Bitcoin hashrate hits seven-month high as AI shift fails to ease mining competition

CoinTelegraph · Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:50:51 GMT

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Bitcoin mining difficulty is increasing even as the industry shifts toward artificial intelligence, and smaller miners could take over equipment that larger competitors abandon.

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