Miners' EXIT movements

[analysis_mooorty]

Miners are moving unusually large amounts of BTC(Almost 1,500 BTC) since 2 days ago. Poolin, Slush, F2Pool, HaoBTC, etc. have taken the bitcoins out of the mining wallets for a week and sent some to the exchange.

Data source: https://twitter.com/CryptoQuant_com

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[gentlemand]

Saw this. I don't get it. If you're a miner you could easily get rid of everything OTC. Your 'virgin' coins will be highly sought by people who are turned on by that type of thing and they ain't making all that many these days. Maybe these are all small fry.

[exstasie]

Saw this. I don't get it. If you're a miner you could easily get rid of everything OTC. Your 'virgin' coins will be highly sought by people who are turned on by that type of thing and they ain't making all that many these days. Maybe these are all small fry.

It's probably a move to manipulate and move the markets. Miners dumping is the oldest FUD in the book, and in the age of Whale Alert, the news would be expected to be disseminated and absorbed quickly by the markets. Their dumps also go a lot further (in terms of moving the price) on exchanges than OTC markets.

There has been a lot of talk of "price wars" between Chinese miners and the rest of the world, with Chinese miners preferring lower prices because it gives them an edge over newer Western miners in profitability. The higher the price goes, the more Western miners will continue coming online.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Saw this. I don't get it. If you're a miner you could easily get rid of everything OTC. Your 'virgin' coins will be highly sought by people who are turned on by that type of thing and they ain't making all that many these days. Maybe these are all small fry.

It's probably a move to manipulate and move the markets. Miners dumping is the oldest FUD in the book, and in the age of Whale Alert, the news would be expected to be disseminated and absorbed quickly by the markets. Their dumps also go a lot further (in terms of moving the price) on exchanges than OTC markets.

Right, and that's one negative effect of this so called whale alerts, everything is out in the open and it just magnified how this whales or manipulators play the market, this time, is the miners.

There has been a lot of talk of "price wars" between Chinese miners and the rest of the world, with Chinese miners preferring lower prices because it gives them an edge over newer Western miners in profitability. The higher the price goes, the more Western miners will continue coming online.

Haven't heard of this one, so there's really a competition behind this miners from behind and Chinese miners wanted to remain dominant, specially that there are a lot of news recently about some big companies getting in the mining picture and this is a threat to Chinese miners.

[Oasisman]

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Haven't heard of this one, so there's really a competition behind this miners from behind and Chinese miners wanted to remain dominant, specially that there are a lot of news recently about some big companies getting in the mining picture and this is a threat to Chinese miners.

There's always a competition when the number of miners going online increases. And indeed Chinese miners want Bitcoin not to make a rally yet. So, I guess this selling was made for this purpose. Though miners had different preferences, I guess majority of the miners are encouraged when theres a bull run, and some miners doesn't want a bull run to minimize the competition.
Nevertheless, this is a good opportunity to buy at a lower price for the investors if this mining war continues.

[Spaffin]

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Haven't heard of this one, so there's really a competition behind this miners from behind and Chinese miners wanted to remain dominant, specially that there are a lot of news recently about some big companies getting in the mining picture and this is a threat to Chinese miners.

There's always a competition when the number of miners going online increases. And indeed Chinese miners want Bitcoin not to make a rally yet. So, I guess this selling was made for this purpose. Though miners had different preferences, I guess majority of the miners are encouraged when theres a bull run, and some miners doesn't want a bull run to minimize the competition.
Nevertheless, this is a good opportunity to buy at a lower price for the investors if this mining war continues.

Considering gas prices on the Ethereum network, Ethereum miners earn a lot more than Bitcoin miners. In addition, after the last Bitcoin halving, not only did the remuneration halve, but also the requirements for mining equipment increased, and many Miners had a lot of problems related to the profitability of their activities.

[sheenshane]

That isn't an exit of miners, they are giving us an opportunity to accumulate more Bitcoin during this dump.

I can't imagine that miners are also a manipulator of the price of Bitcoin in the market. By moving this large transaction in the market it seems there is a good purpose. It might be investment again or planning to build other facilities of mining for the equipment.

