I have included some stats I gathered while preparing for my most recent podcast episode. My main take away was the price you are paying for 1000ph/s in bitcoin mining capabilities.
HUT8 is the clear Canadian winner at $0.56B USD
BTBT is the clear American winner at $0.55B USD
I know what people pumping MARA are going to say "They are investing to have the most mining capacity of any of these companies"
Sure that's fine... but as we sit now they are no where close and people are already pricing in their full mining capacity. In my opnion it is way more risk than you need to take, when you can invest in already established operations who are currently mining.
In addition to that HUT is holding the most BTC of any of them at 3007. They have been usingdebt to finance their growth rather than selling their BTC, and with the price appreciation in BTC this has proved to be a great move. They have recently cleared off $20M in debt as well.
Weird to me others would finance by selling BTC... by becoming a mining company you would think you believe in the long term success of bitcoin? Logically, if this were the case you would prefer debt financing as you wouldn't want to be giving up BTC at cheap prices when you believe in the technology.
Anyways, I like HUT.TO and BTBT
episoide link is here if anyone is interested in the podcast
https://anchor.fm/10-minute-investing/episodes/012---Bitcoin-Miners---HUT--HIVE--BTBT--RIOT--MARA-eq4vhh
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Bitcoin Miners are leveraged to the price of BTC, in the same way that gold miners are leveraged to the price of gold.
I refer to a lot of numbers across these 5 companies in this episode, so I have included the numbers below to help listeners with a visual aid. All amounts are depicted in USD
RIOT: Market Cap: $2.21B ; 40.25% gain today ; 842 ph/s mining power ; 820 BTCs inventory ; $2.62B price per 1000 ph/s mining power
MARA: Market Cap: $3.01B ; 42.41% gain today ; 296 ph/s mining power ; 0 BTCs inventory ; $10.14B price per 1000 ph/s mining power
BTBT: Market Cap: $1.23B ; 46.2% gain today ; 2245 ph/s mining power ; 122 BTCs inventory ; $0.55B price per 1000 ph/s mining power
HIVE: Market Cap: $0.808B ; 7.16% gain today ; 326 ph/s mining power ; 140 BTCs inventory ; $2.48B price per 1000 ph/s mining power
HUT: Market Cap: $0.577B ; 22.22% gain today ; 1031 ph/s mining power ; 3007 BTCs inventory ; $0.56B price per 1000 ph/s mining power