Bitcoin Bitcoin's mining difficulty dropped 11.16% on Saturday to 125.86 trillion, according to data from the Bitcoin network explorer Mempool, marking the largest single negative adjustment since China's sweeping mining ban in July 2021 and the 10th largest negative percentage adjustment of all time, per Bitcoin developer Mononaut. The difficulty adjustment came at block height 935,424, down from 141.67 trillion. Average block times had drifted to roughly 11.4 minutes ahead of the retarget, well above ...