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Hashrate can rise while margins tighten — both can be true

Each halving cuts the subsidy per block. If price and fees don’t compensate, the marginal operator exits. Meanwhile, efficient fleets add machines. The result is often more hashrate and fewer players — consolidation, not contradiction.

Mining

Break-even is a distribution, not a single number

Power contracts, ASIC generation, cooling, and uptime vary wildly. Public miners disclose averages; your uncle’s hosting deal is different. Model ranges, not spurious precision.

Fees as the swing factor

As subsidies shrink, fee revenue matters more during congestion. Ordinals/Runes-style demand can change fee markets — which helps miners but annoys users bidding for blockspace.

Pool concentration

See pool share analysis for why “decentralisation” debates often hinge on how you count hashrate attribution.

Mining equities ≠ spot BTC. Different leverage, different risks.
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