"-Miners typically need to sell their coin immediately as they have invested in equipment that expects a return"
Can someone please clarify for me, in layman's terms, how the investment a miner makes to acquire a coin is any more at risk than the investment a trader makes to acquire a coin? Once the coin is in your wallet, the relative return on that coin, once sold, is identical for both cases isn't it?
Miner: Spent $10 on equipment costs, $90 on power and cooling, received one Bitcoin worth $100
Speculator: Spent $90 on some exchange, $10 on fees, received one Bitcoin worth $100
Why are these two individuals in any different situation once they have turned their non-coin assets into coin? Up until the moment the coin landed in their wallet, their pre-coin assets could have performed wildly different to each other. But once they have been converted to coin, they perform the same? Or am I making the mistake of thinking miners do not see themselves as speculators but as something like 'manufacturers' and are thus not using disposable risk capital to set up their operations?
Miners would like to continue mining and earn bitcoins. So their bills have to be paid out.
This is why miners need to sell some amount of their bitcoin when they mine. If they do not then they will have bills that they are unable to otherwise pay