Guess what some of my racks have in them.
fish tank bulb?
So how many people out there are like me? More concerned with what I can use more then how efficient they are. Buying 1 or 2 gens out like I do totally changes the pricing dynamic too. That is what is keeping a lot of small miners running. How much does that add to the hashrate worldwide? 1EH? More?
I have to agree to phill, I believe "we" make more than a quarter of the total hashrate, although these "free" limitations differ form a place to another, for an example, I have a small farm of 30kw, I don't pay for power there, but I pay a small amount of money in a form of rent.
So I can run about 25* S9s and that will be about 350th in total, but I don't go that route with this farm anymore, so I mix T17,S17pro,S17+, M21s and A few S9s to maximize the hashrate and to also keep the initial investment as low as possible.
In another place, I have access to a 300KW transformer, that's a lot of power so we are filling it with mainly S9s and a few more efficient gears, the reason I chose to add a few efficient gears is merely for testing what to upgrade to next year when S9s start making little to no profit even at 0 power rate, meanwhile, I am leaning towards M21s, if we could squeeze 90 of them at the right price, there will be about 5PH in that farm alone, but this won't and can't be done in a lump sum, luckily there are many people here who would want to buy those S9s at a much better price than probably any other where, so the plan is to slowly get rid of those S9s by year end or early 2021, hopefully by end of 2021 we hit the 5PH mark on that farm with 0 bitmain gears ( can't wait to divorce Bitmain)
I have a few places where I put some miners here and there, one of them is 10kw only, but I don't pay rent or anything like that so the majority are S9, and most of my clients here can be divided into 2 groups
1- small miners who use their garage or an empty room, those have access to almost free power but it's pretty limited, so they usually get mid-range efficiency gears like the 17 series.
2-larger miners who can afford to build farms and buy those expensive 11kv > 220v transformers focus on nothing but the cost per th, everything else is NOISE to them, some are still buying those m3x gears burning 2000w to get a 12th.
The second group is the "scary" one, and they are not limited to where I live, They are almost in every continent, probably Europe and North America have the smallest shares, there are in South America, Africa and plenty of them in Asia, those guys send every rational calculation someone can make to predict their mining rewards in the future to the trash because they mine outside of the game rules.
