2025-12-29 02:22:49

Bitcoin mining is becoming more difficult again. Industry experts predict that the mining difficulty will be adjusted upward to 149T in January next year, marking the Nth time this year. Looking back over the past year, Bitcoin's price has experienced many twists and turns, and mining difficulty has also fluctuated—there were two sharp increases in September when BTC surged, followed by a sudden slowdown in October, causing difficulty to ease temporarily.

It sounds like a numbers game, but the underlying logic is worth pondering. What does a higher difficulty mean? A more secure network and stronger consensus. This is good news for coin holders. But what about miners? Every difficulty adjustment is a red mark on the cost ledger—greater hash power investment, increased electricity costs, and squeezed profit margins.

This leads to an interesting dilemma: network security requires maintaining high difficulty, but high difficulty also continuously filters out mining farms with thin profit margins. In the long run, this natural淘汰 actually strengthens Bitcoin's value foundation—only miners who truly believe in its long-term value will stay, and the rising mining costs add more硬价值 support to BTC itself.

Of course, in the short term, miners are indeed having a tough time.

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GweiObserver

· 9h ago

Here we go again, really getting on my nerves. If the difficulty rises again, miners will have to eat dirt. --- Holders are laughing, miners are crying. This is the reality of Bitcoin. --- 149T? Come on, small mining farms should be cleared out. --- Long-term it’s indeed reasonable, but in the short term, who can hold up? Electricity costs are becoming unaffordable. --- Natural淘汰 sounds nice, but frankly, it’s just about those not making money getting kicked out. --- This round of difficulty adjustment made me want to sell my mining rigs. --- Higher difficulty = network security, but for small miners, it’s just cutting the leeks. --- Another round of reshuffling has begun. Next year, I expect many mining farms to shut down. --- Rising mining costs = BTC’s hard value? Sounds reasonable, but actually, miners are just taking the blame for holders. --- Talking about long-term value, but with no short-term cash flow, what’s there to discuss?

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FudVaccinator

· 9h ago

Here we go again, the difficulty adjustment cycle game, miners' blood pressure is about to spike again 149T, just hearing this number is suffocating, small mining farms really should wash up and go to sleep Holders are smiling, miners are crying, this is the brutal beauty of Bitcoin High difficulty = network security, but the cost is miners' wallets bleeding, no problem It's just an elimination race, survival of the fittest, not everyone is suited to mine Bitcoin Basically, it's different stages of harvesting the leek, and now it's the miners' turn

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ForkThisDAO

· 10h ago

Here it comes again, with difficulty skyrocketing, are miners about to go bankrupt? Mining farms should wake up, this is natural selection. 149T? Laughing to death, how can small mining farms survive? Holders can secretly rejoice, the network is safer now. Short-term pain for long-term value, everyone knows it but still losing money, huh? With such high difficulty, we can only pray that the coin price will also rise. Miners are holding on tough, what else can they do? After this wave of elimination, the remaining mining farms are truly dedicated. To put it simply, it still depends on the coin price; if difficulty is high and price is low, just wait to die.

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