Bitcoin Miner Optimism Back: Hashrate Up 8% From Crash Lows

On-chain data shows the Bitcoin Hashrate has made some notable recovery recently, a sign that optimism may be returning among the miners.

Bitcoin Hashrate Has Been Recovering From The Crash

The “Hashrate” is a metric that keeps track of the total amount of computing power that the miners as a whole have connected to the Bitcoin network. Its value is measured in terms of hashes per second (H/s), or the larger and more practical terahashes per second (TH/s).

This indicator is useful for discerning the sentiment that’s present among the chain validators. When its value goes up, it means miners are finding BTC mining attractive, so they are expanding their facilities. On the other hand, it observing a decline implies some of the miners have decided to disconnect from the network, potentially because they can’t break even anymore.

Now, here is a chart from Blockchain.com that shows the trend in the 7-day average value of the Hashrate over the past year:

Looks like the value of the metric has been sharply going up in recent days | Source: Blockchain.com

As displayed in the above graph, the Bitcoin Hashrate witnessed a huge crash near the end of February that took its value from around 835,900 TH/s to 744,500 TH/s. The mass exit from the miners may have been a result of the bearish price action that the cryptocurrency was going through then.

Miners earn the major part of their revenue through the block subsidy, a fixed BTC reward that they receive for solving blocks on the network. The rate at which they obtain this compensation is nearly constant, so the only way the miners’ revenue as a whole can change is when the price of the asset itself fluctuates.

As such, the movements in the Hashrate can often follow the cryptocurrency’s price. This may have been what was happening during the crash in the metric earlier.

After the Hashrate reached its bottom, it turned around and started moving up in a sharp manner. Interestingly, this low point came ahead of the one in the Bitcoin price and the volatility that the asset has been going through since then hasn’t been able to halt the indicator’s growth, either.

Whenever the metric deviates from the BTC spot value, it can be an indication of where the miners think the coin would head next. Considering that the metric is continuing to rise despite BTC being up and down recently, it would seem this cohort is bullish about the asset at the moment.

It only remains to be seen, though, whether this advance bet from the Bitcoin miners would work out, or if they will be forced to cut back on their machines.

BTC Price

At the time of writing, Bitcoin is floating around $88,500, up more than 4% over the last seven days.

The price of the coin seems to have overall been moving sideways recently | Source: BTCUSDT on TradingView

Featured image from Dall-E, Blockchain.com, chart from TradingView.com