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Break-even electricity price in 2015

The electricity price, in cents per kWh, at which each class of bitcoin miner stops covering its power.

13.5 J/TH (S21 XP class) opened 2015 at 1147.0¢ (January 1, 2015) and closed at 643.1¢ (December 31, 2015), down 43.9%. The high was 1147.0¢ on January 1, 2015 and the low 582.1¢ on September 30, 2015.

13.5 J/TH (S21 XP class), month by month in 2015

MonthMonth end
January 2015933.5¢
February 2015804.3¢
March 2015762.4¢
April 2015776.7¢
May 2015767.1¢
June 2015775.6¢
July 2015853.2¢
August 2015619.8¢
September 2015582.1¢
October 2015721.2¢
November 2015706.9¢
December 2015643.1¢

The power price at which a machine’s daily revenue exactly equals its electricity bill: above the line it mines at a loss, below it the difference is margin. Each line is a class of machine by efficiency.

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Also in 2015: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · Network hashrate · Mining difficulty · Difficulty adjustments · Fees paid to miners · Transactions per day · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · What a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market · Hash ribbons

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