Who thinks that current situation has to do something with mining?

[bayu7adi]

BTC prices must remain above 7k USD, so that miners get a fair fee
Miners also spend a large amount of initial capital to buy a RIG, but since the price of the cryptocurrency is destroyed, only POS can be relied on, now the POW is no longer efficient, unless you have free electricity from a windmill

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitmain-closes-israeli-blockchain-development-center-citing-crypto-market-conditions

[jcpone]

For small miners, mining is no longer profitable due to very low prices of the crytocurrency coins. Imagine the expenses these miners have to pay. The digitals assets that they have mined could be sold only at a very low price. Most probably, as soon as the market goes up again, the number of miners will start to increase again.

[BrewMaster]

i think people are overthinking things about mining these  days only because it was brought up this year and not in the past as much as today. if you look at the charts you can see that the hashrate has been going up and down for as long as bitcoin has been around.
price rises then the hashrate rises with it. then price falls and the hashrate falls after it also. it has been like this with any major rise and fall of price!
there really isn't any more to it than profitability for individual miners.

[ralle14]

BTC prices must remain above 7k USD, so that miners get a fair fee
Miners also spend a large amount of initial capital to buy a RIG, but since the price of the cryptocurrency is destroyed, only POS can be relied on, now the POW is no longer efficient, unless you have free electricity from a windmill

The price doesn't have to stay above $7k for Bitcoin mining to stay profitable. You need to know that not all miners are under the same circumstances they don't spend the same electricity cost and  huge mining farms can easily sustain these losses since they've have been mining for more than a year. PoW is still efficient if someone wants to profit from Bitcoin mining today their electricity cost shouldn't exceed $0.07 per kw/h or else they have to wait before they could sell (other values came from the using the most efficient miner).

[YOSHIE]

For me a lot of things can be done when looking at a market situation like this,for me not to sell, it actually buys when the price of Bitcoin falls like this, this rare phenomenon occurs this year against Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, I am optimistic that Bitcoin one day will surely meet the actual price.

[el kaka22]

As you see guys, price falls and falls, that's very bad we all know and it's not something we want but it keeps falling.
This fall was also sudden and somehow very suprising not only for me but maybe for you too.
Do any of you think that it has something common with mining? As you see a lot of miners just gave up and left bitcoin mining, not only this...
Imagine following: There are giant miners like bitmain, bitfury and so on... What about if they want to create monopoly? Once for example 20% of miners will leave mining, they'll fill this 20% and more by new and improved equipment which they won't release for a while and make it almost nonsense for others to start mining with currently publicly available miners.
P.S Don't call me crazy...

There is a 100% correlation between the miners and this current situation from all kinds of perspective you look at it.
Firstly, we all said the price wouldn't fall anything below 6 thousand dollars because that was the cost of mining at the time.

Miners from bitmain (biggest miners in the world) decided to shift things up and they went to a war with Craig Wright and that cost a lot of money, in this time both sides have spent a lot of money and and that created a need to sell bitcoin which dropped the price a lot. This didn't caused bitmain to lose money though because it worked out for them better, why ? Because when the price went down there was a lot of small miners who stopped mining and that caused the difficulty to drop and made the cost of mining lower which helped them to make more money mining now.

[Renaldi blackspadeteam]

you are a genius and not crazy, because my average friend complains with bitcoin mining because the price of bitcoin goes down so it's true, they sell mining machines at the same price when they buy, it's just a little cheaper ...

[jcarlo]

In my opinion, current market situation because peoples panic with many negative and fake news. I dont think this bear market related with mining because many miners shutdown their rigs because its not too profitable anymore. I am believe its because too many fake news and people panic with that news

[charlotte04]

As you see guys, price falls and falls, that's very bad we all know and it's not something we want but it keeps falling.
This fall was also sudden and somehow very suprising not only for me but maybe for you too.
Do any of you think that it has something common with mining? As you see a lot of miners just gave up and left bitcoin mining, not only this...
Imagine following: There are giant miners like bitmain, bitfury and so on... What about if they want to create monopoly? Once for example 20% of miners will leave mining, they'll fill this 20% and more by new and improved equipment which they won't release for a while and make it almost nonsense for others to start mining with currently publicly available miners.
P.S Don't call me crazy...

