The profitability for Bitcoin production largely depends on power pricing. Here's one country-average based breakdown (from Feb 2018) - you can look at the $600

The profitability for Bitcoin production largely depends on power pricing. Here's one country-average based breakdown (from Feb 2018) - you can look at the $6000 down level to see where it's still profitable: https://cointelegraph.com/news/mining-margins-and-where-to-make-the-most-money https://cointelegraph.com/news/mining-margins-and-where-to-m... You can also use a mining calculator to do a real time spot-check of whether Bitcoin is profitable to mine or not as well (even if you have pretty average electricity prices, very much so): http://whattomine.com/asic?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sha256f=true http://whattomine.com/asic?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sha256f=true For those interested in the most accurate and in-depth analysis on the economics, power consumption, and other aspects of Bitcoin mining, I can highly recommend @mrb's writeups like http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/ http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/ and http://blog.zorinaq.com/morgan-stanley-bitcoin-research-reports/ http://blog.zorinaq.com/morgan-stanley-bitcoin-research-repo... Note that the original article/title is pretty flawed to begin with since there are no tokens that depend on Bitcoin mining to begin with! (90% of tokens by market-cap are based on Ethereum, mining which is even more profitable than Bitcoin, and the economics of which will be changing drastically w/ Casper V2 soon).