Survival Of The Strongest: Bitcoin Miners Face Tough Choices As Selling Press...
Bitcoin journey in the new year continues to demonstrate less upward momentum, with its price recently dropping below the $95,000 price mark. Amid this movement, the market seems to be witnessing a notable trend among miners as they grapple with the effects of rising values and selling pressure. Insights from XBTManager, a CryptoQuant contributor, shed light on the challenges facing Bitcoin miners and the broader implications for the cryptocurrency market. Related Reading: Bitcoin May Rally In Q1 2025 Driven By US Fed’s Money Printing, Predicts Arthur Hayes Miners Feel the Pressure As....
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Selling pressure had been mounting on public bitcoin miners over the last couple of months. This was a direct result of the decline in the price of the digital asset, which saw the cash flow for bitcoin miners plummet significantly. It came out to an over 60% decline in profitability, and given that miners continue […]
Miners face an impossible situation if prices stay this low, which could result in a sell-off accompanied by a BTC price macro low. Bitcoin (BTC) miners could form the next BTC price “trigger,” research warns as withdrawals intensify.In a Quicktake post for on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant on Nov. 10, contributor MAC.D suggested that miners could soon face “bankruptcy.”Research: Network conditions “will strangle” minersAfter BTC/USD fell 20% in a matter of days, miners began operating at a higher cost than the block subsidy and transaction fees they earned.The result is mining rigs....
Data shows Bitcoin miners have been selling in recent weeks as their revenues have come under stress due to the struggling price of the crypto. Bitcoin Miners Are Currently Selling An Average Of 3.3k BTC Per Month As per the latest weekly report from Glassnode, miners had been accumulating during the initial drawdown from the […]
Bitcoin miners generated more than $56 million on average per day in April 2021, making it the industry’s second strongest month ever.
Bitcoin miners have borne the brunt of the bear trend since it began. They watched cash flow plummet on their machines, forcing them to look to other ways to finance their operations. The natural response to this was for public miners to dip into their bitcoin reserves and begin selling off BTC to keep their operations going. For a time, it seemed miners would stop selling due to the recovery in price, but this is proving not to be the case. Miners Offload More BTC Bitcoin miners had sold off more bitcoin than they had mined for the first time in May. The same trend then continued into....