$BTC Bitcoin Hashrate Just DROPPED 10% — Nature Took Miners Offline
Bitcoin just felt the impact of Mother Nature.
A brutal winter storm across the U.S. has forced miners to shut down power, triggering a ~10% drop in Bitcoin’s hash rate almost overnight. The hit was especially severe at Foundry USA, the largest Bitcoin mining pool, where available capacity reportedly collapsed by nearly 60%.
This wasn’t a network failure. It was an energy reality check.
When extreme weather strikes, miners are often the first to curtail operations to stabilize local power grids. And when U.S. miners blink, the hash rate reacts instantly. The result? A temporary drop in network security — and a reminder that Bitcoin is still deeply tied to real-world infrastructure.
Historically, these events don’t last. Hash rate tends to recover fast once power returns. But short-term disruptions like this can spark volatility, difficulty adjustments, and renewed debate around geographic concentration of mining.
Bitcoin kept producing blocks.
But the network just got stress-tested — by winter.
Is this just noise… or another signal miners need more geographic diversification?
