{"id":17596,"date":"2025-03-13T13:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=17596"},"modified":"2025-03-13T13:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:46:40","slug":"bitcoin-miners-ride-the-btc-boom-but-costs-tell-a-different-story-jpmorgan-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=17596","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Miners Ride The BTC Boom, But Costs Tell A Different Story: JPMorgan Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) miners just had one of their best quarters on record, but the real winners aren&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/topic\/bitcoin-miners\">just those mining<\/a> the most coins \u2013 it&#8217;s those keeping costs in check.<\/p>\n<p>JPMorgan analyst Reginald L. Smith breaks down the latest trends in the sector, upgrading <strong>IREN Ltd<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/IREN#NASDAQ\">IREN<\/a>) to Overweight while moving <strong>Cipher Mining Inc<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/CIFR#NASDAQ\">CIFR<\/a>) to Neutral.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Record Quarter, But Who Benefited Most?<\/h2>\n<p>The fourth quarter saw four of the five major publicly traded bitcoin miners \u2013 Cipher, <strong>CleanSpark Inc<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/CLSK#NASDAQ\">CLSK<\/a>), IREN, MARA Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/MARA#NASDAQ\">MARA<\/a>) and <strong>Riot Platforms Inc<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/RIOT#NASDAQ\">RIOT<\/a>) \u2013 report record revenues and profits, largely thanks to Bitcoin&#8217;s price surge. <\/p>\n<p>MARA led the pack in total coins mined (2,514 BTC), but IREN stole the show with a 65% increase in production quarter-over-quarter, bringing in 1,347 BTC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44287639\/trump-appointed-sec-chair-could-fast-track-crypto-etf-approvals-xrp-solana-dogecoin-etfs-coming-by-june\">Trump-Appointed SEC Chair Could Fast-Track Crypto ETF Approvals: XRP, Solana, Dogecoin ETFs Coming By June?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 ...><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/03\/44301936\/bitcoin-miners-ride-the-btc-boom-but-costs-tell-a-different-story-jpmorgan\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" miners ride the btc boom but costs tell a different story: jpmorgan analyst>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) miners just had one of their best quarters on record, but the real winners aren&#8217;t just those mining the most coins \u2013 it&#8217;s those keeping costs in check. JPMorgan analyst Reginald L. Smith breaks down the latest trends in the sector, upgrading IREN Ltd (NASDAQ:IREN) to Overweight while moving Cipher Mining Inc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-17596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}