Is bitcoin mining just completely not profitable for retail?
Is bitcoin mining just completely not profitable for retail?
Bitmain Antminer KS5 Pro. The state of the art mining rig today, pumps out 21TH of hashrate. You can buy one to receive this month for 30k, or wait until august and get it for a cheap 11k$.
21TH, will make you 1$/day.
That’s 27 years for ROI (obviously not because of difficulty and price changes, but let’s assume.)
Say you buy 20 of these bad boys.
This is going to set you back 220,000$. For a hashrate of 420 THs.
It will take you 500 days, to be able to accumulate 11k, to add one more miner to your farm.
Remember I am completely disregarding any electricity costs here, just to realize how absurd it all is.
Is there any conceivable scenario, where buying a bitcoin miner today, is more financially profitable than just buying bitcoin?
Yeah, you’re talking about two completely different things, you can’t take anything other than a sha256 ASIC to make plans on BTC mining…