It's not a 'side hustle' it's not a 2nd job.
I am never going to make any money riding motorcycles it's a hobby.
But nowadays people are riding bikes and making money by posting social media videos, I know posting social media videos is a different thing, but they are making videos of their driving, some are dancing while driving bikes, some are racing, some are throwing some lines at girl bikers, etc. etc. and making videos of themselves posting on Instagram and getting promotions.
I see hobby miners as the same, they like the mining tech, they like playing around, and as long as they don't loose the house payment buying and tinkering with miners it's not a big deal.
What I would call 'home miners' are people looking to make a profit, be it mining out of their basement / garage / whatever.
Just wondering how other people view things like this. It's more semantics, but when someone says 'hobby' miner to me I see something different then 'home' miner. And if we are having a discussion we can wind up thinking the other person is thinking something else.
I agree only rich and tech people can mine BTC as a hobby, electricity is the big issue here, so maybe someone getting free electricity from the government in some kind of subsidy or due to work, they might use that electricity to mine as well. If I will have big farms of solar panels or wind power generators and I will have free electricity, then I will definitely buy some rigs and will give BTC mining a try. If it turns out to be okay as my hobby,, like it should be fun, mind refreshing then I will go for it.
But this will be fun for some time only once the rigs are set and the setup is running It won't be a fun or a hobby then we have to find another hobby haha.