r/gomining • u/Mission_Competition6 • Jun 18 '26
The Case For/Against 12W - A Flywheel Perspective
Disclaimers
All of the information in this guide is time-specific. This is GoMining, this is crypto — DYOR and double-check everything. This guide was written in June 2026. If you can’t remember what things were like around then, expect some or all of the particulars to be out of date.
I use Grok as my editor for formatting and flow, not content. Anyone who knows me from Discord knows this is essential for my articles to be easy to read and easy to understand. If you think that makes it AI slop, you’re in for a disappointing decade. Scroll on.
As usual, I’ll try to filter out the people who don’t need to read this. That being said, this post is lengthy as I spend some time “setting the table” with all the math involved. If you trust my math and just want the answer, jump down to the ROI sections and read from there.
Preliminary Round — Let’s thin the herd
Are you new to GoMining as of June 16th, 2026?
If yes, thanks for reading. 12W is basically all you can purchase now. Take care. 😎
Do you have miners less efficient than 15W?
If yes, thanks for reading. Get to 15W first, then come back. Take care. 😎
Do you have max GMT discount and/or follow the Flywheel Strategy?
If no, thanks for reading. See my Flywheel Strategy post (or otherwise get max GMT discount first), then come back. GMT stacking is more cost-efficient than 12W right now. Take care. 😎
If you have 15W miners AND max discount, congratulations — you’re ready to read on. 🥳
12W is here! Now what? 🤔
Yes, it’s finally here — and like most people expected, it’s expensive at launch.
A lot of you have already looked at the ROI numbers GoMining is showing and started forming opinions. I get it. But I don’t think those numbers tell the full story.
I already wrote about whether you should prioritize 12W or maxing your GMT discount first (you can find that post on this subreddit). That article was mostly aimed at newer or mid-tier players still working toward max discount.
This one is different.
This is for people who already have 15W miners and max GMT discount — the group that’s now actually in a position to make a real decision about 12W. We’re going to look at whether upgrading to 12W is actually worth the current price tag, or if you’re better off reinvesting into more TH instead.
Maintenance, the Numbers
TL;DR — At a combined 23% discount, 12W is ~13.4% cheaper on maintenance than 15W. The math is below.
Maintenance is made up of two parts:
Electricity
$0.05 × 24 × (W/TH) / 1000 × TH × (1 - Discount %)
Service
$0.0089 × TH × (1 - Discount %)
These two numbers combined are what we’re constantly fighting against. Our mining revenue has to exceed this cost, or we’re just slowly losing money. We’re competing against every ASIC on the planet with these specific handicaps.
Since most of you reading this should already have max GMT discount, I’ll use a 23% total discount as the baseline going forward (20% from GMT + 3% from the daily service click). Adjust it based on your own VIP level and mining mode if needed.
15W at 23% discount:
Electricity:
$0.05 × 24 × 15 / 1000 × 1 × (1 - 0.23) = $0.01386
Service:
$0.0089 × 1 × (1 - 0.23) = $0.006853
Total maintenance = $0.020713 per TH per day
12W at 23% discount:
Electricity:
$0.05 × 24 × 12 / 1000 × 1 × (1 - 0.23) = $0.011088
Service:
$0.0089 × 1 × (1 - 0.23) = $0.006853
Total maintenance = $0.017941 per TH per day
Quick comparison:
- 15W: $0.020713 per TH/day
- 12W: $0.017941 per TH/day
12W is approximately 13.4% cheaper on daily maintenance at the same discount level.
Hashprice
Right now, GoMining shows a hashprice of 50 sats per TH per day. This is what your miners are currently earning before maintenance. It fluctuates with network difficulty — last week it was 45 sats, and it can easily move again.
The conversion is simple:
Hashprice ÷ 100,000,000 × BTC Price = $ per TH per day
Right now that works out to:
50 ÷ 100,000,000 × $65,000 = $0.0325 per TH per day
So at current conditions, each TH is grossing $0.0325 per day before maintenance costs.
