As the halving will increase profit in investment for hodlers, it will reduce the reward for mining for miners to half.
If the event increases the profit of holders then the value of the halved mining reward will also increase.
For comparison, miners earn 6.25
BTC which is about $170,000 with the current bitcoin price of $27,000.
The halving will drop the reward down to 3.125
BTC but if there is an increase in the market value of bitcoin to 3× (which is a conservative amount), the value of the mining reward then will be $255,000, which is significantly higher than the current value. The downside is that the bull run does not come with the halving but several months or a year after.
I imagine that every miner is also hodling bitcoins and will still benefit the other way from the halving. Am I wrong? Is there anyone amongst us who is strictly a miner that depends on the rewards from mining as income to sort expenses and is not hodling any?
All miners invariably hold bitcoins since they are competing to win the mining reward. They need to cover operational cost regularly which will be affected by the halving.
How should miners prepare for the halving?
I imagine there will be a temporary drop in hashrates if some rigs close down due to high operational cost and a halved reward. This will balance out after some time if the market enters a bull run.
Although I expect they will be preparing for it and have already started saving from their current gains.
- Jay -