For the ones who have higher electricity costs, do they sell their rigs, even if at a loss?
I'd be willing to take on mining equipment and run it and split profit with rig owner, minus electricity costs. Is there a service already out there like this? To house mining rigs (not buy and own them) and split any profits with rig owner?
I know there would be some logistics involved, i.e. getting equipment to new location and getting it set up.
I think you want to offer cloud mining service if I understand you correctly.
Is that what you would consider it?
I remember looking at genesis (I think) years ago and you basically paid a set fee say $5,000 a year for say 1Gh of eth or sha256 or whatever algo, and you kept all the profit minus a maintenance fee, but you never owned the mining equipment.
I guess it's similar except rig owner doesn't have to spend any money nor the person taking on the rigs to run them. Instead of owner's rig sitting idle or them selling at a loss, they ship it to cheaper electricity place and still make money daily (while the prices support it). Any daily profits are split, minus power costs.
So if 1 Gh of ethash is making $46-$50 a day, then take out power costs and split profit. Or some type of split. Maybe owner/runner split 50/50 and it's on the runner to pay all power costs.
Interesting idea but I don't think it's a good business model.
First, on the short term it's more appealing to sell your gears instead of shipping it to let another operators run them under a cheaper electricity cost. Also, it's pretty similar to cloud mining that idea, and in crypto mining field, cloud mining is probably where you find the most scams!
For instance, you cannot run your mining rigs anymore because of your high electricity cost so you send me your hardwares. When I receive them I switch your GPUs for cheaper one and pretend that the profit is not what we were expected.
Also to control the electricity cost, it would be sooo easy to scam people like that. First to have the correct kW/h unit cost for a specific region is hard and then the real power consumption if even harder to certify.
I see too much trust issues here.
I agree, trust is involved but some things are what they are. Some things could be mitigated. I give you pool and your rig worker ID.
I know my rig should get 1 Gh. When I look at the pool and my worker ID, if it's not where it's supposed to be, then you can't lie about that.
and profit is profit, if I know it gets 1 Gh and profit should be $50 a day but you tell me it only made $25, then yeah, we have issues.
You're right, a lot of moving parts...trust being a big thing.
Maybe a better model would be for current rig owner to sell rig to runner. Runner pays half down and spreads the other half down via daily/weekly/monthly earnings of what the rig is making until rig is paid in full.