hey hey 👋 Is it still worth mining BTC ?? I hear this often and my initial response has been "probably not", based on the upfront cost of the mining rigs, power consumption, staying up to date with the latest miners and generally having a decent amount of knowledge to set it all up ! However I was recently challenged again around this, in particular with reference to cloud mining. The benefits being NO upfront cost, (other than purchasing in to the pool) and NO setup required, could it be a long term passive income option?? I may have just changed my viewpoint based on the following thought experiment 😎: Projected BTC Yield Over 3 Years With a $1,000 investment yielding ~0.000055 BTC/day initially (at ~$92,000 BTC and current difficulty ~130T), total BTC mined over 1,095 days drops under realistic scenarios due to Bitcoin difficulty rising every ~2 weeks (2016 blocks). ​ Key Assumptions - Base hash rate: Fixed for your contract (no decay modeled, guaranteed uptime but difficulty erodes output).​ - Difficulty growth: Conservative 5% per 2-week epoch (historical avg ~5-10% post-2017); aggressive 10%. Network currently at 130T, projected to 149T+ in 1 year.​ - No halving impact (next ~2028); ignores fees, cloud mining cuts (~10-20%). BTC/day = initial × (initial_diff / current_diff) Potential Results ​Flat scenario (0% difficulty growth): - Avg daily BTC: 0.000055 - Total BTC mined: 0.0602 - USD value at $1M BTC: $60,200 Conservative scenario (5% growth per 2-week epoch, ~4.1x difficulty multiplier): - Avg daily BTC: 0.0000134 - Total BTC mined: 0.0147 - USD value at $1M BTC: $14,700 Aggressive scenario (10% growth per 2-week epoch, ~17.4x difficulty multiplier): - Avg daily BTC: 0.0000032 - Total BTC mined: 0.0035 - USD value at $1M BTC: $3,500 The conservative case (~0.015 BTC total) remains most realistic based on historical 5-10% epoch growth patterns, yielding 15x ROI in sats at $1M BTC despite erosion from rising network difficulty (~130T currently).

Came across this tokenised RWA (real world asset) play today. Tokenised stocks (stocks on steroids is their hook) looped for you 😎. Be aware it is a new platform, so test with small amounts and please DYOR but it could be one to watch 👍. Full breakdown and walk through will be available in the Premium section later today. Most of us treat NVDAx as a simple “synthetic stock” hold, but PiggyBank.fi lets you turn that position into a yield‑bearing asset without manually juggling leverage or farms. You deposit NVDAx into the xStocks Vault and receive pbNVDAx, a token that automatically tracks your share of an under‑the‑hood strategy using Kamino‑style lending, stablecoin borrowing, and low‑risk stablecoin farms to generate extra yield.​ Instead of trying to loop collateral yourself, the vault does it for you and auto‑compounds the returns: over time, each pbNVDAx becomes redeemable for more NVDAx than you initially deposited, assuming markets behave and the strategy performs. The trade‑off is accepting DeFi risk—liquidations if NVDAx dumps hard, smart‑contract and integration risk, plus 48–96h epoch‑based withdrawals—but in return you potentially capture a higher long‑term return on an asset you were planning to hold anyway. ​ If you’re already bullish NVDAx and comfortable with DeFi risk, PiggyBank.fi is a tool worth watching as part of a broader “yield‑on‑synthetics” stack, rather than just letting your tokens sit idle

Hey everyone 👋, Just dropped the latest Free DePin project in the classroom. Get rewarded for the internet you don't use. Grass.io lets you earn GRASS tokens by sharing unused bandwidth via a simple app—perfect low-effort diversification with step-by-step setup, realistic $5–20/month yields per device. Check it out over in the classroom 😎

Hello 😎 as promised a few days ago, I've published my results in a live spreadsheet that you can now access as premium members. I've been tracking these particular projects since January 2025, so nearly a year of data. It's just the start, with my Defi positions to follow in very soon 👍. Most of the projects have been discussed in the classroom articles, there are a few still to explain and write up. Ask any questions in the community happy to share 🙏.

Happy thanks giving guys, I really hope you get to spend some quality time with friends and family and just in case you were thinking of treating yourselves too, Tangem cold storage wallets have a Black Friday special until the 28th with an extra 20% off + $10 in BTC use code BF2025 at checkout 😉 Fun numbers game : that $10 in BTC you'd receive today would be worth about $109 in the future, if BTC reaches that $1m mark in the next 5 yrs 😁. So basically the Tangem wallet pays for itself 😝 you just need to give it time while Hodling your crypto on to it.👍