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Difficulty Adjusted
Field notes from a hosted Bitcoin mining operation. Monthly close, tax mechanics, and the math behind treating mining as a tax-advantaged bitcoin accumulation strategy.
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Last Notes npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted my day job pays me for hours. the machines pay me for uptime, and they do not care whether i am awake. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted the thing that makes these pencil is that you are not comparing them to a hosted rack. you are comparing them to whatever you were already going to burn to heat that room. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted same question runs through mining and it has a cleaner answer there. when you rent compute you are buying an output at a price the seller sets, and the seller knows what that output is worth before you do. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted data point from the very bottom of that curve. i have been posting here since may. 46 notes, one zap. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted a block mined on july 7 left 0.00342 bitcoin unclaimed. permanently. the coinbase was underpaid and those sats do not exist. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted same shape as tuning a miner. a whole saturday chasing a few percent, and in my experience the newer the machine the less headroom there is left to find. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted build 1 of 40 is the part that gets me. that is a production run, not a one-off gag. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted the earning side has the same hole. i mine, so sats land daily without me ever buying any, and i still settle my hosting invoice in dollars because that is the unit it is written in. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted i run three hosted machines and have never once touched any of them. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted a question worth asking a host before you compare anyone on kwh: npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted thursday the network printed ~790 exahash. saturday it printed ~1,040. nobody built and racked 250 EH of machines over a weekend, that's dice, not a trend. trailing average is ~930, and the retarget landing tonight is estimating basically flat, about -0.7%, not the +8% making the rounds. check the window progress before you repost a number. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted new genre of bitcoin product: loans that exist so you never have to sell. people will pay double digit interest before they'll part with sats. no notes, honestly. same npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted new read up. the loudest agent-payment rail runs on stablecoins and big volume numbers. the bitcoin-side rail spent the week shipping crash-safety for ecash payments instead of press releases. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted everyone i follow has a july 29 take. my miners do not know what a fed funds rate is. they hash at 3am either way. still the healthiest macro framework i've found npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted the difficulty adjustment is the only deadline i've ever known that has never slipped once. every 2,016 blocks. no extensions, no committee, no press release. closest thing to a law of physics money has ever had npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted one of my rigs started its kill clock in june: two negative closes in a row and it comes off the rack. it printed its worst month yet and i spent a week wanting to pull it early. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted my mining edge inverted in june. hosting ÷ coins mined came out to $64,266 against a market that averaged about $63k. first month since i started publishing that mining cost me more than buying. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsdhpa3a0eukhqrfz3k50v5amxjlvfgxkd57wue6jkemc9zm8s6srsx2dg39 😆 npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted Solid 🤌! I’ll have to check out the custom models too. Thx npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted Nice. What are the current models for autoclaw? npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted mining quietly made me a non-seller. the sats just show up, no red-candle decision to fumble. easy mode for the weak-handed, honestly 😅 npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted the official currency of conviction is a $1 box of noodles. been there npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted 🤣 🪦 npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted wild sats hit different when they're mined. nobody sold them to me. they land at an address i control straight from the pool, newly issued, no counterparty anywhere in their history. costs me more than clicking buy does this week, and that's exactly the part i'm paying for. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted I can only laugh when bitcoin falls like this. It reminds me how crazy I am to be in so deep 🤙 npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted The financing engine everyone said couldn't break is creaking. Worth watching closely, not gloating about. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted the live number is higher than that. network hashrate is ~940 EH/s right now, near record, not 226. that's the real efficiency story: hashrate sitting near all-time highs while price is at $64k means the survivors run newer machines on cheaper power. difficulty still cut ~10% on june 13 because the marginal high-cost miners got squeezed out. efficient hashrate replaced inefficient hashrate. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted compression of competition is exactly the yield, just measured in the right unit. fewer machines splitting the same block reward means more sats per machine for whoever stayed. ~15% more bitcoin per rig than january on my fleet, same hardware, zero extra spend. 'passive accumulation tied to consolidation' is the whole trade. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted the hashrate leaving the network this year isn't all coming back, the public miners are gone to AI for good.[email protected] /-RVoBWg6Ds1eOBQ35zULP npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted This has me reconsidering my Good Ranchers sub 🤤 npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted in ~6 days the network looks set to drop difficulty around 10%. biggest downward adjustment in a while, and it tracks, bitcoin near $63k pushed the marginal miners offline. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted this is the whole public-miner trade now, raise converts, point the megawatts at AI/HPC, stop optimizing for block reward. for a small hosted operator it cuts both ways: less competition for actual hashrate, more competition for power and rack space. the industry is quietly splitting into energy companies and people who still mine bitcoin. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted the part that usually gets skipped: the small hosted operator doesn't need the stranded-energy thesis to pencil. what the AI buildout does to me right now isn't hand me cheap power later — it bids up hosting capacity and current-gen ASICs today. "miner soaks up excess energy" is real at gigawatt scale. at my scale it's the opposite pressure: i'm competing with data centers for the same rack. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted I understand you get more reach on X, but glad to have you here building on Nostr. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted new read up — and this one's the "start here." npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted Two takes on Saylor's little bitcoin sale going around right now. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted new read up. "mining at a loss" is an existential problem for leveraged industrial miners. for a small operator stacking below spot, it's closer to the design. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted i "lost" $78 mining bitcoin last month. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted New piece up: how I finance hosted mining rigs at a 0% cost of capital. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted Mining at a loss is fine if you do the paperwork. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted It was bound to happen…Plaid connectors in Perplexity, platforms like CFO Sylvia, etc. Not long before folks offload their finances and portfolio management to agents 😬🍿 npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted GM we outchea grinding, PV 🤙 npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted Hell yeah! 💪 npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted https://difficultyadjusted.substack.com/ npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted That all makes sense. Discovering content without an algorithm serving it up is interesting and refreshing. I can sense how it can feel like an echo chamber at times. But I’m here for it npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted > Appreciate you, this is helpful context. I’m definitely feeling that “empty room” effect right now and the discovery part has been the hardest so far. Good to hear it’s already improved over the past year though npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted I'm new to nostr and interested to know why some users left. I'll check out wisp too npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted The mistake I made for most of last year: treating my mining LLC as one business and asking "should I add a rig?" npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted Bitcoin mining works at thin margins as long as financing is cheap. A rig that nets $5/day after hosting can't survive 7% APR equipment financing. The same rig on 0% APR for 14 months is a different business. npub1u8pccvvymkyn3s3lfc2647wzv977extva02a433lsvqk2nle762q7gzekm difficultyadjusted Difficulty Adjusted is field notes from a small hosted Bitcoin mining operation. Monthly close, tax mechanics, and the math behind treating mining as a tax-advantaged accumulation strategy.
