So you are saying surviving that you need to have more power to have more of the rewards or the price of BTC increasing is enough?
Overall hashrate and price per bitcoin is what will determine the fate of all small miners.
Price alone won't be enough, if the hashrate doubles as well as the price you're still twice as worse as now, if the hashrate goes down 10% and the price goes up 30% again not enough, it's really hard to balance them so best way to look at it is income per th/s.
You know how much power you burn for 100th/s a day, so you start from there!
You burn 5 cents for each th/s and income per th/s is 8.12 cents (right now as per viabtc), it means that after the halving at current prices you're f**!
Since the power cost here is pretty expensive I choose to sell and market it to anyone near me but right now better wait for block halving if we see the price skyrocket to more than $80k plus why not mine a bit and later
The $75k Phil talked about was at ~ this hashrate, what happens if you wait, 80k comes but so do all the gears like the 60k riot bought, the 265k on order, or the the other dozens of exas that others have also acquired and plan on firing up?. Two aggressive increase like we had last month and suddenly you need 90k instead of 70k.
Also, we're talking about gear earnign 1$ a day that could go boom the next day....