Hashrate Index Roundup (August 17, 2026)

Hello world, happy Monday!

TLDR

A mixed bag for this week's update: Bitcoin down, hashrate up, difficulty flat, fees down; hashprice is up.

Over the past week, miners collected a total of ~3,178 BTC in block rewards, equivalent to ~$201 million. Transaction fees constituted 0.69% of block rewards totalling 22 BTC, equivalent to ~$1.39 million.

Bitcoin

Bitcoin moved by -1.0% from ~$64,921 to a current price of ~$64,259. Year-to-date (YTD) performance stands at -26.4%.

Hashprice

USD hashprice moved 0.3% from $31.79 per PH/s/Day to a current $31.89 per PH/s/Day.

BTC hashprice moved -0.1% from 0.00049639 BTC per PH/s/Day to 0.00049565 BTC per PH/s/Day.

Based on fleetwide efficiency, bitcoin mining operations are currently earning the following bitcoin mining (SHA-256) compute revenues per watt-hour:

• Under 14 J/TH fleets — $107 per MWh
• 14-19 J/TH fleets — $79 per MWh
• 19-25 J/TH — $59 per MWh
• 25-38 J/TH — $41 per MWh

Hashrate & Difficulty

Network hashrate changed by 0.9%, with the 7-day simple moving average (SMA) moving from 912 EH/s to 920 EH/s. The 30-day SMA currently stands at 920 EH/s.

The latest difficulty adjustment took place on August 8, 2026, changing network difficulty by +0.99% to 127.48T.

Block times have averaged around 9m 54s over the past 24 hours.

We currently estimate +1.01% for the upcoming adjustment, expected to occur on August 22, 2026.

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Transaction Fees

Over the past week, miners collected an average of 0.0210 BTC per block per day in transaction fees, -7% compared to the prior week's 0.0226 BTC.

Looking Forward

For this week's Hashrate Forward Market update, the forward market is pricing in an average hashprice of $30.67 or 0.00048 BTC over the next six months.

Bitcoin Mining Stocks

5-day changes to Bitcoin mining stocks as of last week's market close:

Have a great week, and Happy Hashing!

Footnotes

1. As of August 17, 2026 UTC 20:00. Values are subject to change.
2. Luxor estimates the adjustment date using average block times and blocks remaining in the epoch. Values are subject to change.
3. Luxor estimates the difficulty adjustment using average block times. Values are subject to change.