2026-04-01 06:31:15

I saw that 36kr's article provided the following data in the chart.

These miners who temporarily switch their mining hash power to run AI $BTC are no different from retail investors cutting losses at $BTC to buy gold and silver.
Both are chasing short-term gains and selling at the bottom, lacking independent judgment. Is the US's hash power shortage due to your mining machines? No, it's an energy issue. Nvidia's new GPUs are about to double their computing power again.
Mining machines are not the bottleneck; the generators in mining farms are what AI giants are eyeing. As everyone knows, tokens in the US are expensive; spending 1 kWh on tokens can earn you the equivalent of 10 kWh in revenue. But tokens won't stay expensive forever. Don't you find it frustrating that Minimax is leading in total token consumption? The competitors across the Pacific are pricing at only 1/15 of that, and OpenAI and others will inevitably have to adjust their prices.
So, the huge profit of earning 10 kWh from 1 kWh of electricity is just a trap, similar to DeFi mining schemes. Once suppliers are all in place and have invested heavily upfront to build generators and data centers, they will definitely go crazy with competition later.
The outcome might even be running tokens at a loss. You have to mine tokens; leaving idle equipment to depreciate to zero is not an option. Running at a loss might still recover some of the initial capital, like 7% of the cost.
Or maybe go back to mining BTC? The availability/network latency requirements for token mining are different from those for BTC. There are additional investments, such as slicing large models, parallel processing, and pipelines that require ultra-low latency and extremely high throughput between GPUs across multiple servers, with special cabling. 2C inference also needs a high-speed network environment.

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TakiBera

2026-03-30 17:27:15

I saw the data in the 36kr article, as shown in the picture.
These temporary miners who switch from mining hash power to running AI $BTC are no different from retail investors cutting losses at the bottom to buy gold and silver.
They are all chasing gains and selling off at dips, with no independent judgment. Is the US’s hash power shortage due to your mining machines? No, it’s an energy issue. Nvidia’s new GPUs are about to double their hash rate again.
Mining machines are not the bottleneck; the generators in mining farms are what AI giants are eyeing. It’s well known that tokens in the US are expensive; spending 1 kWh on tokens can earn you the equivalent of 10 kWh in profit. But tokens won’t stay expensive forever. Don’t you envy Minimax leading the total token consumption? The competitors across the Pacific are pricing at only 1/15 of that, and OpenAI and others will eventually have to adjust their prices.
So, making 10 times the profit from 1 kWh of electricity, just like DeFi mining, is a trap set for you. Once suppliers are all in place and have invested heavily in building generators and data centers, they will definitely go crazy with the profits.
The next step might even be running tokens at a loss. You have to mine somehow—letting aging equipment sit idle just results in depreciation to zero, and mining at a loss might still recover some of the initial capital.
Or maybe go back to mining BTC? Running tokens requires different availability/network latency than mining BTC. There are additional investments, such as slicing large models, parallel processing, and pipelines that need ultra-low latency and huge throughput between GPUs across multiple servers, requiring special cabling. 2C inference also needs a high-speed network environment.
These may sound trivial, but the costs of doing them are not cheap at all. After all, American infrastructure relies on private funding. If your cluster is in a remote area…
In short, I estimate that after taking a walk around, the bottom-fishing $BTC will have to mine again, mining cards will be iterated, and the old machines will lose their advantage and can no longer mine at the current cost of $BTC …

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