Bitcoin mining difficulty rebounds 15% as US miners recover from winter outages

Bitcoin mining difficulty rebounds 15% as US miners recover from winter outages

• Bitcoin mining difficulty rebounds 15% as US miners recover from winter outages Bitcoin’s mining difficulty climbed to 144.4 trillion after January storms briefly slashed hash ra

FinTech · February 20, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 274 words

Bitcoin mining difficulty jumps 15%, posting record absolute increase as hashrate rebounds after US winter storm

• Bitcoin mining difficulty jumped 14.7% to 144.4T in a record absolute increase as hashrate rebounded after U.S. • winter storm curtailments.

Bitcoin difficulty jumps 15% largest increase since 2021, despite price slump

Bitcoin difficulty jumps 15% largest increase since 2021, despite price slump

• Bitcoin difficulty jumps 15% largest increase since 2021, despite price slump Bitcoin difficulty rebounds to 144.4T as hashrate recovers to 1 ZH/s despite multi year low hashpric