Bitcoin Price and Hashrate Divergence May Set the Scene for a Potential Rally, Historical Data Shows
September’s counter-seasonal price trend has already started to show signs of this divergence trend helping BTC.
September’s counter-seasonal price trend has already started to show signs of this divergence trend helping BTC.
The next difficulty adjustment is expected to decrease mining difficulty, potentially relieving some pressure on miners.
Such expansion comes despite a recent drop in bitcoin (BTC) prices, indicating positive sentiment among miners after a bout of selling in the past few months.
Private equity firms are seeing value in partnering with bitcoin miners to help with AI computing after Core Scientific signed a 200MW deal with CoreWeave in June, the company’s CEO said in an exclusive interview with CoinDesk.
Miners need to continually sell bitcoin rewards to keep operations afloat, and they are stressed during a market downturn.
The funding came from Coatue Management, which is also an investor in CoreWeave, a cloud-computing firm looking to take over miner Core Scientific.
The selling coincides with net outflows from U.S.-listed bitcoin ETFs in the same period, veri shows.
Hashrate for the Bitcoin network typically flattens or declines during North American summer time, industry experts say.
Among those selling, Marathon Digital offloaded 1,400 BTC worth nearly $100 million since the start of the month.
The stocks are undervalued, so miners with attractive power contracts could become M&A targets, according to Wall Street analysts.