Bitcoin Difficulty Logs 11.16% Reduction, Largest Drop Since China’s 2021 Mining Crackdown
This weekend, the Bitcoin network logged its steepest difficulty cut since July 3, 2021—a moment that followed China’s sweeping ban on mining and trading, which triggered a sharp market sell-off and sent miners scramblin...
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Bitcoin is showing up inside the Mining theme, so this story is worth tracking for follow-through rather than treating it as a one-off headline.
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