Miners Took In $1.215B in October as Hashprice Fell 17.54%
October paid bitcoin miners $1.215 billion, the most since November 2025, while hashprice fell 17.54% over the same 31 days.
Miners, hardware & hashrate
October paid bitcoin miners $1.215 billion, the most since November 2025, while hashprice fell 17.54% over the same 31 days.

Difficulty is due to rise about 6% at block 973,728. mempool.space put the change at 5.976% with 76 blocks to go, which would leave it short of the 2025 peak.

The 16 October retarget lifted difficulty to 140.58 trillion, its highest since March, after network computing power climbed back above 1 ZH/s.

The capital increase values the group at 6.1 billion euros. Its own announcement does not mention bitcoin mining, the business the sites were built for.

The September lookback prices the pairing of a prepaid forward on mining power with an offsetting cash-settled contract at 6% to 13% a year, quoted in bitcoin.

The 19 September retarget took difficulty to 132.76 trillion while hashrate sat near 914 EH/s. Three estimators disagree on what comes next.

Ethiopian Electric Power is delivering about 23% of what miners contracted for, blaming low reservoir inflows. Mining was 35% of its revenue last year.

Four accounts of the decline agree on the direction and disagree on the peak, the depth and the length. The capital is moving to AI data centres.

AI cloud brought IREN $70.5 million in the June quarter against $66.7 million from bitcoin mining, the first time the split has gone that way. The quarter cost $684 million.

Difficulty rose 0.99% to 127.48T at the 8 August retarget, above all three published estimates, while hashrate and hashprice readings still refuse to agree.

Bitcoin's second difficulty reset of July barely moved, a flat line after the 5% cut two weeks earlier and a sign that hashrate has stopped leaving the network.

Bitcoin's mining difficulty fell 5.00% to 127.17 trillion on July 11, the second large downward move in a month, lifting hashprice 12.5% to $31.1.