Green Bay, Wisconsin · Est. 1996
Bitcoin is trading near $64,000 — roughly 50% below its 2025 peak as of August 13, 2026. Hashprice is compressed. Many operators are selling hardware or shutting down. This is exactly when disciplined miners add capacity.
Disciplined operators act when conditions feel hardest
New and used S21-class and newer machines are available at substantially lower cost per terahash than during the last run-up. Buying hashrate when demand is weak lowers your capital cost for years of production.
Operators with high power costs or leveraged balance sheets are liquidating machines. This creates a buyer’s market for efficient hardware that still has multiple years of useful life.
When price pressure forces inefficient machines offline, difficulty adjusts downward. Your new hashrate comes online into a less competitive environment than during a full bull-market arms race.
The real goal of mining is acquiring Bitcoin as cheaply and consistently as possible. Hardware purchased at bear-market prices improves the all-in cost of every coin you produce.
The next Bitcoin halving is expected in 2028. Miners who control efficient hashrate heading into the next expansion phase historically capture outsized rewards. Waiting until sentiment turns means paying higher prices.
Long-term power contracts, rack space, and facility capacity are easier to lock in during quieter periods. Operators with reliable low-cost power can scale more aggressively than those scrambling later.
Most participants expand only when it feels comfortable. The operators who treat mining as a long-term industrial business act when conditions feel hardest. That discipline compounds over multiple cycles.
This is not a recommendation to buy every machine available
Still the dominant variable. Ideally under $0.08–$0.10/kWh for current-generation machines.
Only modern efficient hardware (preferably under 15–17 J/TH) makes sense in this environment.
Over-leveraging into a prolonged downturn is dangerous. Expand only with dry powder.
Cooling, monitoring, and remote hands capacity must scale with the fleet.
Running additional machines at home or in temporary spaces usually creates more problems than it solves — heat, noise, residential power limits, and downtime all erode the advantage of cheaper hardware.
At Netsonic we host ASIC miners in our own Green Bay datacenter at industrial power rates as low as $0.075/kWh. You keep full ownership and all mined coins. We handle power, cooling, uptime, and on-site support.
The current bear market is compressing hardware prices, forcing inefficient hashrate offline, and creating the conditions for a lower cost basis on future Bitcoin production.
Miners with low-cost power, operational discipline, and available capital are quietly increasing capacity. Those who wait for “clarity” will pay more for the same machines when the cycle turns.
In mining — as in Bitcoin itself — the best time to build is usually when it feels hardest to do so.
Tell us what you have (or plan to buy) and we’ll confirm availability, power allocation, and pricing.
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This page is for informational purposes and does not constitute financial advice. Mining involves risk. Power cost, hardware efficiency, and operational discipline remain the primary drivers of profitability.
