Great share. Also wish we had data on average electricity cost for plebs. I imagine its at least a full cent or two above the US industrial average rate.
Reasons home miners continue mining in the current environment vary, but will include how obtaining KYC-free BTC from other methods also incurs a premium, or that the cost of electricity is subsidized or paid by another party, or the heat is reused, etc.
I think it is time to decentralize and avoid concentration
of ASICs in mega-grids. It is better to relocate miners all
over the globe and invite people to integrate them in
their houses, using them to warm the rooms or
dry clothes instead of dryers and so on.
Here's the Tweet by the author of the report that kicked off the Twitter thread where the Coinshares report was first shared:
If miners paid the current US average industrial electricity price (8.96 ¢/kWh), only the latest generation series machines (s19/m30/a12) would generate positive cash flow, which did not hit the market until earliest mid-2020.
Great share. Also wish we had data on average electricity cost for plebs. I imagine its at least a full cent or two above the US industrial average rate.
In the U.S., residential rates are, in general, going to be far higher than the industrial rate in nearly every specific region.
https://i.postimg.cc/LX4RNFYz/Screenshot-at-2022-10-18-23-03-57.png
Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/200197/average-retail-price-of-electricity-in-the-us-by-sector-since-1998
Average energy prices for the United States, regions, census divisions, and selected metropolitan areas https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices_selectedareas_table.htm
Reasons home miners continue mining in the current environment vary, but will include how obtaining KYC-free BTC from other methods also incurs a premium, or that the cost of electricity is subsidized or paid by another party, or the heat is reused, etc.
I think it is time to decentralize and avoid concentration of ASICs in mega-grids. It is better to relocate miners all over the globe and invite people to integrate them in their houses, using them to warm the rooms or dry clothes instead of dryers and so on.Here's the Tweet by the author of the report that kicked off the Twitter thread where the Coinshares report was first shared:
https://twitter.com/MatthewKimmell/status/1582402590813302785 [Nitter]