{"id":68503,"date":"2026-02-20T07:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/bitcoin-difficulty-whipsaws-from-11-slide-to-14-73-climb-in-2-weeks\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:08:37","slug":"bitcoin-difficulty-whipsaws-from-11-slide-to-14-73-climb-in-2-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/bitcoin-difficulty-whipsaws-from-11-slide-to-14-73-climb-in-2-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Difficulty Whipsaws From 11% Slide to 14.73% Climb in 2 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>Following the prior difficulty recalibration that occurred 2,016 blocks ago\u2014roughly two weeks back on Feb. 7\u2014the Bitcoin protocol has now delivered a sharp counterpunch. On Thursday, at block height 937440, mining difficulty climbed 14.73%, effectively wiping out the earlier steep reduction and reminding participants that in this arena, gravity is optional and reversals are swift. [&#8230;]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/bitcoin-difficulty-whipsaws-from-11-slide-to-14-73-climb-in-2-weeks\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Following the prior difficulty recalibration that occurred 2,016 blocks ago\u2014roughly two weeks back on Feb. 7\u2014the Bitcoin protocol has now delivered a sharp counterpunch. On Thursday, at block height 937440, mining difficulty climbed 14.73%, effectively wiping out the earlier steep reduction and reminding participants that in this arena, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":68504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}