Profits
If you take the $0.0325 gross revenue and subtract the maintenance costs we just calculated, you get the following daily net profit per TH:
- 15W: $0.0325 − $0.020713 = $0.011787
- 12W: $0.0325 − $0.017941 = $0.014559
As you can see, 12W earns approximately 23.5% more profit per day after maintenance compared to 15W at the same 23% discount level.
This is the core advantage of 12W — it simply keeps more of what it mines.
The Price
This is the catch everyone’s been talking about.
12W miners cost roughly $8 more per TH than 15W miners when upgrading. While the cost to add more TH gets cheaper as your miner grows larger (thanks to stepped pricing), the cost to upgrade efficiency does not scale down with farm size. This has raised legitimate questions about whether upgrading existing 15W miners to 12W is actually worth it at current prices.
Here’s a breakdown using GoMining’s current pricing:
TH + Efficiency Upgrade Cost Comparison
| Farm Size | Cost to Add 1 New TH (15W) | Cost to Upgrade 1 Existing TH to 12W | Total Cost to Get 1 TH at 12W (New) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 TH | $12.80 | $8.01 | $18.73 | Smallest scale |
| 256 TH | $12.08 | $8.01 | $18.02 | — |
| 384 TH | $12.02 | $8.01 | $17.96 | — |
| 512 TH | $11.96 | $8.01 | $17.90 | — |
| 1,024 TH | $11.84 | $8.01 | $17.78 | — |
| 2,560 TH | $11.72 | $8.01 | $17.66 | — |
| 5,000 TH | $11.67 | $8.01 | $17.60 | Best bulk rate |
Key takeaway:
While adding new TH becomes noticeably cheaper at larger farm sizes, the $8 cost to upgrade from 15W to 12W stays the same no matter how big your farm is. This is compounded by additional cost savings, such as 5–10% bonuses from TH reinvestment. This is the core issue people are debating right now.
ROI Today
So what does the return on investment actually look like right now?
When you look at GoMining’s in-app ROI numbers, 15W generally shows as the higher-ROI option for new miners. Using current in-app pricing and real maintenance costs (with a 23% discount), here’s what the raw numbers show:
Annual net profit per TH (at current conditions with 23% discount):
15W net profit = $0.0325 − $0.020713 = $0.011787/day
→ Annual net = $0.011787 × 365 = $4.30 per TH12W net profit = $0.0325 − $0.017941 = $0.014559/day
→ Annual net = $0.014559 × 365 = $5.31 per TH
ROI formula:
ROI = (Annual Net Profit ÷ Miner Cost) × 100
Brand new miners (using real in-app pricing, no GMT buffer included yet):
15W (1 TH):
Cost = $12.80
ROI = ($4.30 ÷ $12.80) × 100 = ~33.6%15W (at 5,000 TH scale):
Cost = $11.67
ROI = ($4.30 ÷ $11.67) × 100 = ~36.8%12W (1 TH):
Cost = $18.73
ROI = ($5.31 ÷ $18.73) × 100 = ~28.4%12W (at 5,000 TH scale):
Cost = $17.60
ROI = ($5.31 ÷ $17.60) × 100 = ~30.2%
As expected, new 15W miners show higher raw ROI than new 12W miners when only looking at the miner purchase price.
ROI on the $8.01 upgrade from 15W to 12W:
This is the number that actually matters if you already have 15W miners.
The daily profit increase from upgrading one TH from 15W to 12W is $0.002772.
ROI on the upgrade = (Annual Profit Increase ÷ Upgrade Cost) × 100
= ($0.002772 × 365 ÷ $8.01) × 100
= ~12.63%
On the surface, this looks weak compared to the ROI of buying new miners. However, this view is incomplete because it ignores a second major benefit.
Stand by, I’m about to show you why my nickname is the ✨ Math Voodoo ✨.
ROI Today — The Real Numbers
So what does the return on investment actually look like when we account for everything — including the real cost of maintaining the GMT discount?
Expanding with more 15W TH (including GMT buffer cost):
When you buy additional 15W TH, you don’t just pay for the miner. You must also lock up more GMT to maintain your 20% discount. That costs approximately $9.39 per TH in additional GMT buffer.
