Bitcoin Records Second-Largest Difficulty Drop of 2026 as Hash Rate Remains Below 1 ZH/s

Bitcoin’s price is not the only part of the overall BTC ecosystem that has struggled in the past several months. One of the key components of the Bitcoin network, the mining difficulty adjustment, has just declined to a monthly low. In the meantime, the hash rate has dropped by approximately 20% in less than a month, showing that miners have been shutting down machines. Mining Difficulty Declines Upon creating …