Trouble For Bitcoin Miners? Hashprice Falls To All-Time Lows

Data shows the Bitcoin mining hashrate has remained at high levels recently, despite the hashprice observing a deep plunge. Bitcoin Hashrate Has Continued To Be Near All-Time Highs Recently The “mining hashrate” refers to the total computing power currently connected to the Bitcoin blockchain. The metric is measured in terms of hashes per second, where […]

Better luck next time? Luxor’s OTC Bitcoin mining derivatives could offer miners “a much needed tool to hedge their mining operations.” Hedging against downside has always been a challenge for Bitcoin BTC miners, and the current bear market is a perfect example of how energy prices and crypto market volatility can negatively impact miners’ profit margins and their ability to stay solvent. Oftentimes, institutional and retail traders use BTC-, stablecoin- and U.S. dollar-settled derivatives (options and futures contracts) to create hedging strategies that mitigate downside in Bitcoin price,....

Bitcoin reversed below $20,000 once more after the sell-offs that followed the completion of the Ethereum Merge. With the decline, the digital asset had revisited lows not seen in three months, giving credence to the bears during this time. However, one problem remains, and that is the fact that the cryptocurrency has been unable to find suitable support, causing the downtrend to continue. Bitcoin Price Falls To Range Lows Over the last week, bitcoin has seen multiple declines in its price. The Ethereum Merge had turned into a “buy the rumor” event which led to massive accumulation across....

Miners in Vietnam have expressed grievances over the loss of business following Ethereum’s transition to a consensus mechanism that does not require the energy-intensive computing they were providing. Many are in trouble, local media reported, quoting entrepreneurs and mining enthusiasts. Cryptocurrency Miners Hit by The Merge, Vietnam Report Reveals Vietnam’s crypto miners have suffered heavy losses with their mining rigs now shut off after the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization switched to a more energy-efficient framework, VN Express noted in....

Bitcoin miners are churning less in revenue, looking at trackers on August 28. According to Hashrate Index data, a platform that tracks the correlation between hash rate and revenue accrued by miners over time, income generated from Bitcoin mining operations is at near record lows. Bitcoin Miner Revenue Declining At $0.059 per Tera Hash (TH) daily, the trend doesn’t look exciting for Bitcoin miners as it is cents away from $0.056, a level recorded in late November 2022. At the depth of last year’s crypto winter when prices fell, cracking below $16,000, hash price, which measures the....