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Bitcoin's price climbed much faster than network difficulty this quarter, so every Bitcoin miner now earns more for the same work.
By Michal Beno, CEO, OneMiners
30 September 2026 · 4 min read
What happened
Bitcoin mining got more rewarding this quarter. Hashprice, the revenue one petahash of computing power earns per day, rose from a low of about $28 in July to about $40 today, a gain of roughly 43%. Bitcoin's price rose sharply while network difficulty barely moved.
Bitcoin closed June near $60,000 and trades around $83,200 today. Over the same stretch, mining difficulty, the number that sets how hard it is to find a block, moved from 124.9 trillion in mid June to 132.76 trillion after the 19 September adjustment. Price rose about 38%. Difficulty rose about 6%. That gap goes straight into every Bitcoin miner's daily revenue.
$39.71
hashprice per PH per day
132.76T
network difficulty
950 EH/s
difficulty-implied hashrate
-14.9%
difficulty vs Oct 2025 peak
mempool.space and CoinGecko, read 30 September 2026. Hashprice includes transaction fees of about 0.8% of the block subsidy.
Difficulty is still well below its peak
Difficulty hit an all-time high of 155.97 trillion in October 2025. Since then, high-cost operators have unplugged older machines, and some public miners have moved power over to AI data centres. Two big drops stand out: -11.2% in February and -10.1% in June, the largest cuts of 2026. The network has only partly refilled that space.
Bitcoin mining difficulty in 2026
Trillions, at each two-week adjustment
The next adjustment is due around 3 October. estimates range from about -0.7% (Luxor) to +0.5% (mempool.space), so it looks roughly flat, and the gain in revenue per machine should hold into October unless Bitcoin's price reverses.
What a higher hashprice means for your Bitcoin miner
A higher hashprice raises the break-even electricity price, which is the most your power can cost before a machine stops paying for itself. The formula is simple: break-even rate = hashprice / (24 x efficiency in J/TH).
Break-even electricity price at today's hashprice
US dollars per kWh, by machine efficiency
Every current-generation machine clears OneMiners' published hosting rates, which start at $0.048 per kWh in Nigeria and go down to $0.0364 on a 7-year prepaid contract. Even an older S19k Pro now has room to spare, which it did not have in July.
THE ONEMINERS VIEW
Rallies come and go, but the power bill stays. The miners who do best over time are the ones who lock in cheap electricity before the good months, not during them. OneMiners publishes every rate on its hosting centers page, with fixed contracts for up to seven years.
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- Difficulty, hashrate and adjustment estimate: mempool.space, read 30 September 2026; Luxor Hashrate Index, 28 September 2026
- Bitcoin price and monthly closes: CoinGecko, 30 September 2026
- July 2026 hashprice low: OneMiners calculation from daily difficulty and price data
- Hosting rates: published OneMiners location pages
Michal Beno
CEO of OneMiners, the global Bitcoin mining hosting and hardware platform with 15 published hosting locations, 7-year fixed electricity contracts and a 7-year hardware warranty. He writes about the economics of industrial Bitcoin mining.
Informational only, not financial advice. Figures are a snapshot from public market data and news reports as of 30 September 2026 and can change quickly. Crypto prices can fall as well as rise. No return is offered or implied. Do your own research.
