{"id":710854,"date":"2026-02-07T22:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bitcoin-difficulty-drops-by-over-11-sharpest-drop-since-2021-china-ban\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:30:25","slug":"bitcoin-difficulty-drops-by-over-11-sharpest-drop-since-2021-china-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bitcoin-difficulty-drops-by-over-11-sharpest-drop-since-2021-china-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin difficulty drops by over 11%, sharpest drop since 2021 China ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDEvMDE5YmEwZGYtM2IwMC03Mzk4LWE5YTUtODJjZGMzNDQwMTEwLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin difficulty drops by over 11%, sharpest drop since 2021 China ban\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"><\/p>\n<p>The Bitcoin network&#8217;s mining difficulty dropped by as much as 27% within a single adjustment period during China&#8217;s 2021 crypto mining ban.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">The Bitcoin network mining difficulty, a metric tracking the relative challenge of adding new blocks to the Bitcoin (BTC) ledger, fell by about 11.16% in the last 24 hours, the worst drop in a single adjustment period since China\u2019s 2021 ban on crypto mining.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin mining difficulty is at 125.86 T and took effect at block 935,429, data from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coinwarz.com\/mining\/bitcoin\/difficulty-chart\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">CoinWarz<\/a> shows. The average block time is over 11 minutes, overshooting the 10-minute target.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">Difficulty is projected to fall again in the next adjustment on February 23 by about 10.4% to 112.7 T, according to CoinWarz.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The Bitcoin network mining difficulty, a metric tracking the relative challenge of adding new blocks to the Bitcoin (BTC) ledger, fell by about 11.16% in the last 24 hours, the worst drop in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":710855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/f=auto,onerror=redirect,w=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2026-01\/019ba0df-3b00-7398-a9a5-82cdc3440110.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}