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Bitcoin has an energy cost floor. Miner pressure is beginning to show.
The real-world energy economy (WAHA power):
Operational costs (Operating expenses): 5.9 cents per kWh → Break-even point at around $66,000 per Bitcoin.
Total cost (Operation + Capital + Downtime + Taxes): 8.6 cents per kWh → Break-even point at around $96,000 per Bitcoin.
Current Bitcoin price: approximately $91,000.
- Reality: Miners are currently generating positive cash flow to cover operating costs, but they are losing in the long run (when all costs are considered).
Look at the Bitcoin hash rate (Hashrate): It has stopped accelerating and rising. Why? Because the current price is below the growth floor of $96,000.
Result: New investments have completely halted.
- Clearing phase:
- The most efficient miners can withstand prices down to $66,000.
- Weaker devices (cost more than $90,000 per Bitcoin) are currently operating at a loss.
These miners are not planning to exit immediately; they are bleeding until they are forced to shut down.
- Result:
The exit of weaker miners does not mean the price has peaked; it is a healing phase for the network.
Bitcoin can temporarily trade below its energy floor,
but it cannot stay there for long.
- Deeper law: Why does this floor rise over time?
The market sets the Bitcoin price at the margin (new trades),
but the floor reflects the total work and energy accumulated.
Price (floor) ≈ energy spent per issued Bitcoin.
Over time:
- More energy is permanently locked inside the (blockchain) record.
- Fewer new coins are issued to absorb that energy.
So, energy per coin must increase — these are just mathematical calculations.
Again:
Bitcoin can temporarily trade below its energy floor,
but it cannot sustain itself there for long.
- Conclusion: This is a buy signal.
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