Crypto Diggers Face Margin Calls, Biking as Debt Comes Due in Bear Market

Private and publicly listed crypto miners owe up to $4 billion in debt used to finance the construction of enormous facilities across North America.

Margin calls are coming for cryptocurrency miners as the bear market continues to assert victims.

The private and publicly listed crypto miners have racked up tally anywhere between $2 billion to $4 billion to finance the construction of their enormous facilities across North America.

As the value of the miners’ output perilously falls along with the price of bitcoin (BTC), they have to make tough conclusions about how to survive – including selling off hard-earned coins and apparatus.

Blockfusion is far from alone in this difficulty. With the bitcoin price at its lowest levels since 2020, global clarification power on the network, or hashrate, near all-time highs and energy prices climbing, miners’ profit margins are shrinking.

Older machine models are becoming abortive and turned off – the hashrate decreased by 11% between June 12 and June 27.

Bitcoin mining income in dollar-denominated terms per kilowatt hour (kWh) has more than halved since the start of the year, data assemble by Upstream Data President Steve Barbour shows. Using newer-generation machines such as the Antminer S19 Pros and Whatsminer M30S+ can make a big distinction because they bring in double the income of older models like the Atminer S9, according to Barbour’s data.

The diggers that use the latest machines and have low electricity prices – less than 6 cents per kilowatt hour, keeping their overall cost of mining a bitcoin below $10,000 – can still make ends meet and attain their credit obligations, said Brian Wright, Galaxy Digital’s vice president of mining.