Miner Balances, Institutional Mining and Retail Financing

Published: Tue, 10/26/21

October 26, 2021
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Market Overview

Data as of 13:30 UTC

Here's a breakdown of institutional investments in public bitcoin mining companies.

"The institutions are coming" has been a longstanding mantra repeated by cryptocurrency investors through previous market cycles. But this time the institutions are actually here, and many of them are investing in mining companies.

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Bitcoin miner balances hold fairly steady as BTC hits all-time highs.

Bitcoin’s price is setting new all-time highs, and bitcoin miners are hodling (for the most part). Current bitcoin miner balances:

  • 0-hop addresses: 1,798,003 BTC
  • 1-hop addresses: 2,655,983 BTC

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The world’s largest public mining companies are planning to quadruple their hashrate.

Marathon Digital Holdings and Riot Blockchain, the world’s two largest public mining companies, are planning to aggressively expand their mining capabilities by several multiples.

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Retail bitcoin miners can use these services to finance their operations.

Although bitcoin mining has a great return on investment (ROI) with an average break even point of 9-12 months, the upfront hardware and setup costs can discourage would-be miners from making this investment.

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