTC hashrate drops 15% from October high as miner capitulation drags into almost 60 days
Bitcoin mining difficulty set for a 4% decline, the seventh negative adjustment in the past eight.
Jan, 19, 2026
by CoinDesk

Bitcoin difficulty just retreated, but a more critical “survival metric” signals the mining sector is bleeding out
Bitcoin’s first difficulty adjustment of 2026 was anything but dramatic. The network nudged the dial down to about 146.4 trillion, a pretty small r...
Jan, 17, 2026
8 min read
by CryptoSlate