Bitcoin mining; not worth it anymore?

[Furball808]

If you only came across bitcoin this year or in recent times, you might have heard of bitcoin mining already and how people can earn bitcoin through it. But in 2026, is bitcoin mining still worth it?

With the block rewards being smaller and smaller with the complexity becoming harder with competition getting higher as well, some do not see mining worth it anymore especially if you’ll do it individually. The equipment is expensive as well as electricity costs. However, I am not discouraging you to not go into mining but maybe consider pool mining for example. It may be more worth it than mining individually. If you were planning on mining individually, it may even be a better idea if you just held bitcoin.

[Yaunfitda]

Not sure if it is not worth anymore as in the last 2 years, there are a lot of solo miners who got lucky



https://www.webopedia.com/crypto/learn/most-successful-solo-bitcoin-miners/

So I don't think that they will just stop, they can still earn a lot by solving the puzzle. It might be a long shot, but again, based on the data, it's a chance that most of them are willing to go.

[henry_of_skalitz]

Depends entirely on how much funds you have.

If you want to try and do it - you definitely can knowing fully well you may be not lucky enough. And just help the network without payment

[avp2306]

If you only came across bitcoin this year or in recent times, you might have heard of bitcoin mining already and how people can earn bitcoin through it. But in 2026, is bitcoin mining still worth it?

With the block rewards being smaller and smaller with the complexity becoming harder with competition getting higher as well, some do not see mining worth it anymore especially if you’ll do it individually. The equipment is expensive as well as electricity costs. However, I am not discouraging you to not go into mining but maybe consider pool mining for example. It may be more worth it than mining individually. If you were planning on mining individually, it may even be a better idea if you just held bitcoin.

I think for small miners which electricity cost is high I think its not worth it for them to do this thing since they might not get anything and will just provably waste their efforts then also time if they try to operate mining rigs at home.

But for institution can set up industrial mining which have lots of ways to generate energy and have those modern mining rigs, I think Bitcoin mining still profitable to them.

This article is good to read https://cointelegraph.com/research/bitcoin-mining-2025-post-halving-profitability-hashrate-and-energy-trends towards the topic you are posted here.

[freedomgo]

At this stage, Bitcoin mining is already a big boys’ game. If you’re not a large-capital player, this probably isn’t for you anymore. The days when solo miners could still make decent money are basically gone. Now it requires expensive mining rigs just to stay competitive, plus the electricity costs can easily kill your margins if you don’t have solid planning before jumping into this business.

if you want to accumulate bitcoin, i suggest you just buy and HODL.

[john_egbert]

At this stage, Bitcoin mining is already a big boys’ game. If you’re not a large-capital player, this probably isn’t for you anymore. The days when solo miners could still make decent money are basically gone. Now it requires expensive mining rigs just to stay competitive, plus the electricity costs can easily kill your margins if you don’t have solid planning before jumping into this business.

if you want to accumulate bitcoin, i suggest you just buy and HODL.

I stay by this take as well.

There is much to be done in order to gain so much to allow yourself to have your own mining operation, let own a good one, which would make profit, and profit that would cover all the costs, that is.

[Hispo]

If you only came across bitcoin this year or in recent times, you might have heard of bitcoin mining already and how people can earn bitcoin through it. But in 2026, is bitcoin mining still worth it?

With the block rewards being smaller and smaller with the complexity becoming harder with competition getting higher as well, some do not see mining worth it anymore especially if you’ll do it individually. The equipment is expensive as well as electricity costs. However, I am not discouraging you to not go into mining but maybe consider pool mining for example. It may be more worth it than mining individually. If you were planning on mining individually, it may even be a better idea if you just held bitcoin.

Bitcoin mining stopped being profitable for solo miners a long time ago, one needs to be part of a pool in order to get reliable satoshis nowadays.
That being said, I think it continues to be worth it to mine Bitcoin, otherwise there would no miners left in the network securing transactions, don't you think?

