Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Has Never Stayed Below Its Peak for This Long
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has now spent 374 days below its October 2025 all-time high, the longest such stretch in the network’s history, beating a record set after the 2011 crash. A Record Nobody Wanted Economist and author Saifedean Ammous flagged the milestone on Saturday, writing that Bitcoin difficulty has been…
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