Bitcoin Fundamental Tool Produces Worst Reading Since the Bull Run Began

  Bitcoin has given the worst Puell Multiple since this bull run began. The coin has been on a downward spiral lately. News of crackdowns out of China. Miners having to find alternate locations for their activities. Mining facilities are airlifting their mining rigs out of China to the U.S. China also issued a ban […]
  Bitcoin has given the worst Puell Multiple since this bull run began. The coin has been on a downward spiral lately. News of crackdowns out of China. Miners having to find alternate locations for their activities. Mining facilities are airlifting their mining rigs out of China to the U.S. China also issued a ban […]

 

Bitcoin has given the worst Puell Multiple since this bull run began. The coin has been on a downward spiral lately. News of crackdowns out of China. Miners having to find alternate locations for their activities. Mining facilities are airlifting their mining rigs out of China to the U.S. China also issued a ban on digital currency transactions. The country ordered banks to block all transactions involving crypto.

There have been record crypto liquidations taking place. With approximately $1 billion pulled out of the market overnight. Crashing prices along the way. A culmination of these events has led to the worst Puell Multiple reading in recent months.

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This has dragged the Puell Multiple down to a staggering 0.81. The lowest it has ever been in eight months.

The Puell Multiple is the ratio of the daily value of the issued coin in USD divided by 365 days moving average of the daily value of issued coins in USD.

Bitcoin Hash Rate Falls

With so many miners out of commission in China, the bitcoin hash rate has fallen dangerously low. The hash rate for BTC has been below 105 billion for two days in a row. The seven-day average dropped down to 129.1 million exahashes on Tuesday.

the total computational power used to secure transactions on the blockchain is the bitcoin hash rate.

This is the lowest that the hash rate has been in over six months.

Bitcoin chart from TradingView.com

Bitcoin price falls as hash rate falls | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com

This is a direct result of the ban on crypto mining in China. Entire regions have shut down their mining farms. With the remaining mining farms in other regions poised to follow suit. Sichuan’s initiative making the list for the clampdown of mining operations.

State-run electricity companies have been asked to make sure that no crypto activities are being carried out.

Number Of Daily Issued BTC Falls

The number of daily issued bitcoin has fallen.

The number of bitcoins mined per block fell to 6.25 after the last halving. With about 144 blocks mined each day, this added up to about 900 bitcoins mined each day.

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With the recent crackdowns on mining, the number of BTC issued each day has fallen. This is due to the fact that a lot of miners are offline. So, this means that not enough blocks are being hashed. Due to not enough computational power only to solve the complex equations required to process bitcoin transactions.

Roughly 700 bitcoins were issued into the market in the last 24 hours.

This number translates to a 22% decreased in the number of bitcoins mined.

This leaves a lot of uncertainty in the market regarding the future of the coin. And the market in general.

Featured image from Nairametrics, chart from TradingView.com