
Hut 8 could see its hash rate rise from 5.6 exahashes per second to 24 EH/s by Q2 2025 should it also execute a 15 EH/s purchase option with Bitmain.
Bitcoin miner Hut 8 forecasts its self-mining hash rate will increase by 66% around the first quarter of 2025 after agreeing to buy 31,145 Bitmain Antminers S21+ machines.
Hut 8 agreed to pay $15 per terahash for the miners, scheduled for delivery in early Q1 2025, the firm revealed in a Nov. 6 statement.
Hut 8 expects its self-mining hashrate to increase from 5.6 exahashes per second to around 9.3 exhashes per second (EH/s) once the machines are installed — marking a 66% increase.
Deficit spending and lower interest rates have boosted global liquidity higher, benefiting Bitcoin and related markets, Blockware’s Mitchell Askew said.
Share prices of Bitcoin miners soared as high as 24.4% on Oct. 28 as Bitcoin rallied over $70,000 — with an analyst pointing to an increasingly favorable macroeconomic climate and miners’ continued diversification into AI.
“Deficit spending and lower interest rates are driving global liquidity higher [while] investors are fearful of high inflation over the long term, as evidenced by poor performance from treasury bonds since the Sept[ember] rate cut,” Mitchell Askew, head analyst at Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm Blockware told Cointelegraph.
As such, investors are turning to the Bitcoin markets where Bitcoin mining stocks are trading at a “beta.”
Mining revenues hit 12-month lows in August, according to Bitbo.
Bitcoin (BTC) miners saw mining revenues dwindle to 12-month lows as the Bitcoin network’s April halving continues to erode mining output and, in turn, revenues, according to data from Bitbo, a Bitcoin dashboard.
Monthly BTC mining revenues declined to approximately $827 million in August 2024, according to Bitbo. That’s lower than any month since September 2023 and far below pre-halving peaks of almost $2 billion in March 2024.
Roughly every four years, a halving event hardcoded into the Bitcoin network cuts the number of BTC mined per block in half. The April halving reduced mining rewards from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC per block.
Analysts from investing banking firm Benchmark initiated coverage on Hut 8, issuing a “buy” rating and setting a $12 target for the firm’s share price.
United States Bitcoin (BTC) miner Hut 8’s plans to expand its self-mining operations and its scope of diversified revenue streams will make it more competitive in a post-halving world, according to investing banking firm Benchmark.
In an April 22 research note viewed by Cointelegraph, Benchmark senior analyst Mark Palmer explained that the “new HUT” — a firm borne out of a merger between the “old HUT” and US Bitcoin Corporation — boasted a “diversified business model” with multiple revenue streams.
Benchmark initiated coverage of Hut 8 stock and set a $12 price target — a near 30% increase from its current share price of $9.22, per TradingView data.