You have at least 2 problems working against you mining bitcoin
Electricity cost
https://blog.cesco.com/blog/bitcoin-mining-costs-per-state
Note the current electricity costs. In some states bitcoin miners are already losing money according to the chart.
But wait, there's more.
Those are commercial costs for commercial customers. You and I don't get that.
Example - Florida - your cost is 10 cents a KWH, but the business miner only pays 5 cents a KWH
So a person without a commercial rate pays twice what the chart says.
But wait, there's more.
Bitcoin mining machines are computers.
Computers are made of chips.
Chips are just fancy heaters. Electricity in. Heat out.
For every kilowatt hour burned, it takes AT LEAST 1 KHW to cool the computer.
That is not counting the solar gain from the sun cooking the building
The cooling costs are not included in calculations. Read the article. Those engineers merely multiplied a few numbers to get the costs from mining due to power consumption. THEY NEGLECTED COOLING AND BUILDING LOSSES (cooling is never 100% efficient. It might take 1.5 to 2.0 or more KHW to cool 1 KWH of power.
So the entire calculations are scams. The bitcoin "world" is a scam.
96% of bitcoins are owned by 4% of the addresses.
It isn't a whale. It is a MONOPOLY. Controlled and manipulated.
It was never about the few hundred billion in bitcoins.
It was about the CASINO or futures, ETF's, Options and other ways to BET ON the coins.
Those owners can extract TRILLIONS in the next few years by controlling the casino and letting the rubes place bets thinking they are "investing".
Of course they are. Just like they invest at the Luxor Casino in Vegas.
Now you understand the Mysterious Secrets of Bitcoin™.
Best regards,
The Eye