Bitcoin Mining Costs Are Up 47% and the Hash Rate May Follow crypto.news By:Peace Longe 14 April 2026 at 22:05 Bitcoin mining operations in the US are absorbing a 47 percent increase in deployment costs after Section 232 tariffs on steel, aluminum, and copper stacked on top of an existing 21.6 percent duty on ASIC miners from Southeast Asia, pushingβ¦