Bitcoin Mining Stocks Soar as BTC Blows Past $20K

Share prices for publicly traded bitcoin mining companies are climbing as the leading cryptocurrency sliced through $20,000 Wednesday.

AccessTimeIconDec 16, 2020 at 5:03 p.m. UTC
Updated Mar 6, 2023 at 3:13 p.m. UTC
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Share prices for publicly traded bitcoin mining companies are soaring as the leading cryptocurrency sliced through the highly anticipated $20,000 mark Wednesday morning.

  • Riot Blockchain ( RIOThttps://hashrateindex.com/stocks/riot), Marathon Patent Group ( MARAhttps://hashrateindex.com/stocks/mara) and Hive Blockchain (HIVE) all show double-digit percentage gains since the daily open at last check. Hive is up 25% on the day.
  • All three companies are now individually worth over $450 million.
  • Toronto-based Hut 8 ( HUThttps://hashrateindex.com/stocks/hut-ct) mining gained nearly 9% since the trading started Wednesday. The company currently is worth $168 million.
  • Over the same period, bitcoin gained 7%.
  • “Mining stocks are a very attractive way for investors to get upside exposure to [the] bitcoin price while being limited on the downside due to the infrastructure nature of the business,” Ethan Vera, co-founder of mining company Luxor Technologies, told CoinDesk earlier this month.
  • “The best mining companies can deliver profits in bear markets and have outsized returns in bull runs,” Vera said.
  • Year to date, bitcoin has gained over 185%.

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