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Bitcoin just got ~15% harder to mine as hashrate falls—pushing miner revenue back into the $30 stress zone Bitcoin’s mining economy has tightened again, but its undertones could pave the way for a price recovery in the top crypto. Over the past weeks, the network difficulty jumped, while the hashrate has shown signs of softening. At the same time, BTC miner margins have come under increased pressure as their revenue slipped back toward stress levels. That combination has repeatedly materialized near major inflection points in previous market cycles. While market analysts caution that this is not a magic buy signal for investors, the structural setup matters deeply because it has the potential to flip miner behavior from a desperate need to sell in order to survive into a scenario where they sell less of their accumulated holdings. This subtle shift in behavior can effectively turn what is normally a steady, predictable source of incoming market supply into a significantly lighter headwind for Bitcoin’s price. Related Reading Bitcoin difficulty just printed a historic -11.16% — if the next epoch stays red, miners are in trouble The biggest drop since 2021 is backward-looking, and CoinWarz’s projected 12% snapback will confirm if miners are returning. Feb 13, 2026 · Gino Matos A lagged difficulty jump landed after the rebound Bitcoin’s difficulty adjusts every 2,016 blocks, roughly every two weeks, meaning the metric is always reacting to events that have already occurred on the network. That timing explains the apparent contradiction in the latest move. After a storm and curtailment period knocked machines offline, the network saw a difficulty cut of about 11.16% to about 125.86T on Feb. 7. As miners came back online and block production normalized, the next adjustment moved in the opposite direction. On Feb. 19, difficulty rose about 14.73% to…

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