TREE NEWS reports: JPMorgan analysts said bitcoin’s move above its estimated $85,000 production cost could ease miner selling pressure if the level is sustained. The bank’s estimate puts the world’s largest cryptocurrency above the marginal cost of mining for the first time in the current cycle, a threshold analysts tie to reduced forced selling by miners.
JPMorgan: Bitcoin Above $85,000 Production Cost Could Ease Miner Selling
The framing here matters more than the level itself: JPMorgan is treating an estimated production cost as a behavioural trigger for miner supply, not as a valuation anchor. Miners are structurally forced sellers when price sits below marginal cost, so a sustained move above it can quietly remove a persistent source of order flow — a mechanical shift rather than a sentiment one. The open question is whether the level holds long enough to change treasury and hedging behaviour, since the effect depends on persistence, not on a single print.
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