US Winter Storm Curtails Bitcoin Mining; Hashrate Hits 663 EH/s, Rebounds to 854 EH/s

A severe US winter storm over the weekend prompted miners to voluntarily cut loads, briefly weakening Bitcoin network capacity. Hashrate slid to about 663 EH/s before recovering toward 854 EH/s, while crews addressed outages and demand spikes. Price hovered near $88,300, and BTCUSD was seen at 87,866 during the turbulence.