Bitcoin and Crypto Records Keep on Falling — September 2025

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Month after month, the momentum in this market continues: new price targets and milestone metrics are met, upgrades are being deployed or are in the works, and more companies continue to acquire these major digital assets.

Various blockchains and their respective communities are demonstrating that this market still has a long way to go, particularly in terms of prices.

Today, we’ll look at some major achievements and upcoming developments to watch in this space.

Bitcoin

— Bitcoin’s hashrate continues to climb, after exceeding 1 Zetta hash per second (Zh/S) last week, meaning one sextillion (1 × 1²¹) hashes, or one billion Terahashes, per second.

A higher hash rate strengthens the Bitcoin blockchain, making it increasingly expensive to get and maintain majority control of the network’s mining operations.

— Speaking of Bitcoin’s security, there’s also the important aspect of node distribution, i.e., how many individual computers have Bitcoin’s software running on them to enforce the network’s rules and validate blocks proposed by miners.

— Bitnodes reports over 23,400 reachable nodes, a 22% increase over the past year, and up by 152% over the past eight years.

It’s not only about the number of…