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Should I buy two S19j Pro's for $3,500 USD and mine it for the next few years or just buy $3,500 worth of bitcoin (0.16 BTC) ?

My worry is that mining difficulty will keep going up and I will run out of time being profitable before I reach 0.16 BTC.

At the current difficulty of mining, it will take over 250 days to mine 0.16 BTC with two S19j Pro's (assuming electricity is free) but the difficulty will be WAY higher in the next 250 days.

FYI: I pay 0.07cents /kw so if you factor in the cost of electricity it will take 750 days to break even plus the bitcoin halving happening is 13 months.

I love the idea of mining because it allows me to dollar cost average into the market and there is no KYC involved but this math is telling me mining is dead.