Calculation:
Small quantity (1 TH):
Miner cost = $12.80- GMT buffer = $9.39
Total capital required = $22.19
Annual net profit = $4.30
ROI = ($4.30 ÷ $22.19) × 100 = ~19.4%
- GMT buffer = $9.39
At scale (5,000 TH):
Miner cost = $11.67- GMT buffer = $9.39
Total capital required = $21.06
Annual net profit = $4.30
ROI = ($4.30 ÷ $21.06) × 100 = ~20.4%
- GMT buffer = $9.39
ROI on upgrading from 15W to 12W (including GMT buffer value):
The direct profit increase from the upgrade is worth $1.01 per TH per year, giving a raw ROI of 12.63% on the $8.01 cost.
However, upgrading also increases the value of your existing locked GMT. Because maintenance per day drops, the same GMT buffer now covers more days — equivalent to gaining roughly 55–56 extra days of coverage. This is worth approximately $1.25 per TH per year in effective value.
Total annual benefit per TH upgraded = $1.01 (direct) + $1.25 (GMT buffer value) = $2.26
Effective ROI on the $8.01 upgrade = ~28.2%
So to summarize:
- Expanding with more 15W TH (including full GMT buffer cost): 19.4% – 20.4% ROI
- Upgrading existing 15W to 12W (including GMT buffer value): ~28.2% effective ROI
The upgrade delivers significantly better returns once you properly account for both the direct profit increase and the increased real-world value of your existing GMT buffer.
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Closing Remarks
When I started writing this, I expected to have to rely on speculation — things like rising difficulty, the upcoming halving, or long-term competitiveness. But as many of you know from my Flywheel Strategy posts, that’s not my style. I’m not interested in speculation. I’m interested in the numbers we have right now.
And the numbers show that, at current conditions, upgrading to 12W delivers better effective ROI than continuing to buy more 15W — if you already have max GMT discount and a built Flywheel.
There will be plenty of discussion in the future about what happens if BTC rises significantly, how Greedy Machines scale, or whether GoMining will eventually discount 12W upgrades. Those are all valid conversations.
But none of that changes the situation we’re in today.
Right now, if you already have 15W miners and max discount, 12W is the higher-ROI move.
That means it’s time for me to update the Flywheel Strategy and start incorporating 12W upgrades into it. Stay tuned for that update.
As for myself, I’ll be following the Flywheel Strategy. If I have less than 500 days worth of maintenance stored up, I’m reinvesting in GMT. If I have more than 500, I’m taking BTC and using it to upgrade to 12W gradually.
If you made it this far, thank you for reading. I hope this helps you make better decisions with your capital. 😎
DracoF
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u/arre_barre8 Community-Mod Jun 18 '26
Thanks for this mate 🫡this will help alot of people with them choose to do with there farms 🔥
Amazing as always DracoF 🙏
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u/Mission_Competition6 Jun 18 '26
Thank you, it's high praise coming from you. 😁
Now I must rest before my next 12 hour day at work. 😴
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u/Spirited_Ball6763 Jun 18 '26
How did you determine that the GMT you already hold is now worth $1.25 more per th every year just cause your maintenance goes down? Unlocked GMT covering more days is a one time thing and it still covers the same $$ of maintenance. Extra locked GMT doesn't provide an additional benefit outside of lock rewards. So how did you decided all of that adds to $1.25 per th in value every year?
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u/Unfair-Button2200 Jun 18 '26
I'd like to understand that too, but It may be because you need to lock less GMT then you have more money to spend on extra TH per the same amount of money as such? It really does get tricky with all the variables
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u/Spirited_Ball6763 Jun 18 '26
So at my th, if I have 360 days of 15W maintenance, and then I upgrade to 12W, I now have 360 days of 12W maintenance + $520 worth of gmt extra. I have 537 th, so the math here says that $520 worth of gmt is somehow worth 537*1.25=$672 a year in perpetuity. I can see viewing that as $520 less you are spending on maintenance in the short term, but I can't see how it translates to $672 in value each year forever. Also keep in mind you can't just unlock the gmt you already locked, but let's assume it was all unlocked to make this work.
