Topic 5567484
Re: Minimum Electric Bill
by on 14/12/2025, 02:34:49 UTC
At the end of 60 months I would expect to have earned around .80 BTC so any price over $45k should be net positive.
How did you calculate to expect to mine .8 BTC during such a long period of mining (60 months)?

You buy some mining gear and with that you basically have a somewhat constant but limited hashrate (unless you add gear). Did you take difficulty adjustments into account? (I didn't do a quick napkin calculation to estimate if you've taken this into account; my gutt feeling tells me, you didn't).

Have a closer look how global hashrate evolves over past months and calculate a few scenarios for your 60 months time frame how global hashrate might develop (you can extrapolate the past into the future; block subsidy adjustments could pose some challenges, depending how Bitcoin rate develops). When your own hashrate is constant and global hashrate and difficulty rise, guess what that means! Hint: your mining gear earns you less and less coins because your hashrate proportion sinks...

60 months is smart but if you can calculate that way correctly you shouldn't be mining and just buying it at the low points and selling at highs