By late 2025, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has shattered the 150 trillion mark — a level that would’ve sounded impossible just a few years ago.
For context, when Bitcoin went live in 2009, the difficulty was literally 1. Today, that number reflects an unfathomable amount of global computing power relentlessly working to secure the network — a scale no other blockchain or system in history comes close to.
But this milestone cuts both ways. Yes, it cements Bitcoin as the most battle-tested and secure digital network ever built. At the same time, it dramatically increases the cost of producing each coin, pushing inefficient miners to the edge and reshaping the mining landscape. Survival now belongs to scale, efficiency, and cheap energy.
