Hashrate Index Roundup (August 27, 2023)

Bitcoin's price is hanging on like a kid clinging to the final days of summer vacation.

Floating just above $26,000, Bitcoin is back to levels we saw at the beginning of summer. After last week's difficulty adjustment set a new difficulty all-time high, hashprice dipped briefly below $60/PH/day for a weekly low of $59/PH/day.

At current hashprice levels, the daily profit margins for popular rigs when hashing at $0.07/KWh power are as follows:

• S19 XP: $3.4
• M50S+: $2.7
• S19j Pro: $1.1
• M30S++: $0.90
• S19: $0.30
• M30S+: $0.30

Not the most comfortable spreads when you take the April 2024 Halving into account. Still, with hashrate tapering downward after the difficulty all-time high, we may be just lucky enough to get a negative adjustment next go-round; currently, our estimate is projecting a -4.76% decrease with 34% of the current epoch underway, but this could change drastically depending on whether hashrate rises or falls further over the next week and a half.

Bitcoin Mining Market Update

Bitcoin's hashrate hit an all-time high on the 7-day average of 417 EH/s on August 17. Since then, it has fallen 7% to 388 EH/s. The retraction is likely a combination of: 1) higher-cost miners dropping off the network on account of the recent hashprice squeeze, and 2) the fact that blistering heat disrupted Texas' power grid last week, which means that the big miners were curtailing power draw during the related price spikes.

Transaction fees kicked up again this week as new and anticipated inscription collections hit the scene (namely, the Ordinal Maxi Biz collection).

Bitcoin Mining News

Here are last week's top headlines for Bitcoin mining news:

• U.S. Crypto Tax Proposal Lets Miners Off the Hook, Snares ‘Some’ Decentralized Exchanges
• Dropbox Discontinues Unlimited Storage, Cites Chia Mining as Major Factor
• Pennsylvania battle over crypto mines intensifies
• Where top crypto miners stand as stock prices tumble
• Bitcoin miner gets life in prison, China offers bounties for crypto firms: Asia Express

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Bitcoin Mining Stocks Update

With the exception of two stocks in our update, Bitcoin mining stocks across the board continued to retrace last week with Bitcoin's own price outlook weakening. Our Crypto Mining Stock Index fell 3.5%.

Weekly changes to Bitcoin mining stocks:

• RIOT: $10.37 (-6.58%)
• HUT: $2.27 (-7.35%)
• BITF: $1.26 (-5.26%)
• HIVE: $3.45 (-11.54%)
• MARA: $10.55 (-7.13%)
• CLSK: $4.56 (-13.14%)
• IREN: $4.18 (-6.28%)
• WULF: $1.90 (-5.25%)
• CIFR: $2.97 (-1%)
• BTDR: $14.00(+6.95%)
• SDIG: $5.59 (+3.33%)

Have a great week, and Happy Hashing!