Subnostr

No. If you have a 5KW ASIC that makes no heat and one that does, the cool one HAS to be almost 100% more efficient. That energy needs to go somewhere.

So you either increase the hashrate drastically, or bring energy usage down drastically.

If that energy is coming in, it needs to come out. If not in the form of heat, then in the form of hash.

marcan0 2y ago

I fully agree with you. Superconductor miners would definitely produce more hashes than their counterparts.

My "concern" (if you can even call it that) is simply economics of energy markets. The price per kw/h depends largely on where you mine.

Home mining typically isn't the most profitable, but you can justify it today if you use the heat your ASIC produces productively. Like heating your house, pool, or something else you would have been paying to heat anyways.

Without heat as a byproduct, miners who co-locate to cheaper energy sources are simply more profitable. The incentives shift further away from mining at home.

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ĐaꝞꭵꞧuꞩ.₿ 🟠 2y ago

You are right, but if you look at you % of the total market hash, you can keep your ratio spending way less and that might still make it profitable. Really depends on price and availability of the super ASICS more than the energy price.