Should I still buy an ASIC this year?

[KovaBTC]

Hey guys,

I had this idea of getting into ASIC mining "properly" this year, so I spent some time on asicprofit plugging in a few popular models and different power costs. At first it looked okay: with very low kWh rate, the calculator shows a handful of miners still making a clear daily profit. But once I used numbers closer to what many people actually pay, a lot of those miners start to look break-even at best or flat our negative after electricity.

Now i'm stuck wondering how miners here approach this in 2026. Do you treat calculators like asicprofit as a rough filter only or do you base serious decisions on them? Are there still "safe enough" setups if you combine the right machine and cheap hosting or is this basically a game for people with very special conditions now?

If you were starting fresh today, would you still buy an ASIC and point it somewhere or just skip mining and buy the coins instead?

[FP91G]

Now is a great time to buy an ASIC. We're buying a Bitmain Antminer S23 Hyd 3U (1.16 PH) for $30,000 and making a profit of $30 per day. If you think you'll recoup your investment in 1,000 days, you're wrong. Such investments won't pay off unless the price of Bitcoin rises. Right now, buying Bitcoin is more profitable than any ASIC. Free electricity is the exception.

[Yamane_Keto]

mining need to have have a stable and affordable electricity supply, a suitable location, sufficient funds to cover electricity costs for several months, and a plan to avoid short-term sales, it's difficult to guarantee profitability and not for beginners, the calculations are more complex than relying solely on asicprofit.