Topic: Question Time：Mining by own machine or cloud mining, which one is better and why (Read 273 times)

After Halving Hashrate will drop. Difficulty will drop due to old miners are going away like S9s.
Cloud mining is very risky because there was so many cloud mining that has been collapsed before. Once you have physical hardware its different. You know that you own something. At least machine. Profitable or not you still own the asset. I would vote for holding physical machines in some professional facility or at home.

Let's not talk about the scam platform but let us explore the halving, after the halving, the scenario will be quite different from the present situation, cloud mining will not be profitable as it is now, even if the cloud mining is legit it will have a hard time keeping up with the plan they first offered to their subscribers, there would be a lot of changes and on the plan.

Are you promoting a cloud mining company I bet you are you are trying to convince us that cloud mining is still worth investing when in fact it is not, you can do a poll and majority of us here will vote it's not worth or even profitable to invest in cloud mining they just launch market their plan and after a few months then just vanish.

How can a user have this guarantee?
Just because you've been in business for 4 years?
Gox also was for a long time a good exchange, and since we're talking about mining, does BitClub ring a bell?

If you really want to defend cloud mining and come with arguments on how about this:
Show us how much a user would have to pay for 1th two weeks ago and what the earning are and how are they looking now!
With bitdeer you're making a cent per day with 1th, with an s17 you're in red with the electricity fee!

If a platform guarantees a return they are likely a scam, you can't guarantee mining earnings.

The scam usually comes from selling contracts and not having the physical mining equipment, they claim to have the miners but in reality they just pay you what a miner would have earned if it was mining.

As for the Y+Z > X, if the company is real they will be mining for themselves (with hashrate they haven't sold or hashrate they have allocated for themselves). But as a business, you want cashflow. Y+Z in 6 months might be greater than X, but if you sell a contract today for X you get X today without having to wait 6 months.

If the company buys $500k of  miners that will produce 10PH and they sell that 10PH for a 1 Year contract somewhere around $450k, they get another $450k they can use to buy almost another 10PH, at the end of the day almost every contract company charges you for electric either at the end of the day or included in the purchase price. So in turn they get their original capital back, get enough hashrate for themselves (or they can sell it off) and in 1 Year the equipment belongs to them and you as the customer pay for the electric. If they only mined, they would pay 500k upfront, have to wait for the mining income to come in before they can do anything else and also pay the electric bill for that mining.

Think of it like annuities, you get paid a little bit every day, would you take a slight loss in the long run to get a large payout now? And before you answer remember having cash now = you can use it now without waiting.

So here's my 2 cents;

I personaly see all cloud mining platforms as scams, or fraudelent at best.
And here is why; cloud mining platforms are business like any other, and they sell a service, which roughly translates to:
- buy a contract for X, and receive Y amount, ROI Z guaranteed.

But ask yourself, if Y+Z are more than X, as all of them promise, why sell the service at all? Why not just mine and make more than X will provide?

What if the cloud mining platform would not end the contract? Indeed many scam platform terminated their contact in 2018 and harmed many miners. But if you want to know, you will find there are still some companies that would not terminate their contract even in the bull market. Its your prejudice for all platforms.

If i want to promote PandaMiner, i will introduce our mining machine rather than asking your thoughts about cloud mining.
i just want to know how can cloud mining platforms get people's trust again?

I totally agree with your point. That is also what we are thinking about. How can a cloud mining platform make miners trust them again. What can we do? Any suggestion?

Why do i know the cloud mining is popular in China? because we are a China-based mining company. There are lots of cloud mining platforms in China now, like Bitdeer, OXBTC cloud mining, Hashnest, Hashbox, also many others that have no English names.
About "stable', i mean the cloud mining is more stable than buying crypto.

Cloud mining now needs trust, because in the past so many cloud mining have scammed investors with their hard-earned money, they deceived people that by buying hash power people can earn Bitcoin passively without doing anything, until they realized that all are just ponzi scheme and all are just lies.

And how do you know cloud mining is popular in China? Do you have any proof of it being popular there and not in the US?
It's quite ironic that the Chinese page of bitdeer, for example, si showing the prices in $ and not yuan 

Can we finally after 5 years of the constant myth of everything related to bitcoin being big in China and not somewhere else?


Oh, a tear! And another one!
The Robin Hood of bitcoin mining, the benefactors of the poor, the cloud mining companies.
Oh, how disgraceful of me to think that you're not after the poor people who can't buy miner money and you give them zero guarantees and in a case of a dump you even terminate their contract because of energy bills, how could I not see how good and helpful your business is.
You just think of fleecing a bit the ones that don't have enough money to be fleeced by others...


7.5% difficulty increase (so 7.5% revenue (not profit)) decrease for 1TH/1PH whatever your unit of measurement is and at the same time a nearly 20% drop in BTC price..
If you call that stable, how do you picture something unstable?

Was supposedly to say the same thing though.He do talks about cloud mining but it isnt really that pretty obvious that he's promoting that Pandaminer. LOL!

Going back on topic this is indeed a no brainer that if you do have the money then better to have or mine with your own machine but we know it wont really be that
cheap so a few does really have the capability. Cloud mining is never been considered as an opportunity for people to take.Why would dive into things
that you do look which isnt profitable for you?

The whole mining market is not a stable one. Cloud mining also takes part of that instability. How can you define it that it's more stable?
As i can't also get the point of how cloud mining is popular in China. Do chinese users uses platforms that we don't actually know? Just for discussion and not for promotion, can you state a list of reputable cloud mining farms in China with some proofs of credibility ?

Cloud has the worst reputation in this forum and it would be hard to build a business without enough garantes.

I dont understand, the scam platforms indeed disrupted the good development of this market. That led more and more investors choose to buy coins not cloud mining even though the cloud mining is more stable.

This one: oxbtc cloud mining: https://www.oxbtc.com/, which in under PandaMiner and has been operating for 6 years in China. Pls check and tell me what you think.

If I don't have enough money to buy machines or a place to set up I might as well buy coins that I want to mine, cloud mining scam is very rampant and at least if you are buying your own machine, you have a return of investment and you can see your investment, and you can always resell it.

If we are talking about reputation and profitability, and a cloud mining site has both of this, why not people will be in a hurry to subscribe to its plan, but a new cloud mining company would have a hard time setting up a reputation because there are so many fake cloud mining in the past that scammed investors, so can you give name of new cloud mining now, for us to check.

A real question, sir.
I just want to know users' real thoughts about cloud mining or mining with machines. Because cloud mining is so popular in China now and i would like to know more thoughts from people of worldwide. We need to know more people's thoughts. No promotion, just discussion.

I think that many scam cloud mining platform like hashflare or genesis-mining disrupted the reputation of cloud computing and led to lots of miners in 2018 lost their money then began to hate cloud mining. The industry need more legit and reliable companies to join.