Wouldn’t buying the sats be better? Especially considering the difficulty adjustment I.e. you could keep the mining but your payout is going to drop off dramatically because of it.
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Buying the sats is better in the short term, insignificant in the big picture. It's like people years ago himming and hawing about waiting for bitcoin to drop below $3000 to buy more. We're going to infinity.
First, you have to mine to break even. Then you have to mine the amount of stats that you could’ve originally just bought. You’ve to then hope that the difficulty adjustment hasn’t made the hash rate worthless to continue to mine with I.e. the cost of power is > then the value mined, which (unless you’ve got exceptional electricity rates) is unlikely. And depending on how long this process takes, there’s probably by then a cheaper more power efficient miner available.
Perhaps I’ve got this wrong lmk