Can Hobbyist Bitcoin Miners Still Make a Buck?
Is a perfect storm of rising difficulty and falling bitcoin prices killing home-based hobbyist mining? Some industry experts think so. Ravi Iyengar, founder and CEO of CoinTerra, said that his company used to sell equal numbers of ASIC mining units to individual investors and institutional miners, who would buy them in larger volumes. "The ratio of small retail miners to institutional miners has gone down," said Iyengar, adding that now, fewer than 20% of the units CoinTerra sells go to people mining from home. The downturn in sales to retail miners happened over the last five months, as....
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For a hobbyist bitcoin miner, the industry is a different place than it was a few years ago. It used to be that you could use your CPU or GPU to mine bitcoin. But then the price of bitcoin started rising and people began to realize how much money could be earned, and – with the resulting rise in mining difficulty – only those that could afford costly ASICs were in a position to actually make any profit. Soon enough, only the largest operations could compete. Research shows that, for new miners, the price of a bitcoin needs to be at least $600 to break even if electricity costs are less....
“I'm not in crypto to make a fast buck, but I'll take the bonus,” said Simon Byrne. Crypto enthusiast Simon Byrne has taken crypto mining out of the garage and onto the road after installing a small farm in the trunk of his car.According to a report from Hardware Times, Byrne purchased a BMV i8 hybrid vehicle retailing for roughly $150,000 and equipped it with a small crypto mining rig consisting of six GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards. The rig is powered by an ASUS B250 Mining Expert board and an EVGA SuperNOVA 1600 T2 power supply. It is reportedly capable of mining both Bitcoin (BTC) and....
Bitcoin miners have been in a bind for a while now. When the price of the digital asset dropped, it inadvertently affected the cash flow and profits made from mining activities. Hence a lot of miners have had to sell off their BTC holdings to make ends meet. Public miners have not been left out […]
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Bitcoin has been forced to make a retest of the $27,000 level in the past day as the miners have participated in a large selloff. Bitcoin Miners Have Sold 20,000 BTC In Past Week According to data from the market intelligence platform IntoTheBlock, BTC miners have done some significant selling during the last week. The […]