One of the best place to mine bitcoin is Thailand because it has very cheap electricity fee rate.
If you managed to success cooperate with the electricity company, you can get cheaper rate.
Although the low electricity fee is the main factor to be able mining with profit, the mining rig price is the other factor.
Your joking right?
15 cents/kwh, study the charts world-wide for power
Pray tell us,your going to walk into a Government hydro-power office in Thailand and they're going to offer you electricity lower than Venezuela? Thailand has small hydro and coal plants, nothing is cheap; Lot's of mining operations have burnt to the ground, then there is the 90-105F weather 10 months of the year, which means you need air conditioning, then there is the 9 months/year rain, which means you need de-humidifiers. Since Trump did his Tariff thing, Thailand has now 2X importation of Chinese crap,... [ Officially Bank of Thailand say's crypto is illegal, so also got the possibility of thai-prison hanging over your little head, think 'bangkok hilton' where your legs are iron rigid bar locked together your first six months, and only removed on good behavior 100% everyone gets the same service
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This reminds me of the guys growing 'hops' in bangkok, with AC greenhouses, they have to sell their hop's like 10X of market prices in order to break-even. Only works because they use their hops for their own beer, and for now can charge $12/pint as long as the 'craft beer' fad continues. [ oh, and brewing is also illegal, so if your not thai, to prison you go
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whattomine.com right now say's an s-9 antminer will net -$1/day at 0.10 kwh pricing, so that tells me that you will LOSE MORE MONEY running in Thailand.
The problem today is that BTC mining is not profitable, not anywhere; Last year it took 20 barrels of oil to generate one BTC in energy, of course that was just energy costs. But that got you say 80 barrels of USD, so the ROI was good, now we're close to parity, before it was a 4x sure thing, a wise investment, now its a zero-sum game, ... GAME OVER
I doubt the 'difficulty' will go down, people will unplug 10's of 1,000's of S-9's and other antminer equiv, but as seen as difficulty is profitable for 0.10 kwh power back on the go, it should be easy to use math to predict the correct level of difficulty given the situation of infinite cheap miners laying around, it all comes down to where is the cheapest power, somebody the other day here said 'Venezuela', but that would be silly to build infrastructure in a war-zone, during a war. BTC goes to $1500 as I assume, how much profit then? How much difficulty? How many people will run miners to lose money??
IMHO the bitcoin mining game is "GAME-OVER", unless your just fucking around, but at current difficulty its what 2 years on an s-9 to find a BTC, ... a boring game to play.
Future people will look back at the btc mining klusterfuck and say "What were they thinking burning 240 million barrels of oil? for magic numbers", ... lot like priests long ago fighting about how many angels could dance upon a needle topThe other issue with mining is that BITMAIN kept like 10:1 miners for themselves, now they'll be dumping 100's of thousand's of s9's for probably less than $100 in the coming years, think about all that capacity laying around, ... thus difficulty may never really go down, ...
If you live in a COLD year round climate, and like the sound of a jet-engine, then buy a refurb s-9, and get your free BTC every two years.