Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Falls 14 Percent From Its Yearly High as Weak Revenue Forces Operators Offline

Forward markets signal little relief through year-end, pushing miners to shut older machines or pivot capacity toward other computing work.

Bitcoin's mining difficulty, the automatic measure of how hard it is to produce a block, has fallen about 14 percent from its high for the year, according to CoinDesk. Difficulty adjusts to the total computing power on the network, so a dro…