[Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Sees Second Largest Drop of the Year] According to a report by TheEnergyMag on June 14, as reported by Jinse Finance, the sharp decline in Bitcoin prices in early June has led to a significant drop in network hash rate. As a result, Bitcoin mining difficulty is expected to decrease by approximately 9.55%, marking the second largest drop this year. This adjustment will reduce the computational power required to produce blocks over the next two weeks (one difficulty adjustment cycle), thereby directly increasing the unit hash rate revenue for active miners on the network. Analysts point out that if the price of Bitcoin and network transaction fees remain stable, this 9.55% difficulty reduction could boost BTC output for active hash rates by over 9%, potentially driving the network hash rate back above $30/PH/s. In addition to older mining rigs being voluntarily shut down due to economic factors, another key driver of the hash rate decline is the reallocation of some electricity capacity toward high-performance computing (HPC) and AI data centers.