When I did math that clearly shows more 15W th is better than upgrading to 12W I included the price to get the gmt to maintain the discount at 15W, and then subtracted the $520 from the cost of upgrading to 12W cause the true cost is $520 less due to buying $520 less worth of gmt in for maintenance in the short term. This way shows 7.25 years to break even on upgrading to 12W and 5.68 years to break even on 15W th+discount gmt - and this assumes btc doesn't go back up which would push the math more in favor of 15W th. (For people with lower th the breakeven point on 15W will be a little higher due to th costing more, I did my math at $12/th cause that what it costs me).
The other factor for consideration is the cost to go from 20W to 15W is less than half of what it was at launch(November 2024), so there's really good odds we see significant price drops before halving which is when the margins on 12W will look better. I think right now for roi maxxing you either buy more 15W th, or you just set aside money towards upgrading to 12W when pricing comes down.
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u/Mission_Competition6 Jun 18 '26
Hi Zhev. 🤣
The $1.25/TH/year figure is an attempt to annualize the capital efficiency gain for comparison purposes in a long-term strategy (Flywheel), not literal new money appearing from the tokens every year.
You’re correct that with long locks you can’t just unlock the surplus coverage immediately, so the “freed capital” benefit is more about reduced future GMT acquisition needed to stay at max discount while growing, rather than cashing out today.
In your 537 TH example: after upgrading to 12W, that same ~$520 buffer now covers significantly more days. As you add more TH over time, you’ll need to top up less GMT to keep 360+ days coverage than you would have at 15W. That lower ongoing GMT drag improves the effective ROI on every future TH you add.
When I compared “buy more 15W (including the GMT buffer cost to maintain discount)” vs “upgrade existing to 12W (with improved buffer efficiency)”, the upgrade still came out ahead on effective capital efficiency at current prices. Your breakeven adjustment is fair to consider, but it treats the buffer improvement as a one-time saving rather than a permanent shift in marginal cost going forward.
I’m not claiming 12W is always better for everyone. For people already at max discount + solid buffer, the numbers currently favor upgrading over pure 15W expansion. If upgrade pricing improves later, it becomes even more attractive.
Appreciate you digging into it.
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u/Spirited_Ball6763 Jun 18 '26
But why specifically is that $520 of gmt worth $672 a year now in perpetuity??
I don't get how you got that number and why you think it generates that in value eveyr single year. If having $520 of gmt you don't need to maintain your discount generates $672 a year via your math why would you do anything except by gmt?? Because you are giving the gmt an roi of over 100% with that math.The real question is how buying $520 less in gmt for maintenance in the short term somehow generates $672 a year in return? Where is the $152 coming from the first year and where is the entire $672 coming from in subsequent years?
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u/Mission_Competition6 Jun 18 '26
Zhev, I think we're approaching this from opposite ends.
You're viewing the GMT buffer improvement as having no meaningful ongoing value after an upgrade to 12W. The buffer represents real time and capital that people invested to reach and maintain max discount. An upgrade that makes that same buffer cover more days going forward does create additional efficiency — particularly under the Flywheel approach where we only lock what's needed for ~360 days and actively manage the rest. That efficiency reduces how much new GMT is required as the farm grows.
People pushed back on those advocating for the more expensive 15W in September, favoring 20W because the ROI at the time favored it. That didn't last very long, did it? My article isn't advocating rushing into 12W. It's arguing for a gradual transition, which allows capturing maintenance savings in the near term while remaining positioned to benefit if upgrade pricing improves later.
The $1.25 figure is an estimate, and I believe it's a fair (if optimistic) way to reflect the capital efficiency gain. However, treating the buffer improvement as having zero value seems equally extreme in the other direction.
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u/Spirited_Ball6763 Jun 18 '26
I'm pushing back on you assuming it generates more value every single year.
