Quote from: NwWork on September 14, 2025, 11:12:08 AM

Quote from: HodlIsComing on September 09, 2025, 01:26:58 PM

Let’s say I buy a Bitaxe 4TH to mine at home, would you recommend leaving it in a pool or mining solo?

Quote from: philipma1957 on June 21, 2025, 12:56:25 PM

Quote from: Outhue on June 20, 2025, 11:38:18 AM

Bitcoin.

Easy to buy, harder to mine.

As a newbie you are, to mine Bitcoin it depends on two things.

1. Your electricity must be very cheap.
2. Your pocket must be heavy.

It costs a lot to mine Bitcoin in 2025 and its only getting started, mining isn't for many people anymore, there are also some things that can happen after you get everything running.

A hardware part can die on you, how long your equipment will last will always remain a misery.

I will choose to buy and hold or else I really want to mine as a hobbist, the past you was a miner? If no I recommend you think this through very carefully.

Well I do not think anyone can go big and make good money anymore.

You can go small and if you need a space heater it is okay to do.

Avalon Mini 3

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=avalon+mini+3&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_udlo=800&_udhi=1%2C500&rt=nc&LH_PrefLoc=1

Now you will not get rich on it.

My units you will not get rich on them.

or real small

https://altairtech.io/product/bitaxe/

but to think you can buy a container and fill it with 100 miners and play with the big boys nope I would advise against it.

You go with the pool with lowest payout amount that way you will stand chance of getting more frequent payouts since alone clearing blocks take long time.

And for OP he/she should first use a mining benchmark software or online tool to find out hash rate hardware they are going to use like laptop/pc/phone etc how much it can generate while system runs stablely. Then if it is H/s or KH/s or MH/s or GH/s or TH/s you can decide which coin to mine. So as u see many here say BTC mining you need TH/s which means if your a person with limited low performance equipment BTC mining to reach the 1st payout will take you several years. So example if your getting H/s then your only option is coins that are cpu minable which can net like $0.36 per month with H/S of 400 if on rx/o algorithm so as others said this is great if your electricity cost is low or your equipment is crazy energy efficient or you are using solar etc free electricity sources

To calculate the payback of mining on a processor, you need to take into account the cost of the entire computer when calculating the payback. If you calculate this, you will understand that such mining is only profitable if you have this equipment.