{"id":9872,"date":"2026-06-15T08:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=9872"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:05:01","slug":"bitcoin-mining-difficulty-plunges-10-delivering-rare-relief-to-struggling-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=9872","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Plunges 10%, Delivering Rare Relief to Struggling Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"blockquote-block_eeec4491073ab7e87e04c4efeb88c10a\" class=\"blockquote-container\" style=\"border-color: #5100fc\">\n<div class=\"blockquote-text\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bitcoin mining difficulty dropped 10.09% at block 953,568, falling from 138.96 trillion to 124.93 trillion, its lowest level since July 2025.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cut, the second-largest negative adjustment of 2026, lifts mining rewards per unit of hashrate by roughly 11% as struggling operators power down.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hashprice recovered above breakeven to about US$32.51 per petahash after sliding under US$28 the prior week.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s mining difficulty fell 10.09% over the weekend, dropping to its lowest level since July 2025 and handing the network\u2019s squeezed miners a rare measure of relief as falling prices forced weaker operators offline.<\/p>\n<p>The adjustment, recorded at block height 953,568, cut difficulty from 138.96 trillion to 124.93 trillion, the second-largest negative adjustment of 2026 after February, and one of the steepest declines in Bitcoin\u2019s history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bitcoin just confirmed its 11th-largest downward difficulty adjustment ever: \u221210.09% (138.96T to 124.93T) at block 953,568, the 2nd-biggest drop of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>A ~15% June price slide squeezed miner margins. The epoch ran 15.6 days vs the 14-day target as hashrate came offline.<\/p>\n<p>\u26cf\ufe0f\u26cf\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VLTTiGoGFN\">pic.twitter.com\/VLTTiGoGFN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Galaxy Research (@glxyresearch) June 14, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Difficulty automatically recalibrates roughly every two weeks to keep block times near ten minutes, falling when miners disconnect and rising when they pile back in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: Bitcoin\u2019s Four-Year Cycle Is Still on Track, Says Bob Loukas Despite Market Dip<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-miners-catch-a-break\">Miners Catch a Break<\/h2>\n<p>Because difficulty and reward-per-hashrate move inversely, the cut boosts the value each unit of computing power earns by roughly 11%. That relief showed up in hashprice, the estimated daily revenue from one petahash per second of power, which recovered to about US$32.51 (AU$46) after sliding below US$28 (AU$40) the previous week, dragging many operations under breakeven.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin (BTC) fell about 15% in June to trade around US$64,000 (AU$90,880), while the network\u2019s average mining cost was estimated near US$84,300 (AU$119,706), leaving many miners running at a loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When revenue falls below the cost of electricity and hardware, operators have little choice but to switch off rigs until conditions improve, a culling that mechanically lowers difficulty for everyone left running.<\/p>\n<p>As unprofitable rigs switched off, Bitcoin\u2019s hashrate slid from more than 1,000 exahashes per second in late spring to about 893 exahashes per second, a sharp retreat in the computing power securing the network.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The thinner hashrate stretched block times beyond eleven minutes before the adjustment pulled them back toward the ten-minute target.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more: Solana Institute Pushes Senate to Preserve Developer Protections in CLARITY Crypto Bill\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Bitcoin Mining,Mining#Bitcoin #Mining #Difficulty #Plunges #Delivering #Rare #Relief #Struggling #Miners1781510701<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin mining difficulty dropped 10.09% at block 953,568, falling from 138.96 trillion to 124.93 trillion, its lowest level since July 2025. The cut, the second-largest negative adjustment of 2026, lifts mining rewards per unit of hashrate by roughly 11% as struggling operators power down. Hashprice recovered above breakeven to about US$32.51 per petahash after sliding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[91,4946,1398,1072,447,3941,772,1496,4947],"class_list":["post-9872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin","tag-delivering","tag-difficulty","tag-miners","tag-mining","tag-plunges","tag-rare","tag-relief","tag-struggling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Plunges 10%, Delivering Rare Relief to Struggling Miners - Crypto News: Latest Cryptocurrency News and Analysis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=9872\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Plunges 10%, Delivering Rare Relief to Struggling Miners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bitcoin mining difficulty dropped 10.09% at block 953,568, falling from 138.96 trillion to 124.93 trillion, its lowest level since July 2025. 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