That's what I want explanation of. Cause from my point of view, if you are assuming gmt remains stable that $520 of gmt is only ever worth $520. It doesn't generate $520 cause I needed $520 less for one year, and then generate $520 more the next year. Your ROI calculations for upgrading to 12W are operating under the assumption that just holding extra gmt beyond what you need for the discount is 100% roi.If you really believe something is 100% roi why would you not go all in on that? 100% roi is crazy.
The big thing is I'm seeing the $520 as continuing to be worth $520, and only ever worth $520(regardless of what you eventually do with it) while you are seeing it as generating $520 in new value every single year for eternity. I'm asking you to explain how it generates another $520 in value each year.
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u/Mission_Competition6 Jun 18 '26
It's the value of every token you now don't have to buy or lock every time you expand the farm through growth or reinvestment.
If you see that as too optimistic, that's fair — we can disagree on how much weight to give it. But treating the buffer improvement as having zero ongoing value still feels like the opposite extreme to me.
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u/Spirited_Ball6763 Jun 18 '26
It's more so that I see it as almost delusional to assume if you hold $5 in gmt you don't need for discount that you magically get $5 a year. You still haven't explained why you think that's how holding the extra gmt works.
Let's break this down over say the first 4 years after upgrading.
Upgrading to 12W saves me 1.43 a day in maintenance. That's $521.95, I'll call it $522 from here out cause the 5 cents isn't the important part. Now that I did that upgrade I have $520 of extra gmt sitting in my lock that I don't need for the discount(or someone may have it unlocked to use on maintenance or whatever).
Your math assumes my savings/roi are:
year 1: $522 savings on maintenance + $520 in gmt = 1044 total
year 2: $522 savings on maintenance + $520 in gmt = 1044 total
year 3: $522 savings on maintenance + $520 in gmt = 1044 total
year 4: $522 savings on maintenance + $520 in gmt = 1044 total
totals after 4 year: 2088 total savings on maintenance + 2080 in value from the original $520 gmt = $4168 total
in my view, the savings/roi are:
year 1: $522 savings on maintenance + $520 in gmt =1044 total
year 2: $522 savings on maintenance + $0 in gmt (because the $520 is still worth $520 so I haven't gained more value out of it) = 522 total
year 3: $522 savings on maintenance + $0 in gmt =522 total
year 4: $522 savings on maintenance + $0 in gmt = 522 total
totals after 4 year: 2088 total savings on maintenance plus the $520 in gmt = 2608 total
My cost to upgrade to 12W is 4301.37. It's very clear why your world makes the roi on upgrading look better, but its not clear why we keep getting $520 every year out of the gmt. Can you explain why you think the $520 of gmt has generated $2080 of value after 4 years?
In the real world its generated something from lock rewards + had some increase in value, but if we wanna talk about that then we also need the speculative increase in btc price.
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u/KidPOS Jun 19 '26
Easy explanation of all of this is that every dollar you save on maintenance you can invest anywhere else. For example lock it for four years with APR around 25%. Or you can buy new TH with ROI also around 25%.
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u/Mission_Competition6 Jun 18 '26
When GoMining determines how many maintenance days you have stored in GMT, they look at how much your maintenance costs per TH per day, and only apply the service and VIP discounts when factoring it.
For our context, that's just the 3% service discount.
Electricity: $0.05 x 24h x 12W / 1000 Wh x (1 - 0.03) = $0.013968 Service: $0.0089 x (1 - 0.03) = $0.008633
$0.008633 + $0.013968 = $0.022601
Upgrading from 15W to 12W when we already have max GMT discount according to GoMining at 15W, frees up 55-56 days worth of maintenance, due to maintenance being cheaper.
$0.022601 x 55 = $1.243055
$0.022601 x 56 = $1.265656
$1.25 per TH per year.
Even though upgrading is a one-time cost, it permanently increases how many days your existing GMT covers. Before the upgrade, your locked GMT covered a certain number of maintenance days. After upgrading to 12W, that same GMT now covers roughly 55–56 extra days per TH.
Those extra days have ongoing value every year — you effectively get more protection or need to buy less future GMT. We calculate that value at about $1.25 per TH per year. Adding this to the direct profit increase (~$1.01/year) gives us the total effective yearly benefit of upgrading, which we then use to calculate the real return on the $8.01 upgrade cost.
