{"id":672005,"date":"2026-10-16T20:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=856581"},"modified":"2026-10-16T20:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:30:18","slug":"bitcoin-mining-difficulty-jumps-5-92-in-third-largest-hike-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-jumps-5-92-in-third-largest-hike-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Jumps 5.92% in Third-Largest Hike of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-jumps-5-92-in-third-largest-hike-of-2026-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Difficulty changes 2026\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>On Friday, at block height 971712, bitcoin mining grew considerably more demanding as the network\u2019s latest difficulty adjustment climbed 5.92% to 140.58 trillion, marking its highest reading since March 5. Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits Seven-Month High After 5.92% Increase The network\u2019s difficulty, basically how hard miners must work to find the next Bitcoin block, increased [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, at block height 971712, bitcoin mining grew considerably more demanding as the network\u2019s latest difficulty adjustment climbed 5.92% to 140.58 trillion, marking its highest reading since March 5. Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits Seven-Month High After 5.92% Increase The network\u2019s difficulty, basically how hard miners must work to find the next Bitcoin block, increased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":672006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-672005","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\/672005","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=672005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}