Bitcoin Difficulty Drops 10% to Lowest Level Since July 2025 as Hashrate Cools

**This week, [Bitcoin](https://www.binance.com/en/price/bitcoin)’s difficulty epoch at block height 953568 delivered the year’s second-steepest downward adjustment to date. Following this weekend’s recalibration and looking ahead to the next two weeks, the latest difficulty reading of 124.93 trillion now stands as the lowest level recorded in 2026 and the weakest mark posted since July 12, 2025.** [Add us on Google](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.bitcoin.com%2F) WRITTEN BY [Jamie Redman](https://news.bitcoin.com/author/jamieredman/) SHARE