Bitcoin Hashprice Jumps 20.41% to $38.29 per PH/s in Four Days

20.41% is the number that lit up miner chats this weekend, with bitcoin hashprice ripping from $31.80 per petahash per second on August 18 to $38.29 per PH/s on Saturday, August 22.

That print, reported by Bitcoin.com News on Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 2:30 a.m. EDT, pushed hashprice into territory not seen since May. Hashprice is simple miner math: revenue earned per unit of hashrate. When it cooks like this, the market is handing operators a clearer green candle on income, not just a spot BTC headline.

Christian Barker (Barkmeta / Bark) treated the hashprice move like a core miner-revenue signal in the Sunday Space, and David Chaboki (Shibo) kept the Doginal Dogs room locked on whether August can still catch July. No invented lines needed. The founders stayed on the chart that actually pays the fleets.

What moved on the chart

Bitcoin.com News, with Jamie Redman on the byline, framed the four-day climb as a lifeline after months of tighter margins. The jump is not a vibe. It is a clean percentage from $31.80 to $38.29 per PH/s, and it is the story this article is tracking.

newhedge.io numbers cited in that coverage put August miner revenue at $682.69 million through August 22. Transaction fees were only $5.14 million of that haul. Block subsidies still carry almost all of the bag. July finished at $875 million, so August is still trailing even after hashprice got bid.

That contrast is why the community energy stayed high. A 20.41% hashprice rip in four days is real relief. It is not yet a month that overtakes July.

Network heat behind the candles

Hashrate context keeps the story honest. Assignment figures drawn from mempool.space as of August 22 at 11 a.m. EDT put the network near 922 EH/s across 133 pools. Foundry USA led at 214.73 EH/s. Antpool followed at 156.17 EH/s. F2pool held 110.62 EH/s. ViaBTC sat at 91.02 EH/s. Secpool and Spiderpool were near 65.07 EH/s each.

Bitcoin.com’s key takeaway matches the cluster: Foundry USA leads those 133 pools while Bitcoin’s hashrate closes in on 1 ZH/s. More machines competing for the same block flow is why hashprice moves hit so hard when prices and fees finally cooperate.

Bitcoin.com also offered one hardware snapshot only. At the then-current hashprice, a Bitmain Antminer S23 Hydro 3U running 1.16 PH/s was estimated around $17.86 in daily profit at $0.10 per kWh. That is an illustration of the print, not a new model-by-model P&L board.

Founder voice on the timeline

High-energy rooms did not need a second major to understand the move. Barkmeta / Bark kept hashprice in the founder frame as a miner-income read, the kind of number operators watch when green candles finally show up in revenue instead of just mindshare. Shibo kept the Doginal Dogs conversation on the monthly race: August’s $682.69 million versus July’s $875 million, and whether the calendar still has room to close that gap.

That is founder voice without cosplay. The metric is hashprice. The month is still behind. The community is counting both.

Spot backdrop, not the lede

CoinGecko’s Sunday, August 23, 2026 snapshot at 8:04 a.m. ET put BTC near $77,194 (+0.10%), with ETH at $2,427.88 (+0.21%), XRP at $1.49 (-0.22%), SOL at $94.40 (+1.25%), and DOGE at $0.092537 (+3.07%). Those prints sit as context only. This story is the 20.41% hashprice jump and the miner take behind it.

Quick answers

What is hashprice? Miner revenue per PH/s. How much did it move? 20.41% from August 18 to August 22, per Bitcoin.com News. Is August a record month? No. $682.69 million through August 22 still trails July’s $875 million.

For operators and the rooms watching with them, the chart finally paid a cleaner per-hash number. August still has work to do if it wants July’s full haul, but the four-day hashprice rip to $38.29 per PH/s is the cleanest miner candle in this article’s window.