According to CoinMeta, as reported by digital and asset, as of 14:00 on September 5th, the number of Bitcoin miners' holdings was approximately 1.1919 million BTC, an increase of 261 BTC from a week earlier, marking the first weekly increase of this magnitude since August 26th. The article suggests that the increase in miners' holdings indicates that more profits from mining BTC are being retained rather than sold, lent, or used as collateral. During the same period, the average Bitcoin hash rate was around 934 million TH per second, an increase of about 41.11 million TH per second from a week prior. The Bitcoin Puell Multiple also rose to 1.00, an increase of 0.04 from a week ago.