Hashrate Index Roundup (August 3, 2026)

Hello world, happy Monday!

TLDR

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

Over the past week, miners collected a total of ~3,222 BTC in block rewards, equivalent to ~$205 million. Transaction fees constituted 0.77% of block rewards totalling 25 BTC, equivalent to ~$1.57 million.

Bitcoin

Bitcoin moved by -2.6% from ~$64,814 to a current price of ~$63,160. Year-to-date (YTD) performance stands at -26.9%.

Hashprice

USD hashprice moved -1.3% from $32.53 per PH/s/Day to a current $32.10 per PH/s/Day.

BTC hashprice moved +0.2% from 0.00050121 BTC per PH/s/Day to 0.00050222 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 —  $109 per MWh
• 14-19 J/TH fleets —  $79 per MWh
• 19-25 J/TH —  $60 per MWh
• 25-38 J/TH —  $41 per MWh

Hashrate & Difficulty

Network hashrate changed by +6.2%, with the 7-day simple moving average (SMA) moving from 878 EH/s to 932 EH/s. The 30-day SMA currently stands at 910 EH/s.

The latest difficulty adjustment took place on July 25, 2026, changing network difficulty by -0.74% to 126.23T.

Block times have averaged around 9m 56s over the past 24 hours.

We currently estimate +0.67% for the upcoming adjustment, expected to occur on August 8, 2026.

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Transaction Fees

Over the past week, miners collected an average of 0.0249 BTC per block per day in transaction fees, +23% compared to the prior week's 0.0203 BTC.

Looking Forward

For this week's Hashrate Forward Market update, the forward market is pricing in an average hashprice of $30.83 or 0.00048 BTC over the next six months.

Bitcoin Mining Stocks

Bitcoin mining stock trends were mixed throughout the past week.

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 3, 2026 UTC 21:00. 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.