The Bitcoin mining difficulty (BTC) dropped slightly on Saturday after reaching a historic summit of 126.9 Billions on May 31 at the start of the previous difficulty adjustment period.
Bitcoin’s extraction level of extraction difficulties currently amounts to around 126.4 Billions, according to Cryptochent data.
Higher mining difficulties and a network hashrate, which is a distinct but related measure of total computing power, guaranteeing the Bitcoin protocol, both result in increased competition from minors and higher production costs.
Minors continue to cope with financial pressures of the reduced reward of the block after the reduction of half 2024, the increase in operational costs and the increase in mining difficulties, which have changed the calculation of mining companies that fight to remain profitable.
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Certain mining companies listed on the stock market overturn the trend and expand operations, despite the opposite winds
Despite the challenges that minors within the highly competitive industry face, certain Bitcoin mining companies listed in public widen their operational capacity and choose to keep their mined BTC as a cash i.e..
The Mara mining company announced that it increased BTC production by 35% in May, in the midst of a recreational level and market volatility.
On April 5, Hashrate of the Bitcoin network crossed 1 Zetahash per second (ZH / S) in computing power – an important step for the decentralized monetary protocol.
Despite this, Mara announced that he had extracted 950 Bitcoin in May and increased her business cash reserves to 49,179 BTC, making him one of the biggest Bitcoin holders in the world.
“Month of record production for Mara – and we sold zero Bitcoin,” wrote the financial director of the company Salman Khan in a position of June 3.
Cleanspark, a public bitcoin minor focused on network security thanks to clean energy, also increased its BTC production in May 2025.
The company has undermined 694 BTC during the month, an increase of 9% compared to production in April, bringing its total reserves to 12,502 BTC, according to its monthly report.
“We increased our end -of -month hashrate to 45.6 exams per second (EH / S), up 7.5% sequentially,” wrote the president and chief executive officer of Cleanspard, Zack Bradford, in the May update.
The growing trend of mining companies accumulating Bitcoin as a treasury active also represents a significant change in the commercial strategy for mining companies that have traditionally sold their parts to cover operational costs.
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