• workerONE@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    To be clear it’s not the cost to mine one Bitcoin which could be done on a hundred PCs. It’s hundreds of thousands of miners running concurrently in competition. The cost to mine vs buy has always been a factor.

    $19,000 loss from 500,000 miners is like $0.04 per miner every ten minutes.