Block reward miners it “swung” from mining BTC Earning as an artificial intelligence (AI) discovers the data center that they have simply jumped from the frying pan in the fire.
Shares in prominent BTC miners took a tumbling on March 26 after reports that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) canceled the rental center’s lease throughout the United States and Europe. The cancellations were reported by a decision not to support incremental training work loads at OuenaThe Sam Altman -led outfit where Microsoft has a 49% share.
Earlier this month, Microsoft reduced their commitments with ‘AI Hyperscaler’ CoreWeave After the latter, reportedly failed to meet certain timelines for delivery on their promises. CoreWeave has a multi -billion dollar dollar center with miners Basic scientific (Nasdaq: Corz), and Microsoft’s US/EU drawback apparently contributed to Wednesday’s 11% case in Kärn Scientific’s share price.
Other miners who have Made the AIpivot suffered approximately similar reductions, including Hive Digital (TSXV: BEEHIVE, The hut 8 (Nasdaq: Hut, Irisenergy (Nandaq: Iren) and more.
Some analysts, however, suggested that Microsoft News was “priced in”, and thus the declines were more indicative of BTC’s inability to recover the Fiat Price Deales it enjoyed in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s election as US president for a second time.
From Thursday afternoon full Cost, including the general need to replace the elderly, non -competing mining rigs with newer, more powerful –stood at $ 85,200About $ 2,000 below the current value of a BTC token. The mining network difficulty is just slightly below its record high, although network hate also ticks up.
The BTC Mempool for Backlogged transactions waiting for confirmation was approaching 50,000 earlier this week, which drove the cost of an individual transaction back over $ 2.00. BTC Artificial bandwidth And its only function as a speculative instrument average fee revenue continues to account for low -digit percentage of mining revenue.
Burning revenue
The gloomy mining economy was on full display in some miners’ Q4FY 2024 Revenue Reports. A trio of new reports offer additional insights on how miners are going.
Canaan Inc. (Nasdaq: Can) reported revenue of $ 88.8 million in the last three months in 2024, compared with only $ 49.1 million during the same period the year before. The majority of these revenues were due to Canaan’s Mining Rig Hardware Business, but direct mining revenue was $ 15.3 million, more than tripling their mining revenue during Q423.
However, Q4’s mining operation costs Was $ 14.9 million and left a profit margin of just $ 400,000. For the year as a whole, mining revenue was $ 44 million, while mining costs amounted to $ 51.6 million. In total, Canaan posted a serious loss of $ 6.4 million in the fourth quarter and a loss of $ 84.3 million for the entire year.
Bitfarm (Nasdaq: Bitf) generated revenue of $ 56.2 million in the fourth quarter, an improvement of 21% from year to year. But income costs increased by $ 23% to $ 54.8 million and operating costs increased by 35%, resulting in an operating loss of $ 16.4 million. Fortunately, an income tax for income tax of $ 9.7 million allowed to post a net profit of almost $ 5.4 million.
The Bitter-connected Bitfufu (Nasdaq: Fufu) managed much better and published the FY24 revenue of $ 463.3 million, almost two-thirds higher than 2023’s results. The net profit enjoyed an even greater profit and increased 414% from 2023 to $ 54 million last year, although it is worth noting that the company padded this statistics through the sale of $ 31.3 million of its BTC tokens last year.
The majority ($ 271 million, +52.2%) of Bitfufus mining revenue comes from its cloud mining solutions, which now have almost 592,000 registered users, while self -breaking revenue increased by 57.2% to $ 157.5 million.
Pakistan rolls out welcome mat
Miners’ success or failure seems increasingly bound to their ability to gain access to dirt-cheap energy. President Trump promised last year that Make America to the global BTC Mining Capital Largely through unloading environmental restrictions and shooting New coal combustion plants. But ‘Murica is not the only country that wants to attract miners with promises of cheap energy.
On March 22, Pakistani media outlet Dawn reported that the government murmured “Special Electric Entry to attract crypto mining and blockchain-based data centers.” The state is reportedly consulting “stakeholders” to provide cheap power to “growth industries” without the need for further subsidies.
