A harsh rate has a considerable effect on the price
the HASH rate has a considerable effect on the base value/cost.
there is a difference.
think of it like cost to farm cattle. this cost affects how much a farmer is willing to sell cows for. yes if the price is too high, meat suppliers get cows from different sources or meat from already slaughtered suppliers.
farmers wont sell for a loss so if the whole cow farm industry costs go up then yes it then bounces to affect the slaughter costs of providing butchered meat to the meat market and then affecting the meat market price.
but if we take the bitcoin price of $43-67k between october and december.
the base value/cost of the mining industry was at about $30k $39k for same period
basically if there ever was a mega dump in price. the amount of support and resistance not to sell would really push to not want to go below the base value. because no one wants to sell at a loss. and if the price went down to prices cheaper then the cheapest place on the planet to mine. everyone would prefer to buy, rather than mine to sell.
this base value is not the cost of all miners on the planet. it is however the base cost of the most efficient miners getting hardware at the cheapest wholesale cost and the cheapest electric available.
other countries and less 'partnered up' farms have higher costs and they provide support lines at other amounts above base, which as explained help the market price not reach the base value because higher cost miners would switch from mining to buying if the price dropped below their costs
EG
in october when market price was $67k, base value was $29k in places like iceland and regions of russia, .. yet different countries have different cost value bases. each adding to different support lines of where they will prefer to buy at above base
japan and denmark are currently in a buying spree mindset(costs above $60k). america/europe had a buying spree at ~$43k-$45k
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japan and denmark see no need to mine. as its cheaper to buy nearly always.
europe/america play the game of jumping in and out of mining or buying depending on volatility. and places like iceland and russia/china will always mine because they have the lowest base cost to protect them from the whims of the market price
pooya envisions all miners are 100% hobby miners working from home reacting to the whims of the market price to determine their mining/buying choices. yet actual FARMS do not really switch off. they just choose when to sell coins when in profit. or if market price is equal to cost. they will buy more while they mine to hoard for later.
the hashrates 'volatility' is not 100% reactive to market prices. its actually more so below 30% reactive..
what you actually find when researching more into the mining/market paradigm is that the mining and coin acquisition costs put more then 70% pressure ON THE market price. to keep the price above certain levels when there are dips
however.. with all that said. the mining side does not affect the ATH or any of the reasons for new rises unpredicted quick rises that are not supported long term.
most of the highs are just emotional hype/speculation of drama and human decision.
in short.
mining affects where the bottom will flatten out to..
speculative emotion will affect where the volatile ATH top up to temporarily.
mining helps support new raised bottoms over time to give good supported long term prices
EG if it only cost from $20 to mine instead of over $20k.. the price would be more like $50 instead of $50k.
another short for you.
if all mining on the planet increased to where the cost of even the cheapest place on the planet to mine became $100k. the market price would be way over $100k and would, if there was a dip plateau at or above $100k.
base value of last 3 months has been over $30k-$39k and the price has never dipped below that