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tried to figure out if mining bitcoin actually beats just buying it with the same money Kept seeing people call mining "free bitcoin," so I actually sat down and compared it against just buying the same dollar amount of BTC and holding. The thing nobody says up front: with mining you're making a bet on two things at once — the price of bitcoin AND your cost of electricity. Buying and holding is only the first bet. A few things that surprised me: - The machine is a depreciating asset. A miner that's competitive today is mediocre in ~2 years as difficulty climbs and more efficient units ship. The BTC you'd have just bought doesn't age. - Your electricity rate decides almost everything. At a high home rate the math falls apart fast — the people it works for usually have cheap power or host somewhere that does.