Well forcing the big farms out is interesting development.
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This drop of 10% means the price of mining btc is better.
This force out could be short term and along with chip shortage miners may have 1 year of okay difficulty.
It may favor miners in a niche of 100kwatts to 500kwatts of power.
They could find ways to stay afloat. While huge farms will be crushed out or have to build a solar array and donate 10% of the power.
BTW BTC could easily create millions of kwatts of solar power for mining with the profits it makes. Donate 10% of the power to the people and it becomes a win win for everyone but the coal companies.
our diff was at a peak of 26T is now 19.9 t and will soon be 18.3T?
so 18.3/26.0 x 64000 = 45,000 and coins are 37,500 not 45,000 so we are off peak profits a bit but still bigly profits are here.
a s17 set to 55th and 2.0kwatts at 10 cent power
55 x .2466 = $13.56 earned
50 x .1000 =. 5.00 burned
profit is $8.56 daily
Please note I rounded kwatts to 50 a day which is 2.083 kwatts an hour