Bitcoin Miner Behavior Confirms Local Bottom Formation At $80,000 – Details

The Bitcoin (BTC) market continues to stabilize around $90,000 following a significant price recovery in the last week. Before these recent gains, the maiden cryptocurrency had undergone a heavy market correction, dropping about 36.10% from its all-time high of around $126,100.  Amid the ongoing consolidation, the latest data on Bitcoin miner activity suggests the asset may have hit a local bottom with sights now set on a sustained uptrend. 

Notably, market analyst BorisD shares on the CryptoQuant QuickTake platform an insight that suggests Bitcoin likely formed a local bottom as it dipped to $80,000 during its recent correction phase. The expert explains that this theory is confirmed by Bitcoin miners recording an underpaid status, which has historically been a strong signal in confirming a local market bottom. 

For context, Bitcoin miners become underpaid when the mining revenue, i.e., block rewards + fees, falls below miners’ average operating costs, resulting in financial stress, forced selling, and capitulation of certain miners, possibly due to bankruptcy.

BorisD explains that Bitcoin miner profitability has been a consistent guiding metric in determining potential market tops or bottoms. For example, miner revenue in early 2024 reached intensely high levels as prices rallied strongly. This condition, created by a rise in transaction fees and block dollar value, allowed miners to become profitable to distribute supply to the market, thereby aligning early topping structures.

By mid-2024, the market had created a pattern where capitulation zones often indicated local bottoms, and severely overpaid zones matched market tops with heavy liquidity outflows. Notably, this pattern held throughout late 2024, early and mid 2025, during which miners’ revenue alternated between the overpaid and underpaid zone.

As Bitcoin’s price struggled in Q4 2025, falling to around $80,000, BorisD explains that miners experienced another deep underpaid regime that completed a capitulation cycle, exhaustion of miner-driven selling pressure, but most importantly, confirmation of price local bottom.

At the time of writing, Bitcoin trades at $90,898 after a minor 0.64% gain in the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, the daily trading volume is down 36.32% to $38.77 billion.

According to BorisD, Bitcoin miners’ profitability is expected to continue improving, provided the market price stays above $80,000. This dynamic, in turn, supports a continuation of upward price momentum, potentially pushing Bitcoin toward another market top. Although the present market cycle has displayed atypical behavior compared to previous ones, analysts remain broadly optimistic. Many expect Bitcoin not only to recover but to eventually surpass its prior six-figure valuation.