Bitcoin Turns up the Heat: Difficulty Jumps Nearly 8% as Payouts Dip
2025-07-12 19:15:32
Main Idea
Bitcoin mining difficulty increased by 7.96% on June 12, 2025, making it harder to mine blocks and reducing miner payouts per petahash per second.
Key Points
1. Bitcoin mining difficulty rose to 126.27 trillion on June 12, 2025, at block height 905184.
2. The 7.96% increase in difficulty makes it more challenging to discover new blocks.
3. Miner payouts decreased from roughly $64.03 to $59.01 per petahash per second (PH/s) after the adjustment.
4. The difficulty metric is dimensionless, comparing current mining difficulty to Bitcoin's initial setting of 1.
Description
Bitcoin miners faced a 7.96% hike in difficulty on June 12, 2025, when block height 905184 was reached—pushing the number up to 126.27 trillion. Snagging BTC just got trickier. Saturday’s difficulty tweak pushed the level 7.96% higher, marking the ninth time it’s climbed this year, alongside five times it’s been dialed down. The difficulty figure
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