Bitcoin Mining Hits a Crossroads as Difficulty Hovers Near the Floor
Yesterday, at block height 963648, Bitcoin logged its 17th difficulty adjustment of 2026, and the numbers tell a brutal story. This has not been a year of steady hashrate expansion. It has been a grind of miner capitulat...
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