On January 8, following another recalculation, the mining difficulty $BTC decreased by 1.2% — to 146.47 T.
In the previous instance, the indicator increased by a negligible 0.04%, temporarily interrupting the downward trend.
As of the time of writing, Bitcoin's hash rate remains above the 1 ZH/s mark. According to Glassnode, the smoothed seven-day moving average is at 1.04 ZH/s.
The share of public mining companies in Bitcoin's computing power has exceeded 40%. The largest is MARA Holdings with 5.9% of the global hash rate.
In the context of mining pools, Foundry USA has concentrated 29%, AntPool accounts for 15.5%, and ViaBTC has 12.9%.
According to Hashrate Index, the hash rate price is at $38 per PH/s per day. Just before the difficulty reduction, the miners' profitability metric surpassed $40 for the first time since November 2025.
We remind you that in December, institutional investors began buying Bitcoin faster than miners could produce coins.
