Bitcoin’s network hashrate hit an all-time high of over 1.2 trillion on Tuesday and remains elevated despite a drop in difficulty.
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The Bitcoin () mining difficulty fell to 146.7 trillion on Friday as the network hashrate, the average of the total computing power dedicated to securing the decentralized protocol, hit an all-time high of over 1.2 trillion hashes per second.
is down by about 2.7% from the all-time high difficulty level of over 150.8 trillion reached during the previous adjustment period, according to .
However, network hashrate hit an all-time high on Tuesday, and remains elevated above 1.2 trillion, despite a small dip from Tuesday’s all-time high, from CryptoQuant shows. CoinWarz also forecast:
“The next difficulty adjustment is estimated to take place on Oct 29, 2025, 08:14:49 AM UTC, increasing the Bitcoin mining difficulty from 146.72 T to 156.92 T, which will take place in 1,474 blocks.”
The rising hashrate signals that miners will have to expend ever-greater computing resources to add blocks to the Bitcoin ledger, placing even more pressure on beleaguered miners, who are , reduced block rewards, and competition.
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Mining companies continue to search for alternative revenue streams to shore up shortfalls from mining digital currencies, including and other forms of high-performance computing.
Core Scientific, Hut 8, and IREN all re-allocated resources toward AI data centers in 2024 to boost profits and reduce reliance on revenue generated from crypto mining.
However, the pivot to AI data centers has created tension between miners and the AI infrastructure providers, as both energy-hungry industries compete for to power their operations.
Despite the addition of new revenue streams, the mining industry continues to and fomenting supply chain issues, the latter of which stems from US President Donald Trump’s sweeping trade tariffs.
Tariffs in jurisdictions that are subject to tariffs on those products, putting miners in those areas at a competitive disadvantage to miners who can acquire rigs without the added tariff costs.
Moreover, if trade tensions between the US and China continue to grow, , chips, and other electronics could make the hardware more difficult to acquire.
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