Bitcoin ‘Halving’ Risks Sinking Already-Struggling Miners

Crypto enthusiasts are hopeful that a once-in-four-years event which rewrites the underlying code of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency will extend the current market rally. But the milestone also risks sounding the death knell for certain Bitcoin miners.

The quadrennial event, rather ominously dubbed “the Halving” or “Halvening,” has historically been followed by exponential surges in Bitcoin’s price. The last three occurrences in 2012, 2016 and 2020 saw the token jump nearly 8,450%, 290% and 560% a year on, Bloomberg data shows. Bitcoin was launched in 2009 by a computer programmer or group of programmers under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. ...