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Key Takeaways
- Bitcoin mining difficulty fell 10.09%, from 138.96T to 124.93T, at block 953,568.
- The drop is Bitcoin’s 11th-largest downward adjustment and the second-largest of 2026.
- A roughly 15% June price decline pushed miners offline, stretching the epoch to 15.6 days.
- Active miners now earn over 9% more BTC per unit of hashrate, lifting hashprice toward $30.
Bitcoin’s mining network has delivered one of its sharpest corrections of the year. The latest difficulty adjustment cut the metric by 10.09%, from 138.96 trillion to 124.93 trillion at block height 953,568, according to CoinWarz data. The move ranks as the 11th-largest downward adjustment in Bitcoin’s history and the second-largest of 2026, a direct consequence of the price weakness that squeezed miners through June.
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