{"id":571846,"date":"2026-03-21T02:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=800351"},"modified":"2026-03-21T02:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:02:01","slug":"bitcoin-mining-difficulty-drops-7-76-as-hashprice-struggles-to-support-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-drops-7-76-as-hashprice-struggles-to-support-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drops 7.76% as Hashprice Struggles to Support Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mine-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drops 7.76% as Hashprice Struggles to Support Miners\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>As projections anticipated, Bitcoin\u2019s difficulty adjusted downward at block height 941472, falling 7.76% and easing the path for miners to find blocks over the next two weeks. The network has now logged six difficulty adjustments this year, with the metric sitting nearly 10% below its level at the close of 2025. Lower Bitcoin Difficulty Offers [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As projections anticipated, Bitcoin\u2019s difficulty adjusted downward at block height 941472, falling 7.76% and easing the path for miners to find blocks over the next two weeks. The network has now logged six difficulty adjustments this year, with the metric sitting nearly 10% below its level at the close of 2025. Lower Bitcoin Difficulty Offers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":571847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-571846","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\/571846","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=571846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}