{"id":93466,"date":"2026-01-22T23:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=93466"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:10:27","slug":"bitcoin-mining-difficulty-decreases-by-3-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-decreases-by-3-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Decreases by 3.28%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 22, following the latest adjustment, the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-hashrate-and-mining-difficulty-in-cryptocurrencies\">mining difficulty<\/a> of the leading cryptocurrency decreased by 3.28% to 141.67 T.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-7b830265f17b93f5-4328573846557151-1024x709.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-273871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-7b830265f17b93f5-4328573846557151-1024x709.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-7b830265f17b93f5-4328573846557151-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-7b830265f17b93f5-4328573846557151-768x531.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-7b830265f17b93f5-4328573846557151.png 1094w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/explorer.cloverpool.com\/btc\/insights-difficulty\">CloverPool<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The previous adjustment also saw a reduction of 1.2%. This marks the second consecutive correction.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, Bitcoin&#8217;s hash rate remains above 1 ZH\/s. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/studio.glassnode.com\/charts\/mining.HashRateMean?a=BTC&#038;category=&#038;ema=0&#038;mAvg=7&#038;mMedian=0&#038;s=1723468067&#038;u=1768003200&#038;zoom=\">Glassnode<\/a>, the seven-day moving average hash rate is at 1.01 ZH\/s. On January 17, the value <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-hashrate-drops-to-four-month-low\">reached<\/a> a local low of 977 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-bb25ee32f421aa2e-4328573913179255-1024x576.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-273873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-bb25ee32f421aa2e-4328573913179255-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-bb25ee32f421aa2e-4328573913179255-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-bb25ee32f421aa2e-4328573913179255-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-bb25ee32f421aa2e-4328573913179255-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-bb25ee32f421aa2e-4328573913179255.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Glassnode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The largest share of the global hash rate is held by Foundry USA at 31.1%, followed by AntPool at 15.6%, and F2Pool at 9.8%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-412e0d8601078265-4328573925386473-1024x715.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-273874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-412e0d8601078265-4328573925386473-1024x715.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-412e0d8601078265-4328573925386473-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-412e0d8601078265-4328573925386473-768x536.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-412e0d8601078265-4328573925386473.png 1093w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/explorer.cloverpool.com\/btc\/insights-pools\">CloverPool<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/data.hashrateindex.com\/network-data\/btc\">Hashrate Index<\/a>, the hash price is at $38.4 per PH\/s per day. Around mid-January, miners&#8217; revenue per computational power reached $42.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-c83c18f915681593-4328573913231801-1024x326.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-273872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-c83c18f915681593-4328573913231801-1024x326.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-c83c18f915681593-4328573913231801-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-c83c18f915681593-4328573913231801-768x244.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-c83c18f915681593-4328573913231801-1536x489.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-c83c18f915681593-4328573913231801.png 1577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Hashrate Index.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier, on January 20, a solo miner <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/solo-miner-earns-289191-from-bitcoin-block-mining\">mined<\/a> block #933,034 on the Bitcoin network, earning a reward of 3.131 BTC ($289,191).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 22, following the latest adjustment, the mining difficulty of the leading cryptocurrency decreased by 3.28% to 141.67 T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93467,"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 decreased by 3.28% to 141.67 T.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1137,1279],"class_list":["post-93466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-hashrate-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"184","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Bitcoin mining difficulty decreased by 3.28% to 141.67 T.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93468,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93466\/revisions\/93468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}