Industrial farms will continue to dominate global hashrate, but that doesn’t mean home mining dies. It just changes shape.
By 2028, the realistic home miner is running a small, efficient rig where power is cheap or effectively free — think waste heat capture, solar overproduction, or heavily subsidised tariffs.
Where home hash still makes sense
- Using miner heat to offset space heating costs.
- Hashing on surplus solar or micro-hydro that would otherwise be curtailed.
- Running small fleets in countries with structurally low residential tariffs.
The hobbyist miner of the next cycle looks less like a speculator and more like a tinkerer optimising an energy setup. Hashrate is just the output of a clever home-infra project.