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CryptoQuant posted on platform X that Bitcoin miners have recently stopped large-scale selling. Since Bitcoin hit a low of $76,000 on August 21, the miner status has shifted from "extremely undervalued compensation" to "reasonable compensation," and there has been no further extreme outflow of miner funds.CryptoQuant stated that miner selling pressure was an important source of supply that continuously affected Bitcoin prices during the bear market of 2026. The current disappearance of this stable selling pressure may help alleviate market supply pressure.

HIVE Digital Technologies Executive Chairman Frank Holmes stated in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine that governments around the world will continue to print money, potentially reaching 100 trillion dollars, which makes him optimistic about Bitcoin and gold. He pointed out that Bitcoin miners already possess the electricity, land, and substations required for AI, and referred to Bitcoin mining as a "tier one data center."Holmes introduced that HIVE had previously used GPUs for mining Ethereum to enter the AI field, and he believes the next wave of AI factories will be built on mining infrastructure from Paraguay to Canada. He also discussed how ETFs can transform Bitcoin from "fear trading" to "love trading," as well as how players and the younger quantitative trading community are driving Bitcoin adoption.Additionally, he mentioned Binance's 19 billion dollar liquidation and 350 trillion dollars in money supply, 40 trillion dollars printed during the COVID-19 pandemic, global MMT risks, Bitcoin mining in China with 1.4 trillion dollars in loans, central banks purchasing gold, the Central Bank of Paraguay and Bitcoin mining exports, and computing power as a commodity, along with Canada's AI advancements and the electricity advantages of Bitcoin miners.

A team led by JPMorgan analyst Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou released a report on Wednesday stating that Bitcoin recently surpassed the estimated production cost of approximately $85,000. The report noted that Bitcoin had been below this estimated average production cost for 280 consecutive days before breaking above it during this week's rebound, briefly trading above it before slightly retreating, at around $84,100.The analysts indicated that historically, production costs have acted as a soft floor for Bitcoin prices. When prices remain below this level for an extended period, miners with high electricity and equipment costs may become unprofitable. The last time Bitcoin was below the estimated production cost for a similar duration was in 2018, lasting about 224 days, during which the price drop prompted high-cost miners to shut down, leading to a decrease in Bitcoin network hash rate and mining difficulty.The analysts stated that the mining industry today is larger and more industrialized than in 2018, but the same adjustment mechanism still applies, namely the exit of high-cost miners. If this new situation can be maintained, it should provide relief for Bitcoin miners, thereby reducing their risk of being forced to sell.

According to Bitcoin.com, the developers of Bitcoin BLAKE2b plan to restrict miners from unlocking newly mined tokens, with a waiting period set at 45 days. The relevant changes are scheduled to be implemented at block height 973440.This chain was forked from Bitcoin on August 8. Its native token BTCB2 is also labeled by some trading platforms as Bitcoin BLAKE2b, Bitcoin BIP-110, or XBT.BTCB2 has dropped 84% from its September peak of $1799, with recent trading prices around $270 to $315. Developer Luke Dashjr stated that some BLAKE2b mining pools are "attacking" the network. After the fork, the chain continued to use Bitcoin's difficulty, mining only about 8 blocks in the first 22 days, and then resumed operation by enabling BLAKE2b hashing and adjusting the difficulty.Currently, this chain is not listed on most trading platforms, nor on CoinGecko or CoinMarketCap. The trading platform Neoxa has expressed support for the upcoming soft fork.

Cryptocurrency asset management company CoinShares stated that the shift of Bitcoin miners to AI has reached a level that is difficult to reverse even with a native Bitcoin recovery.At least 35 EH/s of computing power is planned to leave listed mining companies, among which the listed Bitcoin mining company IREN plans to exit by the end of the year, and Cipher may follow by the end of 2027.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, a miner from Braiins Solo discovered block number 966351, receiving a full block reward of 3.147 BTC, approximately equivalent to $244,900.Currently, the top five mining pools control 78.31% of the hash rate; the last independent block was produced on August 2, from Solo CKPool.

According to Bitcoin.com, an independent Bitcoin miner mining through Braiins Solo successfully mined a block with a height of 966351, receiving the full block reward of 3.147 BTC, worth approximately $245,000.This is the first time in nearly 40 days that an independent miner has successfully mined a block on the Bitcoin network. The last occurrence was on August 2, when a miner mining through Solo CKPool received a reward of 3.1569 BTC. Currently, the five major mining pools—Foundry, Antpool, F2Pool, ViaBTC, and Spiderpool—collectively control about 78.31% of the Bitcoin network's hash rate, making the probability of independent miners successfully mining a block relatively low.

According to Bitcoin.com, an independent Bitcoin miner mining through Braiins Solo successfully mined a block with a height of 966351, receiving the entire block reward of 3.147 BTC, worth approximately $245,000.This is the first time in nearly 40 days that an independent miner has successfully mined a block on the Bitcoin network. The last occurrence was on August 2, when a miner mining through Solo CKPool received a reward of 3.1569 BTC. Currently, the five major mining pools—Foundry, Antpool, F2Pool, ViaBTC, and Spiderpool—collectively control about 78.31% of the Bitcoin network's hash rate, making it relatively low for independent miners to successfully mine blocks.

The cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex posted on X that the Bitcoin miner position index is currently -1.2, well below its annual average.Miners are holding supply, even though the breakthrough in August briefly pushed it up to 2.8. An index above 2 means that miners are selling again, and current selling activity is relatively sluggish.

As of September 5 at 14:00, Bitcoin miners' holdings were approximately 1.1919 million BTC, an increase of 261 BTC compared to a week ago, marking the first weekly growth of this scale in about two weeks since August 26.During the same period, the 7-day average hash rate of Bitcoin was approximately 934 million TH/s, an increase of about 41.11 million TH/s compared to a week ago. The Bitcoin Puell Multiple rose to 1, an increase of 0.04 compared to a week ago.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, 7 miner wallets transferred 350 bitcoins 6 hours ago, worth 28 million dollars. These bitcoins were obtained by the aforementioned miners through mining in March 2010.

Flop Labs announced the FLOP token economics draft, with no VC allocation, no presale, and airdrops aimed at miners, validators, agents, and early community participants.According to the draft chart, the total supply of tokens is expected to reach 17.2 billion in the 10th year, with a terminal year inflation rate of 0.6%; in the total supply distribution, miners account for the highest proportion at 51.2% (8.8 billion), airdrops account for 20.4% (3.5 billion, subdivided into miners, validators, agents, and reserve incentives), the team and foundation account for 11.4% (2 billion), validators and brokers/agents each account for 6.8% (1.2 billion each), and staking rewards account for 3.4% (600 million).Flop Labs stated that an AMA hosted by Arthur Hayes (CryptoHayes) will be held next week on X Spaces/YouTube to announce more details. The project team emphasized that the above token economics data is all draft and specific details may change.

"White-haired stock god" Serenity posted on the X platform, stating that after a series of fact sheets released by the U.S. government recently, the future key industries that the U.S. will support and develop can be seen more clearly.Serenity pointed out that this week the U.S. government released policy documents related to the "Golden Age of Space Transportation," with the space industry becoming a key focus area. She believes that the relevant policy goals will promote the development of the launch industry and may benefit companies in the space industry chain, including rocket manufacturers.The U.S. government has set a goal of achieving 1,000 launches and re-entry missions annually by 2030, with rocket companies like Rocket Lab (RKLB) expected to be beneficiaries. In addition, Serenity mentioned that this month the areas of focus for U.S. policy also include: tariffs on drone components; U.S. mining and critical mineral resource cooperation; adjustments to polysilicon supply chain tariffs; and other strategic industry policies. By continuously observing U.S. government policy documents, one can more intuitively judge the industry directions that the capital market will focus on in the future and help investors discover potential industrial opportunities.

Bitcoin Hashprice has risen by 20.41% in the past 4 days, from $31.8 per PH/s to $38.29 per PH/s. Hashprice is used to measure the mining revenue corresponding to specific computing power, and this increase has boosted miner income. As of now, there are a total of 133 large, medium, and small mining pools and individual mining operations contributing computing power to the Bitcoin network. The mining pool Foundry USA leads with 214.73 EH/s, followed by Antpool and F2pool at 156.17 EH/s and 110.62 EH/s respectively, and ViaBTC at 91.02 EH/s.The total computing power of the Bitcoin network has risen to approximately 922 EH/s, nearing 1 ZH/s. Miners in August are currently earning $682.69 million from block subsidies and transaction fees, of which transaction fee revenue is $5.14 million, down from $875 million in July. The average block interval for the Bitcoin network is 10 minutes and 5 seconds, and current data indicates that the difficulty adjustment is expected to decrease by about 1% for the day. Based on an electricity cost of $0.1 per kilowatt-hour, the Bitmain Antminer S23 Hydro 3U is expected to earn $17.86 daily.

As of August 15, Bitcoin miners' holdings have dropped to approximately 1.1919 million BTC, a decrease of 885 coins from a week ago, marking a new low since May 31.During the same period, the overall network hash rate has declined, and the Puell Multiple remains at 0.75.

BIP-110 received only about 2.5% miner hash power support when the activation deadline was reached and failed to activate. The nodes executing the proposal forked from the mainnet at block height 961632, and a minority chain subsequently stopped producing blocks.Bitcoin Mechanic, a supporter of BIP-110, stated that this outcome proves Bitcoin has encountered "protocol capture," where large mining pool operators coordinate to influence consensus rules and undermine node sovereignty. Since the minority chain received less than 3% of the total network hash power, its inherited mining difficulty led to a halt in block production. Some supporters are considering changing the PoW algorithm through a hard fork, and Bitcoin Mechanic indicated that they would wait to resume node operations after the Bitcoin Knots update.Cysic founder and CEO Leo Fan stated that the difficulty adjustment mechanism protects the main chain, and the mandatory activation design of BIP-110 is the main issue. The anonymous owner of 1win pointed out that the proposal only received 2.53% support, below the 55% activation threshold, and the main chain is still continuously operating.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, an address suspected to belong to miners transferred 1,019 BTC (approximately $66.42 million) to Binance 7 hours ago.This portion of BTC originated from an institutional trading platform, FalconX, received a year ago at an average price of $116,110. After being held for a year and losing 44% of its value, it began to be transferred to the exchange.