The whole market cap of the fourteen U.S-listed bitcoin BTC$111,480.33 miners that JPMorgan tracks exceeded $50 billion for the primary time final month, the Wall Avenue financial institution mentioned in a report Wednesday.
The mixed market cap of those mining shares rose 43% month-on-month to $56 billion in September, the financial institution famous.
The transfer was pushed by plenty of bulletins, together with Cipher Mining’s (CIFR) HPC colocation take care of Fluidstack, and IREN’s (IREN) enlargement of its Cloud Providers enterprise, the report mentioned.
The BItcoin hashrate additionally rose. The month-to-month common community hashrate “elevated ~82 EH/s (+9%) m/m to a median of 1,031 EH/s in September,” analysts Reginald Smith and Charles Pearce wrote.
The hashrate refers back to the whole mixed computational energy used to mine and course of transactions on a proof-of-work blockchain.
Mining profitability fell for the second month in a row because the hashrate exceeded 1000 EH/s. The financial institution’s analysts estimated that miners “earned a median of $49,700 per EH/s in day by day block reward income in September, down 10% from August.” Each day block reward gross revenue additionally slumped 17% from the month prior.
Bitfarms (BITF) outperformed the group with a 110% acquire, whereas Cango (CANG) underperformed with an 11% decline.
Twelve of the fourteen miners within the financial institution’s protection outerformed bitcoin in September, the report added.
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