Bitcoin is trading near $64,600 after moving between approximately $63,250 and $65,040 during the latest session. The market remains caught between recovering institutional demand and macroeconomic uncertainty, with the $65,000–$66,700 region acting as an important resistance zone.
Ionic Digital made a strong Nasdaq debut, with its shares rising approximately 26% on the first day of trading. The company, originally built around Bitcoin mining assets acquired from Celsius, is increasingly transforming its energy infrastructure to serve artificial intelligence and high-performance computing projects.
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty decreased by approximately 5% during the network’s latest adjustment, falling from 133.87 trillion to 127.17 trillion. The reduction eases mining conditions for operators that remain connected to the network.
Bitcoin mining company CleanSpark announced that it mined 614 BTC during June 2026. The company’s operational hashrate reached 50 exahashes per second, while its total Bitcoin holdings increased to 13,924 BTC by the end of the month.
With Bitcoin mining economics under pressure from historically low hashprice levels of mining revenue and rising network competition, AI and HPC infrastructure revenue has emerged as a stabilizing and, in some cases, significantly larger growth driver.
Bitcoin miners are back to business as usual after last month’s Arctic blast iced operations across the U.S., and the network’s hashrate has clawed its way back above the 1 zettahash per second (ZH/s) mark. Even so, mining revenue is painfully lean to start March at under $30 per petahash per second (PH/s), and difficulty is projected to climb yet again.
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