THELOGICALINDIAN - On May 11 the Bitcoin arrangement accomplished its third block accolade halving which had chopped the 125 BTC accolade to 625 bill afterward the accident Its been abutting to a anniversary after and abstracts stemming from mining rig advantage websites appearance that added than 45 earlier bearing accessories are not assisting appropriate now at todays bitcoin barter rates
After May 11, Many Older-Generation Bitcoin Mining Rigs Bit the Dust
Recent assay analysis by 8btc columnist Vincent He and the cryptocurrency mining operation F2pool, indicates that almost 45 earlier mining accessories accept been shut bottomward brief back the accolade halving. Statistics from the web aperture Asicminervalue.com, additionally announce that the appraisal of 45 miners is based on the electrical amount of 0.35 Chinese yuan per kilowatt-hour (kWh) or $0.049 USD.
The best mining accessory out of the absolute bulk of ‘unprofitable’ mining rigs would be Bitmain’s Antminer S11 (20.5 TH/s), which still loses $0.09 per day at $0.049 per kWh. Other machines that are not authoritative profits at this rate, accommodate the Bitfury Tardis, Antminer S9 SE, GMO Miner B2, Innosilicon T2 Turbo, Bitfily Snow Panther B1, Canaan Avalonminer 921, and the accepted Antminer S9. Data shows that at $0.049 per kWh, Bitfury’s B8 appear in 2024 with 49 TH/s, suffers a abysmal accident of added than $3 a day.
According to Vincent He, “with the electric allegation of 0.3 Chinese yuan per kWh, the electric allegation of an S9 can annual for 140% of the accomplished cost.” The Chinese mining operation F2pool states:
After the Popular Mining Rig Once Powered 70% of the Bitcoin Hashrate, Antminer S9 Series Becomes a Hard Sell
Two canicule ago, the crypto association assuredly could beam the accident of SHA256 hashrate that followed the accolade halving on May 11. On May 11, the all-embracing BTC hashrate was 121 exahash per additional (EH/s) and on May 15, 2020, the all-embracing hashrate is about 110 EH/s. However, statistics from Fork.lol’s 12-hour intervals appearance the hashpower could be alike lower than that today. These statistics would announce that a cardinal of operations that advantage older-generation mining rigs, acceptable fell off the map.
Now anybody knows that in places like China, Central Asia, and Iran, some miners can get chargeless electricity or pay as little as $0.02 per kWh. So demography metrics from Asicminervalue.com and alteration the electrical amount to $0.02 per kWh, indicates that alone eight mining rigs are barren at that activity rate. Mining rigs that cannot accumulation at 2 cents per kWh accommodate the Whatsminer M3X, Avalonminer 741, Whatsminer M3, Antminer S7-LN, Antminer S3, Antminer V9, Antminer S7, and the Antminer S5. These eight machines are accident anywhere amid $0.09 to $0.19 per day appropriately at accepted BTC barter rates.
Vincent He’s address additionally addendum that the able-bodied accepted Antminer S9 had additionally alone in amount on accessory markets about overnight. The Chinese anchorman claims that $100 has been removed from best people’s listings and an earlier bearing Antminer S9 will advertise for 100 Chinese yuan (about $14). Years ago, the S9s with 13 TH/s or aloft accounted for added than 70% of the SHA256 hashrate. The address additionally highlights that a mining operation client from the Sichuan arena awash his baby acreage with 8,000 mining rigs and six transformers almost seven canicule above-mentioned to the halving event. The 8,000 mining rig acreage owner, Zhou Wenbo, told the columnist that the client was not accommodating to booty his earlier bearing Antminer S9s, Avalonminers, and Innosilicon Terminator 2 machines.
If the abstracts is afflicted aback to $0.05 per kWh again, there’s a abundant cardinal of next-generation miners that are still actual assisting at today’s barter rates. This includes the Antminer S19 Pro (110 TH/s), Antminer S19 (95 TH/s), Whatsminer M30S (86 TH/s), Antminer S17 (73 TH/s), and the Whatsminer M31S (70 TH/s). All of these mining accessories accomplish amid $6-15 per day at $0.05 per kWh.
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