Miners Holding On for Dear Life: Hashrate Reclaims 1 ZH/s While Hashprice Gets Crushed

Bitcoin's hashrate is back above 1,000 exahash per second, hitting 1.02 ZH/s (1,022 EH/s) as of March 28. The seven-day average sits at 1,007 EH/s — up from 931 EH/s just ten days ago, meaning miners have thrown roughly 76 EH/s of additional hashpower onto the network. Somewhere in a warehouse in Texas, a row of ASICs is currently heating up your grandmother's retirement fund while the lights stay off in the miner's bank account.

Here's the thing: hashprice isn't celebrating. It's down 6.65% over the past three days, sliding from a March high of $33.85 per PH/s per day to $31.60. That's a $2.25 drop in 72 hours. Imagine watching your paycheck shrink by 7% while your landlord asks if you've considered running a space heater in your apartment for warmth. That's basically the miner experience right now.

The last difficulty adjustment brought things down 7.76%. The next one is due April 2, and the network is pricing in a 6.43% increase. Blocks have been coming in hot — averaging one every 9 minutes and 23 seconds over the past day. About 1,200 of the 2,016 blocks needed for the next adjustment have already been found. Difficulty is about to hit these miners with another nerf bat, and the blocks are showing up