Data from Coin.dance - corroborated by other sources - indicates that the network's hash rate plummeted yesterday from over 98,000,000 TH/S to 57,700,000 TH/s.

Mystery flash crash remains unexplained

The flash drop remains unexplained as of press time and is all the more striking given the Bitcoin network's record-breaking string of new all-time high hash rates throughout summer.

Just five days ago, Cointelegraph had reported that Bitcoin's hash rate had passed a record 102 quintillion hashes in a historic milestone.