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Data / What a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market / 2019
The electricity behind one mined bitcoin at our hosting rates against a typical 7.5¢ industrial rate, on the same machine.
Firsthand cost (Nigeria, 3.9¢) opened 2019 at $297 (January 1, 2019) and closed at $664 (December 31, 2019), up 123.4%. The high was $765 on December 21, 2019 and the low $260 on February 12, 2019.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2019 | $303 |
| February 2019 | $306 |
| March 2019 | $297 |
| April 2019 | $342 |
| May 2019 | $293 |
| June 2019 | $428 |
| July 2019 | $453 |
| August 2019 | $568 |
| September 2019 | $658 |
| October 2019 | $621 |
| November 2019 | $605 |
| December 2019 | $664 |
The same machine — a current 13.5 J/TH air miner — mining the same network on the same day, with only the price of electricity changed. The green line is our Nigeria rate of 3.9¢ per kWh, the blue is the 6¢ our UAE and Argentina sites run at, and the red is 7.5¢, which is a normal industrial hosting rate almost anywhere else.
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Also in 2019: 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 · Break-even electricity price