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Re:Bitcoin Hash Rate Rapidly Growing Despite Price by vkou on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:47PM (#17525643)
If you're spending $1 of electricity to mine $1 of coins, why not just spend $1 to buy the coins outright?
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Re:Bitcoin Hash Rate Rapidly Growing Despite Price by gomox on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:19PM (#17526342)
Freshly mined coins have a premium because they are clean (i.e. you are 100% sure they haven't been robbed before, which can create problems) and untraceable (i.e. there's no way to link them to the original assets used to purchase the miners).

Other than that, a person might not have access to the equivalent volume of BTC but have easy access to energy/miners. Additionally, depending on how you predict hash rate and BTC price to evolve, mining might have a better ROI.

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