Drop in Hashrate: What Does It Mean for Bitcoin?
In mid-August 2026, Bitcoin’s network hashrate sits roughly 17% below its all-time high. Trackers show it retreating from a late-2025 peak above one zettahash per second into a range near 850–920 exahashes per second. Difficulty has followed, posting year-over-year declines for only the second time in the network’s history. Public miners are redirecting power and capital toward artificial-intelligence data centers. Hashprice has compressed....