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Break-even electricity price in 2017

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 2017 at 226.9¢ (January 1, 2017) and closed at 570.6¢ (December 31, 2017), up 151.5%. The high was 767.6¢ on December 21, 2017 and the low 144.8¢ on April 1, 2017.

13.5 J/TH (S21 XP class), month by month in 2017

MonthMonth end
January 2017168.9¢
February 2017188.2¢
March 2017145.2¢
April 2017193.0¢
May 2017288.4¢
June 2017283.6¢
July 2017239.9¢
August 2017442.0¢
September 2017303.4¢
October 2017474.4¢
November 2017474.2¢
December 2017570.6¢

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 2017: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · 200-day and 200-week averages · 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

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