Some of them will but also some big people behind a big company will still continue mining until the lost drop of Bitcoin will be in their hands to acquire.

[cizatext]

I don't don't the crash in price has any thing with miners activities due to the fact that even the transaction fees and unconfirmed transactions that was witness in the past let say this time last year 2017 when to send any little amount of bitcoin faces high transactions fees and must time transactions unconfirmed. Those are miners in action that shows how the number of miners available was less then the transaction that goes on in the blockchain network but with the present eas in carrying out transactions it show that the percentage of active miners are more then enough and also new development. The price crash is as a result of low demands of bitcoin in the market.

[hubballi]

For each bear market always their will be some excuses or reasons behind for the fall, and what OP is telling is also one part of true for this fall. As last year everyone was telling about same good stories of market moving up and this year all bad stories are coming for the fall of market. So i think Mining is also one of the reason of this correction of price in bitcoins.

[noormcs5]

BTC prices must remain above 7k USD, so that miners get a fair fee
Miners also spend a large amount of initial capital to buy a RIG, but since the price of the cryptocurrency is destroyed, only POS can be relied on, now the POW is no longer efficient, unless you have free electricity from a windmill

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitmain-closes-israeli-blockchain-development-center-citing-crypto-market-conditions

At current prices, mining is no longer profitable. Only where the electricity is very cheap, one can consider continue mining and keep accumulating the coins. Due to lack of miners, the Btc transactions are taking larger than normal these days.

[1Referee]

At current prices, mining is no longer profitable. Only where the electricity is very cheap, one can consider continue mining and keep accumulating the coins.

How is it not profitable to mine? If you look at the difficulty corrections, they are making sure that it is decently profitable to mine, or that miners have no problem running at a small loss for the time being. Bitcoin's hashrate in the last couple of days went up with 10EH/s, which means that the situation isn't as bad as news outlets are pointing out.

Due to lack of miners, the Btc transactions are taking larger than normal these days.

It's more so that the hashrate volatility is causing block times to slow down. Currently the average block time is 11 minutes while it's supposed to be close to 10 minutes under normal circumastances. It's perfectly acceptable. Last year was bad, the average block time went up all the way to 16 minutes.

[olubams]

I don't see any relationship between what is happening and mining. Mining is an independent activity to me that is not related to forces of demand and supply. I have not seen that because transactions are not confirmed that is why price have fallen neither have I read that because more than enough bitcoins are being mined is what caused glut in the market when we all know that the difficulty in mining bitcoin increase by the day. So, let focus on turning things around rather than looking for who to blame.

[Akpuv]

As you see guys, price falls and falls, that's very bad we all know and it's not something we want but it keeps falling.
This fall was also sudden and somehow very suprising not only for me but maybe for you too.
Do any of you think that it has something common with mining? As you see a lot of miners just gave up and left bitcoin mining, not only this...
Imagine following: There are giant miners like bitmain, bitfury and so on... What about if they want to create monopoly? Once for example 20% of miners will leave mining, they'll fill this 20% and more by new and improved equipment which they won't release for a while and make it almost nonsense for others to start mining with currently publicly available miners.
P.S Don't call me crazy...

I don't in my opinion believe that the reduction in the number of miners is responsible for the current price drops. It is simply as a result of more people offering to sell off, without a balanced buy orders.

[Lumi3004]

In situations like this everyone can think indifferently to Bitcoin, all Bitcoin miners are aware that prices are now dropping, that this is a sign of change for crypto in the whole world, for things to be expensive things are rare or unique, when bitcoin runs out in the mineand people need it, that's where new is expensive and high in price.