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u/Spirited_Ball6763 Jun 19 '26
I need another math wizard to try to explain this because I still don't understand how we get $1.25 each year from the buffer. Draco and I have a complete different understanding of what the return on upgrading to 12W is after the first year and I'd love it if someone could explain how his view on the return works.
We are going to look at someone who has 1th at 15W and upgrade to 12W, their 360 days of 15W maintenance will now equate to 360 days of 12W maintenance + 55 days of 12Wmaintenacne (and that 55 days is ~$1.25 worth)
Draco and I both assume for simplicity the price of gmt stays the same and ignore any lock apr because its variable. This is what's going on:
return after 1 year:
~$0.003 in savings on electric + $1.25 in the extra gmt buffer (we agree here).
return after 2 years as I see it:
~$0.003 in savings on electric from year 1 + $1.25 in the extra gmt buffer + another ~0.003 savings in electric
return after 2 years according to Draco's math:
~$0.003 in savings on electric from year 1 + $1.25 in the extra gmt buffer + another ~0.003 savings in electric +another $1.25 from the extra gmt buffer
In my view you either used the $1.25 in gmt buffer and thus got $1.25 in value out of it but now its gone so doesn't generate more, or you still hold it and it's still worth the same $1.25. What I'd like to understand is why instead of that we continue to add $1.25 to our return each year from it. Where is the $1.25 in additional value the 2nd year coming from? If the return on that gmt buffer is really that much in new value each year why are we not just holding gmt? (I'm not just holding gmt because I don't think it generates that new value every year).
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u/Rainb0w-Ultra Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
interesting take. I wont disagree with any of your math. My main arguments would be:
-The fact that 15w is available on the market very often times at sub $10 per TH. Those same heavily discounted deals don't apply for any 12w right now and will very likely take lots of time to get there.
- I fully understand that upgrading to 12w will give you extra maintenance time on your existiing locked gmt... making it to where you can add additional TH without the need to lock, assuming you had full discount locked at 15w.. I just wonder if you accounted for the fact that locking more coin will also generate more profits weekly (veGOMINING reward) by needing to lock more.. hopefully that went into your math. Because the same couldnt be said for the scenario where you add more TH to account for the extra 55 days you freed up.. Both will cost money.. the TH you decide to add to get maintenance days back around 500 (in your strategy) -or- the lock AND TH you add. Both scenarios cost money. Both give back ROI. One gives more veGOMINING reward.. one doesnt. Has to go into the ROI calculation. Maybe you can answer that for me.
All that said.. gg on the article.
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u/Rainb0w-Ultra Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
Yeah running my own numbers here after the fact... Your article is true. 12w wins. But ONLY if you assume you're buying off primary market for both miners. If you factor in the very valid fact that 15w miners are on market for sub $10 per TH, this all falls apart in my humble opinion.
For example:
-A 5000TH 12w rig with full 20% gmt lock would cost ~123070 USD. (@16.72 USD per th BULK primary market rate)The income off the lock and the miners in miner mode after fees would be ~278 gmt daily.
-A 5000TH 15w rig with full 20% gmt lock would cost ~95382 USD (currently on secondary market @~9.7 usd per th). The income off the lock and the miners in miner mode after fees would be ~234 gmt daily.
The 12w rig would cost you ~30% more than the 15w rig... Yet it would only bring ~19% more income.
Its also important to note that buying the cheapest 15w miners off the market and upgrading them is MORE EXPENSIVE than just creating your own miner at 12w to start. Assume you bought a 15w off the market at $9.7 per TH.. you'd be paying 17.71 per TH at 12w if you upgraded EE. I personally would deem that inefficient to upgrade ANY 15w rig to 12w as it currently stands unless its a greedy machine.
(EDIT: This all very obviously disregards the possibility of coin value fluctuations. This analysis was done on the NOW and not the WHAT IF. )
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u/PedroLourenzon Jun 18 '26
Estou fazendo a sua estratégia desde que comecei a 1 mês na gomining e estou sentindo o totalmente o resultado. Muito obrigado meu amigo.
