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Bitcoin Miner Capitulation Reaches Black Thursday Levels, Is A Severe Selloff Looming?

Tony Spilotro by Tony Spilotro
10 months ago
in Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency news
Reading Time: 3min read
Bitcoin Miner Capitulation Reaches Black Thursday Levels, Is A Severe Selloff Looming?
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Bitcoin price continues to consolidate above $9,000 but has repeatedly failed to break above $10,000. The lower the asset’s value gets, the more it falls below the cost of production for many miners.

A key metric measuring the impact price action has on miner operations, is signaling that more miners are capitulating during the current price action than during Black Thursday. If prices continue to decline, what might this mean for miners powering the Bitcoin protocol?

Hash Ribbons Signal Worse BTC Miner Capitulation Than Black Thursday Caused

Bitcoin price is trading at just under $9,500 currently, still up over 140% from the low set on the historic day now known as Black Thursday 2020.

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Despite the asset trading at nearly 3 times the value from the bottom set back then, the current price action is causing a comparable amount of Bitcoin miners to capitulate.

Related Reading | Dump Incoming? Bitcoin Price Action Matches Wyckoff Distribution Model 

According to a tool developed by Bitcoin researcher Charles Edwards dubbed the Hash Ribbons, miners are capitulating at a similar rate compared to when Bitcoin was trading at such lows. But what’s the reason for this?

bitcoin hash ribbons miners
Source: TradingView

Post-Halving Bitcoin Price Trades Far Below Cost of Production, Adding Sell Pressure To Bear Market

All of miner’s profit margins depend on the current market price of Bitcoin and the current cost of energy and other operational expenditures.

The higher the price of Bitcoin and the lower the opex, the better the margins and the more profitable the business.

However, when the cost of producing each BTC falls below the always fluctuating market price of the cryptocurrency, miners either take the loss or more likely, shut down their machines until either difficulty adjusts or prices rise to more profitable levels.

During the Black Thursday market collapse, the price per BTC fell so low, it immediately began causing miners to capitulate in the days following.

Now, the Hash Ribbons, a tool used to gauge the impact of miners on Bitcoin price and the health of the network, is showing a similar capitulation event taking place across the mining industry. But why exactly this happening when Bitcoin price is trading at more than double the price it was then?

The answer is due to the halving. Come early May, the block reward miners receive was slashed in half from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC. This also doubled the cost of producing each BTC overnight.

bitcoin hash ribbons miners
Source: TradingView

In the chart above, the Cost of Production indicator demonstrates just how significantly the metric is below the price of the first-ever cryptocurrency currently.

Looking at the differences, indicated by the dark red shaded area above BTCUSD price action, the asset’s price is currently trading at the largest discrepancy in the cost of production over the last two years.

Related Reading | Bitcoin Slides As Greater Financial Market Is a Sea of Red, How Far Will BTC Drop? 

This suggests that the current capitulation in miners may be worse than the drop to the bear market bottom at $3,200, and the retest from Black Thursday that saw prices break under $4,000 abruptly.

If Bitcoin price drops further from here, the selloff due to miners closing up shop and selling off their remaining BTC holdings could send prices tumbling further.

It will be interesting to see how price action further develops in relation to the cost of production. When the Hash Ribbons do eventually signal that capitulation is over, it will likely give the final buy signal before the next bull market finally begins.

 

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I'm Tony Spilotro. Behind the pseudonym, I'm a global remote work leader with a decade of award-winning content experience and excellence. Here, I explore my newfound passions pertaining to privacy, finance, economics, politics, cryptography, property rights, and other libertarian-esque views. I am a Bitcoin evangelist, maximalist, and educator whenever I can be, helping to spread its message of freedom from government control, monetary policy mismanagement, and passing the buck - literally – to future generations. My journey from a curious retail crypto investor to a serious Bitcoin advocate, trader, and technical analyst is an unusual one, but life-changing nonetheless and has become less about money and more about a long-overdue revolution. While a firm believer in the laws governing math and science, I am profoundly fascinated by the impact of astrology and astronomy including moon and solar cycles and planetary alignment and their ability to influence and potentially predict markets. It hasn't yet clicked for me as to how to put anything to use, but I consider it my current rabbit hole I can't yet dig out of. My perspective of growing up alongside the internet, the dot com era, the Great Recession, and roots in video games collecting coins and rare items caused Bitcoin to immediately make sense to me. Through all of these lenses, I seek to produce content that is educational and entertaining, and I thank you sincerely for taking the time to read what I have to say. Please follow me on Twitter and feel free to drop me a line if you would like to work together.

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