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• The estimated average cost of mining 1 BTC is currently $81,839, with a market price of $70,000.
• The loss per mined BTC is approximately $12,000.
• The cost is calculated based on the network hashrate, mining difficulty, average equipment energy efficiency, and electricity costs.
What this means:
• Miners with high costs (old equipment, expensive electricity) are forced to sell mined coins below cost or shut down their equipment.
• This creates additional pressure on the price as miners sell BTC to cover operating expenses.
• Historically, such periods have coincided with miner capitulation and the formation of a cycle bottom.
Important disclaimer: $81,839 is an estimated average. Large miners with cheap electricity and modern equipment operate at significantly lower production costs.
Tuesday, February 17: 🔓 Unlocks: Aster (#ASTER) - 0.98% ($56.43 million) 🔁 #XTER Xterio's transition to BNB Chain 🙋♂️ #JUP Jupiter vote on ending token emissions for the team this year, as well as the postponement of Jupuary 🍿 #BNB BNB will make an announcement 🍿 #ENSO Enso will make an announcement 👍 #PRE Presearch will open trading within Node #NFT auction 🇺🇸 #ETH ETHDenver 2026 begins
Wednesday, February 18: 🔁 #HBAR Hedera to release mainnet upgrade 🔁 #RPL Rocket Pool to release Saturn upgrade
👨💻Santiment: A reversal in the meme token segment may happen sooner than traders expect.
🇧🇹Arkham Intelligence: The Bhutanese government has been selling Bitcoin for the third week in a row.
🇧🇷Brazil, one of the world's largest economies, will consider a bill to hold Bitcoin as a strategic reserve currency.
🥷TRM Labs: Darknet platforms are switching en masse to the anonymous cryptocurrency Monero.
📈Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at the American crypto asset manager Bitwise, stated that the crypto market is gradually laying the foundation for an exit from the bearish trend.
📑Donald Trump's company, Truth Social, has filed to create an ETF that will include BTC, ETH, and Cronos (CRO).
👥Tomasz Stanczak has decided to step down as co-CEO of the Ethereum Foundation.
💸Tether is investing in the Dreamcash platform, which is launching peer-to-peer markets for trading Tesla shares, gold, and other assets.
📑Grayscale has filed to create a spot ETF for AAVE.
🏴☠️ #ETH The hacker who previously stole $200 million from Mixin has started selling coins after two years of inactivity (selling 2,000 ETH). The hacker still owns 57,849 ETH ($113.4 million) and 891 BTC ($59.7 million).
✏️ According to Binance Research, markets remain in a sustained de-risking phase driven by macroeconomic factors, Fed policy uncertainty, and capital redistribution due to #AI developments, leading to #BTC falling ~52% from its October 2025 ATH. AUM for #BTC #ETFs remains generally resilient, stablecoin supply remains near all-time highs, and risk-weighted assets continue to attract capital, remaining a cycle-neutral theme.
CHAINLINK RESERVE ANNOUNCES ACCUMULATION OF $135,693.16
The Chainlink Reserve is a strategic reserve for LINK, funded by revenue from various off-chain and on-chain sources.
Today's accumulation brings the total value of the reserve to $17 million, the current total value of the $LINK reserve to $2.04 million, and the average price of LINK at the time of purchase to $15.25 per coin.
📈 #RWA The total market capitalization of tokenized gold has exceeded $6 billion, increasing by over $2 billion since the beginning of this year. Tether Gold (#XAUT) and Paxos Gold (#PAXG) together account for approximately 96.7% of the market share.
📌 Cryptologists in X have noticed a pattern: every major conviction of a crypto CEO coincides with a local BTC bottom.
• 2018: Arrest of Alexander Vinnik (BTC-e) – the exchange processed $9 billion in transactions and was used for money laundering.
• 2022-2023: Sentences of Do Kwon (Terra) and Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX) – the crypto market bottomed at $15.5k, after which it began to rise to new ATHs.
• 2024: CZ (Binance) received a 4-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to AML violations. Pardoned by Trump in October 2025.
A fresh candidate for the role of "bottom indicator":
• February 10, 2026, SafeMoon CEO Braden Caroni was sentenced to 100 months (8+ years) in prison.
• Stealed $9+ million from investors through access to a liquidity pool. Spent on mansions, an Audi R8, and custom pickup trucks.
• At its peak, SafeMoon had a market cap of $8 billion and millions of holders.
Coincidence or not, Caroni's sentence came at a time when BTC is trading around $70,000 after falling from $126,000.
👨💻Analyst: Miners withdrew almost 49,000 BTC in 2 days
🇺🇸US banking conglomerate opposed approval of new licenses for crypto banks
📈LiT price rose 10% after Lighter and Circle's $920 million deal
📊BNB Chain increased its tokenized assets to $2 billion in a quarter
🤖Lightning Network added tools for AI agents
😱Standard Chartered analysts said they expect Bitcoin to fall to $50,000 and Ethereum to $1,400.
🇬🇧The UK Treasury announced the issuance of digital government bonds (digital gilts) on the Orion blockchain, owned by HSBC, Europe's largest bank by assets.
💰The combined market capitalization of all altcoins, including Ethereum (ETH), has fallen below Tesla CEO Elon Musk's net worth.
🚀Analyst: Ethereum has several prerequisites for a rise to $3,000
💳Expert: The battle between crypto card providers Bridge and Rain is accelerating market development