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Data / Break-even electricity price / 2020
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 2020 at 44.1¢ (January 1, 2020) and closed at 54.9¢ (December 31, 2020), up 24.6%. The high was 54.9¢ on December 31, 2020 and the low 20.3¢ on October 8, 2020.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2020 | 45.2¢ |
| February 2020 | 46.8¢ |
| March 2020 | 34.2¢ |
| April 2020 | 40.1¢ |
| May 2020 | 28.6¢ |
| June 2020 | 22.1¢ |
| July 2020 | 25.6¢ |
| August 2020 | 28.1¢ |
| September 2020 | 21.8¢ |
| October 2020 | 34.5¢ |
| November 2020 | 39.6¢ |
| December 2020 | 54.9¢ |
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 2020: 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