Pakistan generates much more electrical power than it consumes, partly because of its sluggish economy and the price that the tool needs to charge to break evenly. Nearly half of its electricity comes from “zero -school sources” sources, with nuclear power and Hydro, which accounts for the two largest discs in this pie.
Bilal bin Saqib, CEO of the recently established Pakistan Crypto Council (PCC), is reportedly anxious to “turn the country’s debts into assets.” But a lot of work lies in the future, including creating overall digital asset rules that not only include mining but all aspects of blockchain technology.
Africa rings
The miners’ global search for cheap energy has taken them to some fairly distant areas. The BBC Recently profiled Gridless, a miner who operates in the northwest corner of Zambia, 14 hours from the nearest major city, which feeds by a local hydropower plant operated by the Zambezi River.
Gridless co -founder Philip Walton told Beeb that his company “acknowledged that in order to get better mining economy we needed to collaborate with the power company here and give them a revenue share.” The Zengamina plant is so remote that it is not connected to the national network – its entire production goes to the local population, which could never use all the power that the plant can produce.
Gridless now accounts for 30% of the facility’s revenue, but this party will end. The power plant has reached an expansion agreement that includes connection to the main network, to which it will channel its excess energy and effectively cut gridless out of the loop.
Walton claims to be non -plussed and points out that Gridless has six such operations in three African countries. Gridless has a long -term goal to raise “tens of millions of dollars” to build their own hydropower plants in the region, although there is no timeline for when this mining utopia can be achieved.
In Russia, BTC is mining you
Miners who soak excess electricity are one thing, but since many jurisdictions have recently realized, mining havoc on local grids can. Russia’s efforts to eradicate mining operations in under -value rural – at least During the winter months When consumer demand is highest – has reportedly reduced Sibiria’s energy consumption by 300 MW Since January.
But necessity is the mother to the invention, according to a report on March 24 from state -owned news agency Fit. The Ministry for Domestic issues has issued a warning to the Russians with “smart home systems” to be in search of excess energy consumption because hackers who compromise internet -connected devices to powerful mining operations.
Internet of Things (IoT) units such as “smart” thermostats, toothbrushes, routers and security cameras with Dodgy password protection can be compromised and connected Bot Net to either my crypto or implement Distributed denial of service (Ddos) attacks.
The Ministry urged consumers to restore the standard passwords that were pre -installed on their devices and regularly check that the units run the latest versions of their operating software.
America: F*ck, yes!
Miners may receive love from Trump, but that does not mean that they are not aware that the public, with even a passing understanding of blockchain technology, understands that BTC uses a ridiculous amount of energy to achieve something that benefits a small part of society. And if that energy comes from burning fossil fuels, the industry’s image problems will be even worse.
The Singapore-based Bitdeer (Nasdaq: BTDR) recently introduced two new mining rigsan air -cooled and a hydro cooled. But a new alternative for Murica is now on the table, thanks to Auradine, Inc.’s new Teraflux AH3880, “The first US-designed hydro-cooled Bitcoin miner” that the company claims can go toe-to-to-toe with the Chinese rigs that dominate the mining sector.
Auradine may have a bright future if Trump’s obsession with import duties continues on its current path. Bitmain -rigs were held for months of the US customs and border protection (CBP) under Biden’s administration of Dying Days for still unclear reasons, but is now reportedly delivered to its US mining customers.
Auradine has financial support from Mara (Nasdaq: Mara), which has a place on Auradine’s board. Mara’s CEO Fred Thiel has Trump’s ear, thanks to significant campaign contributions and fawning tributes that Penetrating pictures of Donald’s face on BTC blockchain. Thiel must whisper something about godless Chinese Communists who take US Bitcoin, and Auradine should sit beautifully.
So there you have it. BTC’s future rely on Hopium, primitive nationalism and the endless pursuit of major fools to take these tool -free digital casino chips from their hands at a greater price than they were bought. Abandon all hope, you like mine here.
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