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Bitcoin's 7-day average hashrate stood at 914 EH/s as of August 31, 20.6% below the 1,151.6 EH/s peak recorded in October 2025, marking 316 days without a new high, while BTC.network's August 28 weekly report showed 900.6 EH/s and difficulty at 125.81T. Lower difficulty mechanically improves miner margins and hash price in the near term, but with miners increasingly committing power capacity and sites to AI and HPC contracts, idled rigs may return more slowly than in prior cycles, muting the usual reflexive rebound in network security spend. Watch whether the next difficulty adjustments bring the 7-day average back above the low-900 EH/s range; a continued drift lower would confirm that hosting economics, not BTC price, is now the binding constraint on hashrate growth.
As a Research signal, watch whether it changes price action, volatility, or flows around BTC.
Original Source: 토큰포스트
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