Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Halts BTC Sales, Remain Bullish on Price Ahead of Halving
Bitcoin (BTC) miner Hut 8 produced 111 BTC in September without any sales to fund its operations as it prepares for the next halving.
The firm released its mining and production update for September with its capacity, growth, added investment, and partnerships.
Per the release, the miner holds 9,366 in Bitcoin becoming one of few publicly traded companies with huge asset reserves despite plunging prices.
With 111 BTC generated last month, it notched a capacity of 2.6EH/s at its Alberta facility pushing daily production to 3.7 BTC a day and 42.7 BTC/EH in September.
Normally, digital asset miners sell a portion of their total production to fund their operations as part of their generated revenue.
The sales increase in a bear market with declining asset prices, bottleneck regulation, increased production costs, and other factors that make firms think outside the box to stay afloat.
In recent times, many miners have sold their mining reserves and hardware however Hut 8 remains bullish on the market with no asset sales to fund its ever-increasing production.
Erin Dermer, the Senior Vice President of Communications explained that the company is quite fortunate not to sell any Bitcoin with the recent developments in the market.
The company’s revenue is lower than last year's figures as the firm continues to cite an increase in network difficulty in previous months.
Hut 8 posted revenues totaling 19.8 million in Q2 2023 less than 50% from its $43 million revenue last year. It is worth noting that Q2 2022 revenues were not affected by the crash of FTX that sent prices lower.
Many miners now look towards high-performance computing, a niche now popularized by the increasing number of Artificial Intelligence (AI) firms. The company is also
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