Bitcoin Mining: Harder Than Finding a Good Rom-Com 🎬⛏️
Remember when it hit a previous high in August? Well, it’s been climbing like Liz Lemon’s caffeine intake, despite everyone predicting it would chill out. Spoiler: it did not chill out. ☕💥
Remember when it hit a previous high in August? Well, it’s been climbing like Liz Lemon’s caffeine intake, despite everyone predicting it would chill out. Spoiler: it did not chill out. ☕💥
If you’re keeping score-and let’s face it, who isn’t?-that’s a near-unanimous pivot from “no cuts” to “multiple cuts incoming.” It’s like watching a flock of sheep suddenly decide they’re all going vegan. 🐑🥗
According to the seven-day simple moving average (SMA) tracked by hashrateindex.com, Bitcoin’s total hashrate reached 1,013 exahash per second (EH/s) on Sept. 2, breaking through the 1,000 EH/s mark, which is the symbolic threshold for a single zettahash. It’s like Bitcoin is saying, “I can do sextillions of hashes per second, and you’re still here?”
Back in the frosty depths of December 2024, Itaú Unibanco wisely cracked open the gates to let their clientele trade Bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) directly from their trusty banking app. Why? Because apparently, everyone and their grandma suddenly fancied themselves as crypto traders. According to the ever-trustworthy sources at CNN Brasil, this was all thanks to “very large demand,” or as we like to call it, “lots of people screaming ‘where’s my Bitcoin?’ at their phones.” 📲
On a Saturday in September 2025, Bitcoin moseyed along at $110,894, down 1.8% in the past 24 hours, its hooves dragging between $110,339 and $113,142. This digital stallion, as they call it, ain’t been tamed yet. Coinglass.com’s metrics show futures open interest at 717,980 BTC ($79.63 billion), a number so big it’d make a Texas rancher blush. CME leads the pack with 136,380 BTC ($15.12 billion), followed by Binance and Bybit, each with their own chunk of the pie. 🥧