Bitcoin Miner Difficulty Plummets to Third-Deepest Level

Bitcoin miner difficulty has fallen to its third-deepest level since the introduction of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), dropping by 19.9% from its peak.

This decline in difficulty coincides with a 12% decrease in the network's hashrate, which is now at 868 exahashes per second, down from the late-2025 peak of over one zettahash per second.

The current difficulty level of 126.23 trillion is about 19% below the record of roughly 156 trillion set in November 2025.