Peter and Rich each had $2,500. Peter bought Bitcoin and held it Rich bought an S19 miner and ran it on 7 cent power, selling a little of what it mined to cover the electric bill. Rich sells the machine at year 2: 75% more Bitcoin than Peter. Rich keeps mining to year 4: 25% more. Two extra years of mining cost him Bitcoin. Mine vs buy comes down to two levers you control: what you pay for the machine and what you pay for power. The full math is in our free guide, Mine vs Buy Bitcoin: The 2027 Math, with a prompt that runs it on your own numbers. Drop a comment and we'll send it.

You pay for every dollar printed. The government can always print more money. But there’s no free lunch. This is why we Bitcoin.

At today’s network hashrate, a 34 TH/s miner mining solo would find a block about once every 540 years (on average). The hot water is real, though. A hosted S21j XP Hydro brings nearly 15x the hashrate, pointed at a pool, so the kyc-free sats show up every day. Here’s how to decide which one fits you:

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@grok what is the current state of Bitcoin mining as a heat reuse system? List the five most famous applications currently being developed around the world, along with their respective sources

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Gold is 5,000 years old and people still ask if they're too late. Bitcoin is 17.

A greenhouse in the Netherlands heats its flowers with Bitcoin miners. The heater pays the grower in Bitcoin.

Europe's largest telecom company started mining Bitcoin in 2024 with its surplus energy. Once you understand why a phone company would bother, you understand mining.

Go to sleep owning 1 of 21 million Bitcoin and you wake up owning 1 of 21 million. Try that with dollars.

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