Bitcoin mining difficulty falls 10.09%, second-largest downward adjustment in 2026

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Bitcoin has completed a new mining difficulty adjustment at block height 953,568. Difficulty dropped 10.09% to 124.93T from 138.96T, ranking as the 11th-largest single adjustment on record and the second-biggest decline so far in 2026. The latest adjustment period lasted about 15.6 days, well above the 14-day target, pointing to a recent, temporary pullback in network hash rate. Analysts attribute the move to a roughly 15% price correction in June that squeezed miner margins, pushing some hash power off the network and setting up this sharp difficulty reset toward a more balanced level.