{"id":545809,"date":"2026-01-23T14:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=785844"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:39:37","slug":"bitcoin-difficulty-slides-to-september-2025-levels-as-miner-margins-stay-squeezed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/bitcoin-difficulty-slides-to-september-2025-levels-as-miner-margins-stay-squeezed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Difficulty Slides to September 2025 Levels as Miner Margins Stay Squeezed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/greco-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Bitcoin\u2019s mining difficulty eased on Thursday, sliding 3.28% from 146.47 trillion to 141.67 trillion\u2014a level not seen since September 2025, and a welcome breather after months of grind. The adjustment should favor bitcoin miners, especially as revenue per petahash (PH\/s) has slipped 5.45% over the past week, making this recalibration feel less like charity and [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin\u2019s mining difficulty eased on Thursday, sliding 3.28% from 146.47 trillion to 141.67 trillion\u2014a level not seen since September 2025, and a welcome breather after months of grind. The adjustment should favor bitcoin miners, especially as revenue per petahash (PH\/s) has slipped 5.45% over the past week, making this recalibration feel less like charity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":545810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-545809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-mining"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}