When this topic was created, Price per bitcoin was ~$9.6K.
Now after losing over $1600 per coin, does the fact their is not enough liquidity to hold the price start to sink in?
All anyone had to do was add up the coming sales from confiscated bitcoins verses the buy orders on CMK to see that bitcoin price has no where to go but down for the foreseeable future.Miners need bitcoin at $9k to break even, they are all bleeding money now.
Which will be even worse after the halving, when they need the price at $18K to break even.
Doubtful anyone is dumb enough to buy at even $10K,
the world has no greater fools left, if you hodl bitcoin, you dear friend are the last of the greater fools for the next decade or two.
Prepare for a massive number of miner bankruptcies possibility even Bitmain within 6 months.
https://lifesly.com/mining-companies-in-bankruptcy/Many crypto mining companies have stopped operating
Experts estimate that the average cost of mining a bitcoin stands at $ 9,000, including overhead and depreciation costs.
But the digital currency is now trading at $ 8,200, 40% below the price of a year and a half ago. In the opinion of Aron van Ammers, technical director and founding partner of Outlier Ventures, a venture capital fund specializing in cryptocurrencies, “for many miners, the current price of bitcoin is below cost”.
that bitmain also stopped its mining operations in Rockdale, Texas. Apparently, the company also had to lay off most of the employees, with the exception of two engineers and the human relations director.
By the end of 2018, both Bitmain and Huobi had confirmed their plans to fire staff. Some Chinese activists also suggested in the local media that Bitmain has had to dissolve its entire team of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) developers. In addition, Bitmain reported in December that it was closing its development center in Israel and firing local employees.