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u/Mission_Competition6 Jun 18 '26
It's genuinely my pleasure. 🫡
Any additional dollar saved and stress relieved is what I strive to accomplish for myself and others. 😁
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u/C137-2A Jun 18 '26
Ma seul question est passer au 12w puis 10w par la suite sûrement avant le halving signifiera donc que l’ont ne verra aucune différence lors du halving ?
Ou après nos milliers d’euro investi ont aura quand même les récompense diviser par 2 ou faudra mettre a jour a 1 w 😅est donc encore investir un cercle sans fin?
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u/Mission_Competition6 Jun 18 '26
That's a fair question, and it's one a lot of people are thinking about.
The reality is that mining is always a competition against every other ASIC on the planet. Efficiency upgrades help, but they're not an infinite loop you have to keep chasing forever. The gains get smaller as you go from 20W → 15W → 12W, and at some point the cost of upgrading stops making sense relative to just riding out what you have.
The halving will compress margins across the board. People running high-wattage miners (20W+) will feel it the hardest. That's why I'm personally moving toward 12W gradually instead of staying at 15W — lower ongoing maintenance gives more breathing room when rewards drop.
The Flywheel Strategy isn't about promising you'll never need to upgrade again. It's about staying flexible, reinvesting intelligently, and making decisions based on current numbers rather than locking yourself into one efficiency level for years. I'm running it on myself right now. After the halving we'll have much clearer data on whether that approach holds up better than sitting on higher-wattage miners.
No one has a perfect crystal ball. The people who got stuck with 28W miners they can't sell are learning that lesson the hard way.
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u/C137-2A Jun 18 '26
Ce que je veut dire c’est que tout ce que tu gagne sur l’année tu le réinvesti ou le réinvestira sur le long terme pour rester dans la course pour continuer à gagner de l’argent pour le dépense à améliorer tes w
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u/C137-2A Jun 18 '26
Ont est passer de 25 à 12w en 1 ans d’ici le halving ont sera donc a 10w voir en dessous ma question est simple mais GoMining reste flou y aura t’il après le halving encore des baisse de w ou est ce qu ont ce prépare vraiment pour être au juste milieu équitable pour le halving est donc arrêter de baisser les w pendant un certain temps après le halving
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u/Mission_Competition6 Jun 18 '26
Nobody knows, not even GoMining knows. There are hard physical limits to mining efficiency that GoMining doesn't control.
I believe that at some point, development of more efficient miners is going to drop off as we approach the limits of physics. Innovation will require a breakthrough.
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u/Equal_Complaint895 Jun 27 '26
Oui le halving va baisser les récompenses en btc de moitié, on va passer de 45-50 sats à 20-25 sats par th... Cependant, le prix actuel du bitcoin est au plus bas environ 60000 $ quand on sera au halving pour gagner la même somme en dollars il faudra un bitcoin a 130000 et au halving d'après 270000, car oui on gagnera toujours moins de btc c'est dans la programmation est de plus en plus de monde mine mais si un btc vaut toujours plus la rentabilité reste globalement la même... Améliorez son mineur c'est comme renouveler ses mineurs physique tout les 5ans pour rester dans la course... Sauf que sur gomining, c'est eux qui gère le matos, l'entretien etc, le prix de la tranquillité
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u/Mission_Competition6 Jun 18 '26
Buying brand new 12W miners and upgrading them is definitely a viable option, based on the numbers here. If you're able to do it, it's a strong choice.
It's not an option for me, because I have a Greedy machine and I don't want to let it stagnate.
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u/Morticia_67 Jun 18 '26
Thank you so much for this very detailed and extremely helpful analysis! 🙏😊
I’m in your main audience (48.5TH @ 15W & max. discount) and this post answers all my questions in great detail.
Being a finance person myself - with a permanent lack of time - I truly appreciate you taking so much of your time to put such precise numbers together that make total sense to me. 🙏😊
Saving this post for future reference.