Back in August last year I wrote a post on BTC cloud mining, only days after having made some investments at Genesis Mining. In the comments an essential question was brought up by 
Put simply; mining is only profitable over buying coins if the invested amount rewards you more coins than what you could have purchased directly for the same investment at the initial investment time. Simple enough.
In this post I will share the results of my returns so far with Genesis Mining, including my estimate on where it could end up before the contract eventually is terminated.
A QUICK UPDATE ON HOW A GENESIS MINING BTC CONTRACT WORK
When starting the BTC contract you pay a one-time amount that grant you a certain amount of hash power. The amount of hash power is yours for a “lifetime” and determines how much BTC you can mine per day. (Along with the mining difficulty, BTC reward per block and some good old fashion luck.)
GM will also take a maintenance fee, currently at 0.00028USD per GH/s per day. This fee is deducted from your daily BTC reward, and is the reason the “lifetime contract” won’t last you a lifetime. The contract is terminated when the daily payouts is no longer sufficient to pay the maintenance fees over a period of 60 days.
THE RESULTS
Below is a graph showing the historical payouts and my estimate for future rewards. The estimate is based on the pervious history, and is becoming increasingly accurate as more data is added. At this point, having received 76% of the initially invested BTC, the estimate is fairly stable and thus equally accurate. The calculations required is a little bit more complicated than one first might assume, and I will not be going in full details at this point.
The graph is showing the following information:
The x-axis is the timeline
The y-axis is split in two scales; one for daily payouts (grey bars and dotted line), and one for the accumulated BTC (grey and yellow area graph and the blue vertical marker).
The grey bars are the actual daily payout to your BTC wallet.
The dotted line is the future estimate for daily BTC payouts.
The grey area graph is the estimate for the accumulated BTC payouts.
The yellow area graph is the actual accumulated BTC payouts so far.
The blue vertical line is indicating the break-even point for when the total earned BTC equals the initially invested BTC.
Figure 1: Graph showing the daily and accumulated BTC payouts from Genesis Mining, including the future estimates.
The predicted daily payouts are based on a linear percentage increase in BTC mining difficulty (note that it is not a linear difficulty increase). The BTC difficulty is adjusted every 2016 blocks, roughly every two weeks. The difficulty is directly related to the BTC mining rewards. Since this contract was opened the monthly average BTC rewards have been reduced by 6.93%.
If the mining difficulty continues to increase with the same average trend, there will be a 32.6% profit in BTC on this investment. Shortly after uploading the first post on this in August 2017, I started to prepare a post similar to this one. I never posted it as the interest appeared to be low. However, while making that post I made my first calculations on a predicted profit. I based my calculations on the BTC mining difficulty for a year back in time, and my estimate then was a 32% profit. Since August the auto-adjusting estimation in my spreadsheet have fluctuated from sky high, into the negative. As the amount of data points have grown, the estimate is stabilizing, and it is now interesting to see how close it is to my initial estimate.
For reference. To only break even the monthly reduction in BTC mining rewards have to increase to 16.15% from this day on. Which at this point seem highly unlikely.
The contracts in this investment was purchased at a 3% discount, and has not been boosted by any affiliate rewards.
IN CLOSING
There are several other factors that have an impact on the daily BTC reward, directly and indirectly. These can be the maintenance fee, the BTC price, transaction fees, etc. Those could be a topic for later, should there be an interest.
I am not recommending everyone to go invest in cloud mining. I’m merely showing my own results and that the potential to make a good profit is still there. Timing is an important factor in making a profit, and the hardest to predict. Make your own evaluation of the situation before making an investment.
Should you decide to invest make sure you give yourself the best odds for success. At Genesis Mining you do this by using a 3% discount code when purchasing a contract. Use a friends code, or you can use mine which is posted below. My second tip would be to purchase the contract that gives you the best price per hash power. Those would normally require a higher investment amount. If that feels too risky at the time, perhaps it is not the right time to invest in cloud mining at all. In that case investing directly into coins/tokens might be a safer option.
My 3% discount code for any Genesis Mining contract:
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Thank you for reading and the best of luck with your investments!
Regards,
warjar
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