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Break-even electricity price in 2021

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 2021 at 55.5¢ (January 1, 2021) and closed at 79.6¢ (December 31, 2021), up 43.5%. The high was 123.6¢ on October 22, 2021 and the low 55.5¢ on January 1, 2021.

13.5 J/TH (S21 XP class), month by month in 2021

MonthMonth end
January 202164.1¢
February 202193.0¢
March 202197.3¢
April 202199.8¢
May 202172.8¢
June 2021102.2¢
July 2021100.5¢
August 2021116.9¢
September 202188.4¢
October 2021119.7¢
November 202198.4¢
December 202179.6¢

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.

Other years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2021: 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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