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Topic: So miners, are you selling your mined btc as soon as you get them? (Read 3715 times)

sr. member
Activity: 542
Merit: 251
I have always held my btc's. In fact I don't think I have ever sold btc for fiat. I have always spent them on games or other mining hardware. If I had a large operation I would probably sell them immediately to pay for the electricity.
full member
Activity: 147
Merit: 100
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I was mostly keeping them, but due to constant downward trend, I only lost. I should have sold and then buy after time. Lets hope for a rise soon, then we can all earn some more!
newbie
Activity: 10
Merit: 0
At the end of last year, I've decided to give home mining a chance for a year. Currently have 2.5Th and on 01/01/16 will decide whether to carry on, depending on whether I've mined enough over the year to cover my electric.. So I'm keeping all BTC mined.
hero member
Activity: 658
Merit: 500
Holding what coins I have and  I no longer mine BTC due to the ever growing Diff and massive spikes. Id rather mine alt coins as they come out mine for a few days or a week or so and then switch off and then take the coins to exchanges and trade them up and build a nice stash of them along with making some profit on the top.

You're a legendary! You must be rich! please send me some coins bro .....
legendary
Activity: 1820
Merit: 1001
Holding what coins I have and  I no longer mine BTC due to the ever growing Diff and massive spikes. Id rather mine alt coins as they come out mine for a few days or a week or so and then switch off and then take the coins to exchanges and trade them up and build a nice stash of them along with making some profit on the top.
newbie
Activity: 28
Merit: 0
Any miner for selling??
legendary
Activity: 2296
Merit: 1031
Holding.  And regarding the picture of the industrialized rig... for all anyone knows there are hundreds of rigs setup like that subsidized and many others that get bulk rates for data centers so they fall under a cap of what they'd spend anyways. 
full member
Activity: 223
Merit: 100
Definitely holding for now, I expect long term prices to be much better than what we are seeing now and so there is no pint selling imo.
full member
Activity: 224
Merit: 100
Holding my BTC till the big boom.
my mom pays the electricity for my miner :'3

legendary
Activity: 3808
Merit: 1723
I sold on FULL MARGIN most of my coins on Bitfinex around $500 or so and whenever I mine a coin I sent it back to the exchange to cover my short.

So if BTC goes to $1, i will still be mining to buy back those coins.
full member
Activity: 478
Merit: 125
I usually hold my bitcoins until there is something I would like to purchase that is denominated in btc and at what I feel is a good exchange for my mining efforts.
hero member
Activity: 812
Merit: 1000
I think most of them are smart enough to hodl and only sell as much as they need for the expenses.
newbie
Activity: 29
Merit: 0
I'm personally keeping most of them.
full member
Activity: 182
Merit: 100
I am selling some 10% of BTC income.
hero member
Activity: 658
Merit: 500
I'm guessing most of the answers here are from home miners.

If you have something like this, you have no choice but to sell your mined BTC soon as you get them to cover electrical and cooling costs:


Perhaps thats the question he's asking "Can you big guys hold your coins for a better price and personally eat the electrical costs untill that better price, or do you have to sell them"
I don't think many miners are going to want to mine bitcoin and then not sell "until they can get a better price". If they were to do this then they would simply spend the money they would give to the electric company on buying bitcoin on an exchange
There is a reason to speculate or invest into bitcoin thro mining.... anonymity.

In many parts of the world, buying bitcoin thro exchange might expose a money trail (think Russia) that might lead to legal issue or even worse (robbery).

Another thing is "virgin coins". So some ppl might invest into mining farms, to get virgin coins (completely ..... taintless)
full member
Activity: 147
Merit: 100
www.secondstrade.com - 190% return Binary option
I'm guessing most of the answers here are from home miners.

If you have something like this, you have no choice but to sell your mined BTC soon as you get them to cover electrical and cooling costs:


Perhaps thats the question he's asking "Can you big guys hold your coins for a better price and personally eat the electrical costs untill that better price, or do you have to sell them"
I don't think many miners are going to want to mine bitcoin and then not sell "until they can get a better price". If they were to do this then they would simply spend the money they would give to the electric company on buying bitcoin on an exchange
hero member
Activity: 1666
Merit: 513
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I only sold BTC0.1 to cover a bill and that was in 2013...

I generally only use coin to buy mining hardware.

Anyone who needs to sell more than 75% of their take shouldn't mine at all.

If anything, I can pay my entire power bill out of pocket but I got free power.

I keep it this way because living arrangements can change at any moment's notice.

legendary
Activity: 1428
Merit: 1001
Okey Dokey Lokey
I'm guessing most of the answers here are from home miners.

If you have something like this, you have no choice but to sell your mined BTC soon as you get them to cover electrical and cooling costs:


Perhaps thats the question he's asking "Can you big guys hold your coins for a better price and personally eat the electrical costs untill that better price, or do you have to sell them"
hero member
Activity: 1372
Merit: 783
better everyday ♥
I'm guessing most of the answers here are from home miners.

If you have something like this, you have no choice but to sell your mined BTC soon as you get them to cover electrical and cooling costs:

legendary
Activity: 2212
Merit: 1118
Lie down. Have a cookie
I use money from my job to buy the electricity for my miners. So it is like investing, but instead buying out my coins so that I don't drop them into the market.
sr. member
Activity: 586
Merit: 251
Hold most and reinvest the rest with sites such as BTCJam.
Also have been buying some Paycoin, as Paybase say they will buy them back for $20 each and the current market price is just $4 Smiley
full member
Activity: 154
Merit: 100
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Hold...hold...hold!!!
sr. member
Activity: 481
Merit: 250
Really depends on the price, if the price is low like now, I would keep and hold.
member
Activity: 123
Merit: 10
I will hold most of them. And sell some coins at the end of month for the electric.
sr. member
Activity: 241
Merit: 250
No point of selling BTC now
hero member
Activity: 658
Merit: 500
or are you holding?


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