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On January 8th, as a result of another recalculation, the mining difficulty of the first cryptocurrency decreased by 1.2% — to 146.47 T.
The previous time, the indicator increased by a negligible 0.04%, temporarily halting the series of declines.
At the time of writing, Bitcoin's hash rate remains above 1 ZH/s. According to Glassnode, the smoothed seven-day moving average is at 1.04 ZH/s.
The share of public mining companies in Bitcoin’s computational power has exceeded 40%. The largest is MARA Holdings with 5.9% of the global hash rate.
In the context of pools, Foundry USA has concentrated 29%, AntPool accounts for 15.5%, and ViaBTC — 12.9%. The hash price is at $38 per PH/s per day. Shortly before the difficulty decrease, the miners’ profitability metric surpassed $40 for the first time since November 2025.