{"id":96756,"date":"2026-05-02T16:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/?p=96756"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:05:16","slug":"bitcoin-mining-difficulty-decreases-by-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-decreases-by-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Decreases by 2.3%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 2, following the latest adjustment, the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-hashrate-and-mining-difficulty-in-cryptocurrencies\">mining difficulty<\/a> of the leading cryptocurrency fell by 2.3%, reaching 132.47 T.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-5eb4aec94d2802e7-3328070944370289.webp\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-279433\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/explorer.cloverpool.com\/btc\/insights-difficulty\">CloverPool<\/a>.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The average hash rate at the time of writing stands at 952.5 EH\/s. The block interval has increased to 11 minutes and 30 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/studio.glassnode.com\/metrics?a=BTC&#038;category=&#038;ema=0&#038;m=mining.HashRateMean&#038;mAvg=7&#038;mMedian=0&#038;s=1659268705&#038;u=1674993505&#038;zoom=182\">Glassnode<\/a>, the smoothed 7-day moving average of the network&#8217;s computational power is approximately 955 EH\/s. In mid-April, the figure briefly exceeded 1 ZH\/s.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-6ae8ff2eb5af4dc8-3328071036459351.webp\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-279431\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: Glassnode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Data from <a href=\"https:\/\/data.hashrateindex.com\/network-data\/btc\">Hashrate Index<\/a> indicates that amid the reduction in difficulty, the <span data-descr=\"miners' revenue per unit of computational power expended\" class=\"old_tooltip\">hash price<\/span> exceeded $37 per PH\/s per day for the first time since late January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ed1497fbffd6a7c9-3328071003715168.webp\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-279430\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: Hashrate Index.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Foundry USA remains the largest pool with a hash rate share of nearly 31%, followed by AntPool (15%) and SpiderPool (11%).\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-2652a81ddb4521c9-3328071012741788.webp\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-279432\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/explorer.cloverpool.com\/btc\/insights-pools\">CloverPool<\/a>.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Major miners continue to adhere to a strategy of liquidating reserves. Bitdeer has been selling all mined coins for several consecutive weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bitdeer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BTC<\/a> Weekly Update<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 BTC Holdings: 0 (pure holdings, excluding customer deposits)<br \/>\ud83d\udd39 BTC Output: 186.0 BTC<br \/>\ud83d\udd39 BTC Sold: 186.0 BTC<br \/>\ud83d\udd39 Net BTC Added: 0 BTC<br \/>\ud83d\udcc5 Data as of May 1, 2026.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BTC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BitcoinHoldings?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BitcoinHoldings<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BitcoinCommunity?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BitcoinCommunity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTCMining?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BTCMining<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTDR&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTDR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wvmsEviYqM\">pic.twitter.com\/wvmsEviYqM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bitdeer (@Bitdeer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bitdeer\/status\/2050406891088703943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Over the past seven days, the firm has released 186 BTC to the market, once again reducing its reserves to zero.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Wintermute experts <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/wintermute-declares-traditional-bitcoin-mining-model-obsolete\">stated<\/a> that the traditional business model of Bitcoin miners is becoming obsolete due to declining profitability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 2, following the latest adjustment, the mining difficulty of the leading cryptocurrency fell by 2.3%, reaching 132.47 T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Bitcoin mining difficulty fell by 2.3% to 132.47 T after the latest adjustment.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,1279],"class_list":["post-96756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-hashrate-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Bitcoin mining difficulty fell by 2.3% to 132.47 T after the latest adjustment.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96758,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96756\/revisions\/96758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}