Topic: So who drops out at the halving? (Read 2724 times)

Sound correct, most home miner mine at solo pools, because its still advantageous and less management. You also get monitoring capability with the accepted share rate. With the truly solo lottery kind of blocks found, i think we're looking at less than 1 per 10 000 blocks.

Difficult to tell.

Large pools like Antpool and F2Pool have plenty of users who are home miners, but that can't easily be divined.
Solo pools might seem like they'd be a good indication, but then there's people renting hash rate from a large hash rental provider and pointing that at the solo pool, so that's no good either.
Unidentified mining addresses might be another, e.g. 1MFsp2tx, but as they've had 5 blocks in the past month, that's a pretty high hash rate 'home' miner and more likely just an as of yet unidentified pool or business.
1KVcqebR only has one mined block (mid-August) apparently off of a ConiumumServ pool server.  Can't know for sure, but that could be a home miner.
1jKSjMLn "/mined by ck/" ought to be a 'home' miner

So in terms of "Any?" we know that there are at least some.  But how many, exactly, your guess is as good as mine.

How many blocks have been found by home miners in the last year?  Any?

I am in a different position because we own our data-center and are situated in the cheapest power location on the planet.  Our math is a little more forgiving but we will continue to hosting the most efficient hardware as possible.  What I see is another way on consolidation leading up too and after the consolidation.

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so you plan to drop the game with the next halving? i know you have 100tera or something, dunno if it is made of s5 or s7, if the first, you can maybe sell those and buy the new s7 and remain in the game for a longer time

I think the S5 will remain online for people and datacenters that pays 2-3cent/kWh, but other than that, even the S7 at that point might become soso if any hardware from all the concurring companies will produce, for most home miners.

The mining process is set in stone and mining does not "create" inflation, it is essential to process transactions.   Once the halving happens, it will push out inefficient miners.  I would assume anything over 1Gh.s per watt will go away if not already.

That is a insane amount I can see why it would not work.   Anywhere else selling a S4 and C1 for 1300 would have been a grand slam.

You might look into hosting centers in the future.    It would be much much cheaper on import tax.  Although it will not help on usd to Australian dollar.

Pus about $300 import tax

Ouch

I'm not even sure what you would want to do with it. It kind of sound like a gimmick machine, it doesn't do anything special, is expensive and its performance is most likely as limited as how vaguely they talk about their own product.

Basically, what do you even want to do with that?

I'm out of mining for the moment but intend to buy a 21 bitcoin computer to see what they have to offer...

I think there are some possibilities there worth exploring...

I can say i just sold my S4 & C1 miners for US$1300 which is about what i paid for them both including delivery (After using coupons) So i broke even on them. I had a lot of fun over the last 12 months with them...

Couldnt really justify the S7 with the current Australian dollar... Its $2700 australian delivered... A little too much...

Ill sit tight with the coin i got, See what 21 has to offer & if someone else comes up with a better miner cheaper i might use some coins to buy back in..

Good luck to u all

I agree.

I also agree with the people who say that there are too many variables. When looking that far ahead, at best you can stay as informed as possible by keeping up with bitcoin news, world finance news and by using your "gut" feeling.

I believe too that the hash rate will have steep jumps in the next few months. My spreadsheet estimate is 9.5% per month as an average.

Bitcoin value will not double after halving, there are too many coins owned by such a very few people that they will likely cause a strong downward pressure on the price. Home miners will slowly and permanently drop out of the market as no new technology gets released to them long term and more centralization will occur. Satoshi knew this and wrote about it on a mailing list in 2009.

"At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the
network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to
specialists with server farms of specialized hardware."

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09964.html

At this point in time, my plan is to keep my S7's permanently and keep them turned on until they die. That plan may very likely change, but at this time I think that if I am unable to afford the newest miners in the future or they become unavailable to the end user. I want to be mining, for as long as I can purely because I believe in Bitcoin and believe that one day our children, and grandchildren would shake their heads at the thought that we didn't run our miners because it was "unprofitable". Because as coins get lost forever and the utility of Bitcoin increases, so will the price and just being able to have 1 coin at that time would be amazing.

I am in this for the coins. When the day comes that Bitcoin value is everything people wished it to be, I want to have a tonne of them.

If or when the day comes where we enter an unprecedented global depression, I know what I want to be holding in my hand when people finally lose faith in the Federal Reserve and the system of toxic greed that is misplaced corporate power, and the politicians paid for by them.

Certainly not a piece of paper saying I "own" the rights to possibly imaginary gold locked away somewhere I will never see.

I want my Bitcoin wallets, and anonymity.

I would actually like this to be the case, but a funny thought would be that all those big farms breaking down and leaving difficulty through the roof and untouchable by basement miners.

The only thing is normally these big farms do not order a bunch of used gear.  Normally they order direct from manufacture, they will get a good discount when buying a data center worth.

I still plan on mining after halving.  Just lots of variables we don't know that I need to know before deciding how big twords then.

That means that the price of such hardware will be really low. This will maybe even increase the power of the big China farms which have dirt cheap electricity and which will buy cheap S5. And thus the centralization of the hashes will continue  .

In order to decide whether to invest in BTC or not, one must disregard the BTC price.Why?If BTC price will increase and mining will be appealing again why don't you just invest in BTC?

Home mining will end in a near future, predictable time will be arounf halving.

Will I quit mining? No.

Why? Scale economics.

I already dropped out the mining game early 2014. If prices go back up at the block reward half and its a good enough price to sustain mining I might get back into it. IF prices stay where they are then a lot of company's are going to be out of business and closing shop as some are already doing so. July 2016 is the time of next block half so we got plenty of time till that happens but sure is going to be interesting to see what becomes of price and also mining equipment.

readingfrom whats people wrote aove, might be better to drops out for awhile

I'm dropping out of mining in the next month entirely. Will be running a full node for as long as I'm able.

I plan to keep mining into the halving and beyond.