Bitcoin mining difficulty falls 10% as hashprice tops $30

Bitcoin mining difficulty fell 10.09% on Sunday, dropping from 138.96 trillion to 124.93 trillion at block 953,568. Galaxy Research noted this was the blockchain’s 11th-largest downward adjustment, the second-biggest drop of 2026 and about 20% below its November peak; the epoch ran 15.6 days, above the typical 14, as hashrate came offline amid a roughly 15% slide in Bitcoin’s price in June that squeezed miner margins.

Total hash rate stands at 886 exahashes per second (EH/s), down 12% so far this month and 23% from October’s peak, per Blockchain.com. The reduced hashrate makes blocks easier to mine, and crypto trader Merlijn Enkelaar estimates remaining miners now earn about 9% more per machine.

Hashprice has climbed 13% to $33 per petahash per second per day, Hashrate Index shows, pushing the metric back above $30 and nudging more operators toward a gross breakeven point. Efficient fleets can still generate profit, while older-generation machines with higher electricity costs are likely to be turned off.

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