{"id":547378,"date":"2026-01-27T03:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/bitcoin-hashrate-briefly-drops-to-mid-2025-levels-amid-us-winter-storm\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:54:38","slug":"bitcoin-hashrate-briefly-drops-to-mid-2025-levels-amid-us-winter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/bitcoin-hashrate-briefly-drops-to-mid-2025-levels-amid-us-winter-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin hashrate briefly drops to mid-2025 levels amid US winter storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bitcoin<\/p>\n

Bitcoin mining data platform Hashrate Index estimates the United States contributes the largest amount of the world\u2019s mining power, with nearly 38% of the global hashrate.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin network hashrate hit a seven-month low over the weekend as a massive winter storm bombarded the United States with snow and ice, pushing miners to curtail operations to stabilize the energy grid.<\/p>\n

American weather forecasting company AccuWeather reported<\/a> on Monday that the massive winter storm<\/a> affected three dozen states over the weekend, with widespread snow, ice, and power outages affecting one million energy customers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Data from mining data tool CoinWarz shows<\/a> that Bitcoin\u2019s (BTC<\/a>) network hashrate began to drop<\/a> on Friday, and by Sunday, it hit 663 exahashes per second (EH\/s) \u2014 a more than 40% slump in hashrate across two days. <\/p>\n

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Bitcoin mining data platform Hashrate Index estimates the United States contributes the largest amount of the world\u2019s mining power, with nearly 38% of the global hashrate. Bitcoin network hashrate hit a seven-month low over the weekend as a massive winter storm bombarded the United States with snow and ice, pushing miners to curtail operations to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":547379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-547378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547378","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=547378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}