BTC Hash Rate Drops 40% As Miner Capitulation Fear Hovers

The BTC Hash rate drops by 40 percent due to the recent market crash and will put the cost of mining at around $8,000. The charts show that since the 8^th of March, the BTC production cost and miner cash flow reached almost $7,700, so let’s read more about it in the following bitcoin news.

BTC broke through the level last week during the crash, and it fell lower to $3,800 in the recent price drop. This move convinced a lot of the miners operating on tight margins that there’s a danger they could go bankrupt, turn off their mining machines and send the overall Bitcoin network into a death spiral. There’s no evidence of a full-blown spiral, but there is evidence showing that the crash on the market has started to affect the miners.

According to the latest data that we have in our Bitcoin news, the BTC hash rate drops again by 40 percent from the all-time high, which was established at the end of February. The hash rate decreased from the 136 terahashes per second to 82 terahashes on the other day. The tweet prolonged the drop in hash rate by Digitalik, who is a Bitcoin data scientist and noted that there are 40 mere blocks mined in a 12-hour period, which is about 50 percent fewer blocks than usual. This means that when the network adjustment takes place in about two weeks, it could adjust lower to ensure that the blocks are processed around 10 minutes.

There seems to be fear of collapsing in the ecosystem, and this fear could show that Bitcoin is in the bottoming out phase before starting a bullish reversal. The crypto investor Light said that the miner capitulation narrative convinced him of ‘’ making sure you’re long BTC.’’ DonALT also predicted the decline and wrote:

 “Now that the narrative has switched from “halving is going to be bullish” to “miner capitulation” it’s time to look for longs again.”

Last November, the miner capitulation narrative showed up as well, and Bitcoin dropped by 50 percent from 2019’s highs. Three weeks later, BTC reached $6,400 and started the next bull trend. This indicator shows that Bitcoin could be entering an ultimate price bottom.