Renting vs buying in the current market

With hardware prices where they are, when does renting hashrate actually beat owning the rig? Trying to build the spreadsheet and the answer keeps flipping.

Renting wins for short conviction trades on a coin. Owning wins if you have cheap power and patience.

The spreadsheet flips because the answer genuinely depends on your power price. There is no universal answer.

Renting is also a way to test a coin's mining stack before committing capital. Cheap education.

Same here honestly. solo mining LTC is a lottery where you keep the ticket price as expected value. I still buy the ticket. What's your setup?

Reading this from {place}, my seed backup plan finally moved from paper to steel this month. Sleep improved.

Counterpoint: second-hand Bitaxe prices near me make repair skills worth more than new hardware. Am I missing something obvious?

Underrated topic. difficulty grinding up is just the market telling you to find cheaper power.

Second this. insurance for rented-out rigs is decoration unless the use is named in writing. Convince me otherwise.

I moved everything to a wall meter and the difference was bigger than any chip tweak. Curious what the group thinks.

Genuine question first: second-hand KS3 prices near me make repair skills worth more than new hardware. Curious what the group thinks.

Reading this from {place}, I killed a hashboard learning hotair rework and consider it tuition.