Also, you gotta keep in mind that difficulty on the network is not a fixed number which cannot be changed, is mathematically dynamic, so if many miners abandon their operations for some reason the difficulty will adapt and drop, allowing transactions to be pushed in an average time of ten minutes.

Even if miners get less bitcoin through time, the value of Bitcoin will also increase, helping miners to remain in business and protect the network from future attacks.

[Ruttoshi]

Small solo miners are only gambling if they are on the mining game because the probability of them mining a block is very low. Mining is very expensive due to the cost of electricity, especially if you are in a country with expensive electricity. Your mining equipment will be the lastest. When you put all these expensive together including overhaul cost, you will understand the risk of what you want to undergo.

It's better to join a mining farm instead of thinking to be a solo miner.

[aoluain]

But shure everyone knows you cannot just buy a random computer and start mining
Bitcoin, it has become a very specialised industry now.

Mining farms made up of very specialist mining equipment are not only earning rewards
from the Block reward, they also get rewarded with transaction fees.

At this stage its best to leave the block exploration to the specialists, it works quite well.

[Antona]

It's a professional game now. The advice about pool mining is solid if you're dead set on mining, but you need to run the numbers meticulously hardware cost, power rate, pool fees, and projected hash rate growth for 99% of people, the effort and risk far outweigh just accumulating sats directly.

[henry_of_skalitz]

But shure everyone knows you cannot just buy a random computer and start mining
Bitcoin, it has become a very specialised industry now.

Mining farms made up of very specialist mining equipment are not only earning rewards
from the Block reward, they also get rewarded with transaction fees.

At this stage its best to leave the block exploration to the specialists, it works quite well.

I would say it's rather unfortunate, but it is what it is.

Industry and the chain and BTC itself cannot be the same forever - only ideals remain the same, but to stay by them takes a bigger cost each cycle.

[Dunamisx]

If you only came across bitcoin this year or in recent times, you might have heard of bitcoin mining already and how people can earn bitcoin through it. But in 2026, is bitcoin mining still worth it?

Bitcoin mining is worth it and will remain the most relevant till after the entire 21 million bitcoin has been mined, this is possible because as the reward is being slashed by half of the previous one, the value in creasing at the same time making it a well balanced equation, there is nothing to doubt when it comes to bitcoin mining as it cannot be compared to other forms of mining.

[YellowSwap]

You all are trying to make a big deal out of Bitcoin mining, many small miners became very rich solving block via solo mining on their own, I would rather gamble on solo mining risking 100watts every day than spending money on lottery ticket.

Whatever you want, Bitcoin mining still got you covered, pool mining profitability relies on your electricity costs and solo mining relies on your electricity costs too and your tolerance on patience, spending on solo mining is one way ticket that needs to be purchased once compared to buying ticket 🎫 all the time.

It's easier for me to look away if I never solve any block via solo mining because I bought once and that's it, I won't keep losing money every week, and if you are already running a solo power in your home a 100 to 200 watts on solo mining won't cost you a dime.

[qwertyup23]

At this day and age, mining is somehow efficient when you have the designated equipment for it. Additionally, you have to strategically choose where to put your mining equipment because they generate too much heat. This is exactly the reason on why most miners tend to place their rigs where there is a relatively cool weather.

Personally, bitcoin mining individually can be a challenge given the amount of competition. However, someone posted here a chart where single miners were rewarded huge blocks that can also potentially happen to you.

If you only came across bitcoin this year or in recent times, you might have heard of bitcoin mining already and how people can earn bitcoin through it. But in 2026, is bitcoin mining still worth it?

Bitcoin mining is worth it and will remain the most relevant till after the entire 21 million bitcoin has been mined, this is possible because as the reward is being slashed by half of the previous one, the value in creasing at the same time making it a well balanced equation, there is nothing to doubt when it comes to bitcoin mining as it cannot be compared to other forms of mining.

