Hosted hashrate and buying a miner
Buying a miner means you own the ASIC. You house it, or you ship it to a host, you pay the electricity, and you handle the repairs. Hosted hashrate at Infinity Hash is a rental of SHA-256 capacity. The machine stays in the farm, and you do not own it.
Owning the ASIC
The machine is yours. You choose the model, wait for it, and give it electricity and cooling. Air cooled units are loud. Hydro cooled and immersion cooled units need a liquid loop. You pay an electricity bill for every hour it hashes. You replace fans, boards, and supplies when they fail, or you pay a host to do that and you still own the machine. An ASIC miner is that machine. The Antminer S21 XP Hyd, the Whatsminer M60, and the Antminer S19 Pro are three SHA-256 machines with a page each. If you run the miner yourself, you also choose a mining pool, so a found block is split instead of waiting on a block from your machine alone. You can sell the machine later. What a buyer will pay depends on that model.
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Renting the hashrate
You rent a number of TH. Hashrate is that number of SHA-256 attempts per second. Bitcoin mining still runs on the same kind of hardware. The electricity is handled inside the day: it is taken out of that day's mined bitcoin, and there is no separate electricity bill. That is Bitcoin mining and electricity. Maintenance, repairs, and infrastructure are in the TH price. Bitcoin mining rewards and payouts shows the bitcoin mined, the electricity taken out, and what is left. Hashrate cannot be resold. A machine you own can be sold.
A Bitcoin block, mining difficulty, and a Bitcoin halving are the network rules around either choice. They apply when the ASIC is yours and when the hashrate is rented. Free Testing is a way to see a day before you buy.
Frequently asked questions
No. Hosted hashrate is a rental of SHA-256 mining capacity. The machine stays in the farm.
No. Hashrate cannot be resold. A machine you bought yourself is a different object, and you can sell that machine.
You do, as an electricity bill, whether the machine sits at your site or at a host. With rented hashrate, the electricity comes out of that day's mined bitcoin instead.
If you own the ASIC, you do, or you pay a host. If you rent hashrate, maintenance, repairs, and infrastructure are in the TH price.
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