Hashrate Down 20%, Survivors Rewarded
Bitcoin's hashrate has dropped approximately 20% as mining profitability collapsed. Crashing BTC prices and Winter Storm Fern across 34 U.S. states triggered the largest difficulty adjustment since China's 2021 ban. Many miners also shifted to more profitable AI data centers. Bitcoin's self-correcting mechanism now rewards survivors with higher block rewards as inefficient operators exit.

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Bitcoin's price briefly touched $60,000 last week. Under a diminishing returns model, this is no mere noise. The market is touching the weakest link in the entire four-year cycle and logarithmic growth framework.

With the gains at the top of the Bitcoin cycle already significantly compressed, a further historically deep correction would completely negate the allure of its classic cycles.

This is not a prediction; it's a mathematical law.

Cycle Top Gains are Compressing

Historical Bitcoin Cycle Tops:

· 2013: ~$1,242

· 2017: ~$19,700

· 2021: ~...

$55,000 will be the lifeline for Bitcoin.

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