The crypto winter keeps spreading to all sectors of the industry, especially resulting in Bitcoin failing to climb. Besides investors losing their funds due to price crashes, companies also downsize their workforce. Some other crypto firms declared bankruptcy, and many stopped some services to fight liquidity issues. At a point, many miners also found it difficult to pay off their loans on mining equipment due to the price crash. According to reports, the collateral value of their mining rigs became too low to sustain the loans acquired with them. Amid all these crises, the latest reports reveal that the bitcoin mining hash rate has plummeted due to the ongoing price fall. The data on Coinwarz shows that the hash rate fell by more than 26% within one month. Related Reading | Data Suggests Buying On Coinbase Behind The Bitcoin Pump Early in June, the Bitcoin hash rate was high at 292.02 EH/s. This increase brought hope to bitcoin supporters, showing that the network is healthy and not collapsing soon. But a few days ago, on July 9, the hash rate showed 178.44 EH/s but recovered to 241.07 EH/s. Hashrate And Mining Difficulty Levels Hashrate facilitates mining and transaction processing on a crypto network such as Bitcoin. A high hashrate indicates the health of a network. It means that many machines provide enough computational power to keep the network working. Such increased activity convinces investors that a network is ...
