Hashing out a future: Is Bitcoin hash rate drop an opportunity in disguise?
China’s crackdown on Bitcoin mining sparks a restructuring of the distribution of the ecosystem, impacting the hash rate in the short run. China’s crackdown on Bitcoin (BTC) mining operations has led to a significant drop in the network’s hash rate, but industry participants believe it presents an incredible opportunity for the wider mining ecosystem.China has long been a major contributor to the Bitcoin mining space, at times accounting for more than 70% of the global hash rate of the world’s preeminent cryptocurrency. That was up until June 2021, when the Chinese government moved to....
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The ratio of Bitcoin price to hash rate presents bulls with a long wait, as hash rate is still migrating. Bitcoin (BTC) has recorded its biggest mining difficulty drop of nearly 28% on July 3, but one model suggests that the BTC price will not bottom until October.In a series of tweets on July 2, investment manager Timothy Peterson flagged the relationship between Bitcoin price and hash rate as arguable evidence that the dip is not over.Bitcoin network hash rate 7-day average. Source: Blockchain.comHash rate model: Long road ahead to Bitcoin bottomBitcoin mining difficulty dropped by an....
The hash rate of the bitcoin network has exceeded (or is very close to) 1 Petahash per second (PH/s), according to various charts online. TradeBlock, which runs its own mining dashboard, reported that the computational power on the bitcoin network exceeded 1,000,000GH/sec over the weekend. As of last night, it was showing that the hash rate had crept down again to just under 914,000GH/s (914TH/s). Blockchain.info had a lower estimate, suggesting a hash rate of a little under 950TH/s last night, while Bitwisdom put it at 955TH/s at the time of writing. Bitcoincharts had it at less - around....
The combination of weak near term technicals, a dip in hash rate, questions over a secretive miner/Core dev meeting, and sustained interest in ETH/ETC has pushed Bitcoin’s exchange rate down more than $20 over the weekend. While the drama continues to run high in the Ethereum universe, Bitcoin has its own little bit of drama going on for the time being. First of all, with Segregated Witness rolling out to production in the next Core release and rumors of miner dissatisfaction over the past month, a group of seven large miners and over a dozen Core devs attended a closed-door meeting this....
In a recent research report from JPMorgan, the financial firm has predicted a harsh drop for one Bitcoin metric, forecasting a potential decline of the Bitcoin Network Hash Rate by 20% leading up to the Bitcoin halving in April 2024. JPMorgan Expects Bitcoin Hash Rate To Drop In the report, JPMorgan stated that the Bitcoin mining industry is at a crucible stage leading all the way to the Bitcoin halving in April 2024 and beyond. This is because the approval of a Spot BTC exchange-traded fund (ETF) could spark a rally against the backdrop of record hash rates and the impending block reward....