This is exactly true but to be worth it, you have to invest into equipment that can handle the amount of computation needed. As long as there remains the supply of BTC, it will always be worth it but you have to invest tons of resources for it to be efficient and capable.

[TheUltraElite]

As the years pass on, the block rewards will get halved at every halving - that is already known to us, so what is the problem, they all entered the game with this fact already known.

Point is that the equipment to mine is costly and just one ASIC will not do, you need a farm of ASICs, PSUs and the housing to hold that, cooling to keep them running and maintenance.

But as soon as someone leaves the mining pool the reward is proportionately increased for the remaining miners, so they will be reluctant to leave so easily unless they have made good ROI.

[Rashlyowl]

No more for BTC if you are a solo miner bros, it takes high power & luck to be one of the miners who get the block reward. You also have to consider other things like electricity costs, because most likely you are not getting anything back from the electricity costs you pay. This part already dominated by big players such as Foundry USA, AntPool, ViaBTC & F2Pool.

On the local board, we recently discussed a solo miner who successfully mined block 928351. He changed BTC0.001 (hashrate rental fee) to BTC3.152 (block reward), a luck that he might not get a second time in his life.

[dkbit98]

If you only came across bitcoin this year or in recent times, you might have heard of bitcoin mining already and how people can earn bitcoin through it. But in 2026, is bitcoin mining still worth it?

You can always join some mining pool if you have asic miners, but it's not that profitable like it used to be.
Some people are even using asic miners as heating source during the winter, but they can be very noisy.
I would certainly not spend my money to buy new miners, but if you have cheap electricity you can always check mining calculators to check if this would be profitable for you.

[Faisal2202]

Not sure if it is not worth anymore as in the last 2 years, there are a lot of solo miners who got lucky

So I don't think that they will just stop, they can still earn a lot by solving the puzzle. It might be a long shot, but again, based on the data, it's a chance that most of them are willing to go.

That's good to take motivation this way but I have learned one thing that this world is too big, like sometimes we say it is too small but that's for different examples, now for this, it is too big, because, the number of solo miners got lucky are countable, same as people made 100x to 50x to 1000x from memecoins are countable and then used as examples to motivate others to invest in memecoins and they then lost all of their money.

The point is, this should not be our motivation that we can get lucky, if you want to contribute without money that's fine but if you are going to enter in this field for money then calculation is all it takes to make money otherwise luck, or assumptions are going to turn this bad for anyone.

[coolcoinz]

I've been asked this question years ago and in 2021 I've already been telling people to buy bitcoin instead of miners.
There's really no profit in buying miners over buying bitcoin, but you're taking much more risk.

First of all to buy you usually have to order from abroad and it's going to take a while before the hardware arrives.
What if it arrives damaged?
What if it malfunctions after a month or two?
What if it breaks down after a year. A year is usually not enough to break even.
What if it gets stolen?
What if your place catches fire, or loses power for a while?
This year a tree fell on my power line after a snow storm and it took the power company 2 full days to fix.

You have to be at home watching over in case something happens.
You have to deal with the fact that you're going to have hardware worth thousands of USD running 24/7, producing heat and noise.

Last but not least, in case you need money within the next 12 months, you won't be able to sell bitcoin and recoup, unless you sell hardware at a loss.

[BlackBoss_]

You can always join some mining pool if you have asic miners, but it's not that profitable like it used to be.
Some people are even using asic miners as heating source during the winter, but they can be very noisy.
I would certainly not spend my money to buy new miners, but if you have cheap electricity you can always check mining calculators to check if this would be profitable for you.

Bitcoin mining industry has rennovated many times and the mining rig efficiency become better with time, and nowadays it is no longer profitable and suitable for solo miners with very small budget and hashrates to find Bitcoin blocks or even join mining pools and get considerable shared rewards.

There are still people who try to find their lottery tickets by solo mining.
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