But as you can see, they aren't only the possible factor of dumping the price. We have seen there is another angle of reason, the stablecoins like USDT are reserve indicates the potential buying pressure that makes price drastically down by the correction. Then, I don't think so this is an exit movement of Bitcoin miners.

[cabron]

The Chinese miners want the price low so the miners from other countries like from US are going to quit when the returns are not enough to pay their energy bills?

That is very strategic of them actually but then so are they, they are also going to lose profit if they sell for low price. That isn't also good for them. The accumulation of many traders is more reasonable.

[exstasie]

There has been a lot of talk of "price wars" between Chinese miners and the rest of the world, with Chinese miners preferring lower prices because it gives them an edge over newer Western miners in profitability. The higher the price goes, the more Western miners will continue coming online.

Haven't heard of this one, so there's really a competition behind this miners from behind and Chinese miners wanted to remain dominant, specially that there are a lot of news recently about some big companies getting in the mining picture and this is a threat to Chinese miners.

Yep, this is one article that touches on it:

Denis Rusinovich, who operates an 80-megawatt mining operation in Kazakhstan, expects that, once many more new generation ASICs come on line, this “will [have a] major impact [on] hashrate redistribution for the next 12 months.” He elaborated that, if the Bitcoin price is high after the halving (around or above $8,000), then inefficient miners will have a reprieve, but if Bitcoin is trending towards $4,000, then he expects we could see “price wars” wherein larger farms come out on top over smaller ones, something that could risk centralizing mining in China further.

Even with Bitcoin at $9,000, it’s likely that this halving will hurt North America “pretty bad in the near-term,” Vera  told Decrypt, “but it will be good in the mid-term.”

https://decrypt.co/27777/bitcoin-halving-could-bring-way-more-mining-back-to-north-america

One of the big issues is scale and capitalization. Retail miners in the West are easily squeezed by price volatility.

The northern US and Canada are well positioned for large scale Bitcoin mining operations due to cheap electricity and very cold, long winters. Miners can sell excess generated heat at scale to reduce costs. By co-locating operations adjacent to power plants and either generating power themselves or load balancing, mining in North America can absolutely compete with China. All that is needed is the proper infrastructural investment, and the proper capitalization and/or mining insurance to ride out price volatility. This will all take years to happen as Bitcoin mining gradually becomes viewed as more than just a super high risk venture, but I'm confident 10-20 years from now the global hash rate distribution will look very, very different.

[logfiles]

It's also likely that the miners saw the current bitcoin price as suitable to offload their bitcoin stash as they prepare for a possible bull or bear market in the near future. Remember it has been months before bitcoin price some high levels. That plus the bitcoin halving where miner's reward was reduced. I am certain most of the miners were affect and would like to enjoy some of their harvest.

I don't think 1,500 BTC (~$15M) is so much that it can shake up the bitcoin price.

[Cryptoababe]

Now Miners are not holding btc  anymore. This will not really affect price of btc as I've think . I expect price or Ethereum to be more affected because miners are earning more than expected amount daily and they will need to sell..

[Kemarit]

Now Miners are not holding btc  anymore. This will not really affect price of btc as I've think . I expect price or Ethereum to be more affected because miners are earning more than expected amount daily and they will need to sell..

Obviously, their move has drastically affected the market in the last couple of days. But going back in history this is not the first time they've done this, I think even prior the the halving, big mining pools has slowly flushing out majority of their bitcoin to buy new gear, and then mid to small miners dumping because they are moving out.

It's not that obvious though, as there are speculators buying because of FOMO of the pre-halving. But today, it seems the picture is very clear, no buyers but pure dumping from big miners. And they have another intentions, to curb out Western miners who just enter the picture after the halving. It is good for Western miners, no, but for investors, golden opportunity again if the price slides into four digits.

[mk4]

It's probably a move to manipulate and move the markets. Miners dumping is the oldest FUD in the book, and in the age of Whale Alert, the news would be expected to be disseminated and absorbed quickly by the markets. Their dumps also go a lot further (in terms of moving the price) on exchanges than OTC markets.

