Svmuu News Bitcoin The mining difficulty is automatically adjusted every 2,016 blocks to maintain a block generation target of approximately 10 minutes. If blocks are produced faster than scheduled, the difficulty is increased for the next cycle; if slower than scheduled, the difficulty is decreased.
In February 2026, Winter Storm Fern caused major mining operations in key regions such as Texas to shut down their equipment, causing Bitcoin’s hash rate to drop from a previous peak of nearly 1.13 ZH/s to approximately 663 EH/s.On February 7, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty was reduced by 11.16%. Subsequently, miners resumed operations, and hash rate rebounded to nearly 1 ZH/s.On February 19, the network difficulty increased by 14.7% to 144.4 trillion, marking the largest percentage increase since 2021.
On June 13, the Bitcoin mining difficulty was reduced again by approximately 9.91%.At that time, the price of Bitcoin fell by about 15%, and some publicly traded mining companies shifted their mining rigs and data center capacity toward AI and high-performance computing workloads; as of late July, early data for the next difficulty adjustment indicated a potential decrease of about 1.2%. (bitcoin.com)