I believe many miners have been doing that already for months, which is why their was a $6000 floor for months.
Now those miners have lost their reserves and are declaring bankruptcy or just closing down.
I don't believe we really have a price floor at the moment.
Next support price is $1500 and that may not even hold.
No Miners , No BTC
51% attack becomes a greater possibility by a disenchanted player with every difficulty drop.
The pretense that miners have unlimited funds to buy btc at these still overinflated prices is nothing but pretense.
they are not going bankrupt. they are preparing for the late december batch delivery of next gen asics.
they just dont want to shoot themselves in the foot too early by pushing up hash/difficulty too soon. as it would just leave them limping for a year.
instead they are very well calculated. they have planned out the next 12 months already.
its only small hobbyiests that are crying
hashrate hit 32exa
using my calculations of mining costs. which are between a 104-117 multiple of exa(to make it easy calculation)
3328-3744 respectively shows mining is still majority profitable
as those with higher costs would have already been receiving income for a bit to have less to pay out
EG
if you bought an asic 6 months ago you have already received enough income after electric costs to cover hardware. so all thats left now is electric
i did not alter the 117 down to account for now just electric cost mining as i prefer to leave things as the cheapest cost and most expensive costs to have the range. but doing math on the ones which are older batches. they are doing better (cheaper) mining than 3744 costs because now they are only paying electric.
in short there are not many at the 3744 worse case costs but alot at the bottom end(profitable)
so those that have been mining for 6 months+ can use that hardware allotment they have paid off by now to buy the next batch.. and so they are just waiting for delivery. while not wanting to put too much pressure on the hashrate right now to shoot self in foot before delivery.
what you dont realise is that those smart miners are OTC contract trading a year in advance. when its not profitable to mine to get btc because the price is low.. it means the price is low so cheaper to buy it.
they get steady contracted in OTC funds to effectively manage the cheapest way to accumulate coin for the otc partner so that the otc partner doesnt need to do the hard work of physically buying equipment or flipping to buying from markets. they just sit back and receive the best rate coin OTC for their fiat