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Break-even electricity price in 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.

13.5 J/TH (S21 XP class), month by month in 2020

MonthMonth end
January 202045.2¢
February 202046.8¢
March 202034.2¢
April 202040.1¢
May 202028.6¢
June 202022.1¢
July 202025.6¢
August 202028.1¢
September 202021.8¢
October 202034.5¢
November 202039.6¢
December 202054.9¢

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

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