{"id":171202,"date":"2025-09-21T05:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/171202\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:38:11","slug":"bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-new-all-time-high-again-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/171202\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits New All-Time High Again in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bitcoin (BTC<\/a>) mining difficulty, a metric that tracks the relative challenge of adding new blocks to the ledger, climbed to a new all-time high of 142.3 trillion on Friday.<\/p>\n

Mining difficulty hit successive all-time highs<\/a> in August and September, driven by an influx of freshly deployed computing power over the last several weeks.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin\u2019s hashrate, the average of the total computing power securing the decentralized monetary protocol, also hit an all-time high of over 1.1 trillion hashes per second on Friday, according to CryptoQuant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The rising mining difficulty<\/a> and the constant need for energy-hungry, high-performance computing power to secure the network are making it harder for individual miners and corporations to compete, raising concerns that Bitcoin mining is becoming increasingly centralized.<\/p>\n

\"Mining,Bitcoin network difficulty hit a new all-time high in September. Source: CryptoQuant<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Bitcoin mining stocks outperform BTC as investors bet on AI pivots<\/a><\/p>\n

Publicly traded companies are facing the heat from governments and energy infrastructure providers <\/p>\n

Smaller miners and even publicly traded companies are facing rising competition from governments<\/a>, which have access to free energy resources, and energy infrastructure providers that can vertically integrate Bitcoin mining into their business operations.<\/p>\n

Several governments are already mining Bitcoin or exploring mining with excess or runoff energy<\/a>, including Bhutan, Pakistan, and El Salvador.<\/p>\n

In May, Pakistan\u2019s government announced plans to allocate 2,000 megawatts (MW) of surplus energy<\/a> for Bitcoin mining, as part of the country\u2019s regulatory pivot embracing cryptocurrencies and digital assets.<\/p>\n

Energy providers in the US state of Texas are also integrating Bitcoin mining into their infrastructure<\/a> to balance electrical loads in collaboration with the Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).<\/p>\n

\"Mining,A chart showing the reduction in energy usage of crypto miners in Texas during times of peak demand from 2021-2023. Source: ERCOT<\/p>\n

Electrical grids can suffer from a lack of energy to meet consumer needs during peak demand or too much surplus energy during times of low consumer demand, which can damage the electrical grid and pose a danger if not properly redirected.<\/p>\n

Energy companies in Texas leverage Bitcoin mining as a controllable load resource to balance these electrical discrepancies, consuming excess energy during times of low demand and turning off their mining rigs during times of peak consumer demand.<\/p>\n

This creates profit for these electricity providers without them worrying about the variable cost of energy, creating a significant competitive advantage over publicly traded mining corporations that must pay.<\/p>\n

Magazine: 7 reasons why Bitcoin mining is a terrible business idea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty, a metric that tracks the relative challenge of adding new blocks to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[191,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-171202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}