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For only the second time in Bitcoin’s history, the annual change in mining difficulty has turned negative. The last time this happened was in 2021, when China’s mining crackdown forced a massive amount of hashrate offline. This time, the story is different. Bitcoin’s mining
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AI visual note: A chart from Alphractal shows Bitcoin mining difficulty year-over-year change (green/red bars) alongside the price (white line) from 2020 to 2025, with the YoY difficulty currently sitting at -24.22%—highlighted as only the second time in Bitcoin's history the annual difficulty change has turned negative, the first being during China's 2021 mining crackdown.