Would it actually make sense for miners to want the prices to drop though? Because if anything, they're going to make more money from mining if bitcoin goes higher, rather than the other way around. Well, unless some of these miners are also actively trying to actually buy cheaper bitcoin.

[so98nn]

Saw this. I don't get it. If you're a miner you could easily get rid of everything OTC. Your 'virgin' coins will be highly sought by people who are turned on by that type of thing and they ain't making all that many these days. Maybe these are all small fry.

Woha, I am pretty sure it's not small fry brother. Such big transfer and that too from different mining vendors can bring up substantial change in the market. Well, just look at the thread replies and fear starts to filling up in the market.

This news on the telecaster booth can cause huge chaos considering it will impact on larger group of investors.

Also, it could be just normal transfer, and why wouldn't they do it if they have earned it.

[exstasie]

It's probably a move to manipulate and move the markets. Miners dumping is the oldest FUD in the book, and in the age of Whale Alert, the news would be expected to be disseminated and absorbed quickly by the markets. Their dumps also go a lot further (in terms of moving the price) on exchanges than OTC markets.

There has been a lot of talk of "price wars" between Chinese miners and the rest of the world, with Chinese miners preferring lower prices because it gives them an edge over newer Western miners in profitability. The higher the price goes, the more Western miners will continue coming online.

Would it actually make sense for miners to want the prices to drop though? Because if anything, they're going to make more money from mining if bitcoin goes higher, rather than the other way around.

Would it actually make sense for miners to send those coins to exchanges otherwise? A miner could easily liquidate OTC (most likely with a price premium) with just a small fraction of those coins. Why dump them onto thin exchange order books if they wanted the price to go up?

[bitgolden]

I believe that miners tired to keep as much coins as possible to keep the profits higher, they really wanted to live without spending all the extra coins they saved, just mine coins right now and sell those if you have to and keep whatever you can save and move on like that.

However with transaction fee's going lower and with halving they are not making any profit at all, some machines do but some machines really started to lose money or make very tiny amounts, which means they were really not doing well. So, what could they do instead? Sell all the coins they saved so far, whatever the cost was they sold it already before and whatever the extra was they kept it but it was until now, they now need to sell to continue operation. Obviously not something they wanted but had to.

[khaled0111]

This explains why bitcoin price suddenly dropped by ~2k $ during the past few days.
I think exstasie's theory is the most reasonable one. If mining in China costs less than other countries then Chinese miners can handle this price drop till they get rid of their competitors.
Not sure how long this war will last but it looks like the market is beginning to recover.

[jossiel]

Sweet amount. Yeah, this might be the reason why we've turned into a sudden correction. I don't see it as an exit though, it's just a normal day for those miners to take profits as they've accumulated since the halving was done and rewards by that time were cut off.

They pretty got a decent price to sell it. IMHO. It's not just all about selling, they probably have to take it in cash to sustain their operation and other expenses maintaining their farms.

[semobo]

I don't think 1,500 BTC (~$15M) is so much that it can shake up the bitcoin price.

But it did, there are investors who are always in a look for dip so they can sell their shares thinking that there will be massive dump, it's like a domino effect, these investors with weak hands are part of the domino that they are going to follow the market every time they sense there is a dip because they are already in profit and just waiting, when will the price dip.

Whole crypto market is in red due to the exit scam of some defi projects which creates a panic and made the people to liquidate their funds into cash because whenever there is a hack or major scam the market will get shaky for a while but after a while when everything getting back into normal the price will get expensive so make use of the current cheap price to get some bitcoins.

[tbterryboy]

Hopefully it will be quick onetime thing and not a long term idea for them. I mean surely they could make a lot more profit if they just keep it and not sell the excess they have. Miners do have a cost when they mine, I understand that and I accept that but that really doesn't mean that they have to sell all the bitcoin they mine, they could only sell the bitcoins they need to sell to cover the cost and that would be enough, whatever is left over after the cost they could keep.

If they do not do that and if they keep on trying to sell every single one, there is really not much that we could do, it would really hurt bitcoin price and there is really a big fall coming back to back, it is going to hurt the crypto economy. Hopefully they will stop and not do that.