BTC / USD$79,978
DIFFICULTY127.45 T
NETWORK912 EH/s
REWARD3.125 BTC
OUR POWERfrom $0.072/kWh
S23 HYDRO563 TH/s · 9.5 J/TH
UPTIME SLA97.0%
GRID100% HYDRO
BTC / USD$79,978
DIFFICULTY127.45 T
NETWORK912 EH/s
REWARD3.125 BTC
OUR POWERfrom $0.072/kWh
S23 HYDRO563 TH/s · 9.5 J/TH
UPTIME SLA97.0%
GRID100% HYDRO

When to buy a Bitcoin miner

Bitcoin moves in four-year cycles, and the best time to buy hardware usually looks like the worst. An honest look at payback, halvings and timing.

The best time to buy usually looks like the worst time to buy.

Read this before you judge the number above. It is the part of the business almost nobody in mining hosting will say out loud, and it is the reason we put the calculator first instead of hiding it.

Bitcoin has moved in roughly four-year cycles for its entire existence, anchored to the halving that cuts the block reward in half. That has a direct and uncomfortable consequence for anyone buying mining hardware.

When the price is high, the calculator prints a beautiful payback, hardware is expensive, everybody wants machines and the queue is long. When the price is low, the same calculator prints four years or worse, hardware is cheap, and the phone stops ringing.

History has generally been unkind to the first group and generous to the second. Your payback is not a property of the machine. It is a function of a price that has repeatedly doubled and halved. A payback that looks bad today gets rewritten by a single upcycle. A payback that looks perfect today usually means you paid a premium at the top — for hardware and for the queue.

99.3%Three-year holdsShare of historical entry points where holding Bitcoin three years ended in profit.
100%Five-year holdsNo five-year holding period in Bitcoin's record has ended at a loss.
~4 yrCycle lengthSet by the halving, which is written into the protocol — not by sentiment.
2028Next halvingBlock 1,050,000. The reward drops from 3.125 to 1.5625 BTC.
And the honest half: this is a pattern, not a promise. Past cycles do not guarantee future ones and we will not pretend otherwise. It is exactly why we show you the breakeven price before you sign, why the contract runs a year, and why the electricity tier matters more than any forecast — cheap power is the only variable in this equation you actually control.

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