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Doing nothing is the biggest risk.

There is a kind of risk that never shows up on a price chart. It is the risk of inactivity.

Most people treat holding Bitcoin and collecting a paycheck as the safe, default path.

No decisions, no moving parts, nothing to manage.

Two costs run quietly in the background the entire time you do nothing.

• Your income is taxed at full freight every year.

• Your Bitcoin, the best collateral ever created, sits idle and doesn’t function as working capital

If you earn a high income in the United States, your largest lifetime expense is tax. Not your house. Not your lifestyle. Tax. And for most high earners, it is the one expense they never actively manage.

Here is what a $250,000 single filer pays in combined federal and state income tax, mapped across the country:

A $250,000 earner pays $57,063 in federal income tax. Add state income tax and the bill climbs:

• Oregon: $80,000

• California: $77,000

• Hawaii & Minnesota: $76,000

• Maine: $74,000

• New York, Montana, South Carolina: $72,000

During a lifetime, the cost (and opportunity cost) compounds significantly.

Over a 30-Year Career a $250k per year earner will pay ~$1.7 million in Federal Income Tax. If the tax bill were instead re-directed into an asset with a 20% CAGR, that would accrue to ~$67 million over the 30-year period.

$67 million. That is your opportunity cost.

Few assets compound at 20% per year consistently. Bitcoin is one of the few.

According to research from Strive ( ), the 10th percentile of Bitcoin 4-Year CAGRs is 27%. In other words, if you pick any random 4 year stretch in Bitcoin’s history, 90% of them will have a CAGR of 27% or higher.

Now, unfortunately, you cannot forgo income tax to directly buy Bitcoin. However…

…Under Section 168(k), 100% bonus depreciation lets you deduct the entire cost of Bitcoin Mining equipment in a single tax year. The deduction is worth your marginal tax rate in cash, so the higher your bracket, the more it puts back in your pocket.

Consider a bundled mining package:

• $41,067 of hardware (9 Antminer S21 XPs)

• $23,430 of electricity (1 full year of power prepaid at $0.072 per kilowatt hour)

The package costs roughly $62,000, all of which can be deducted against active income. At the 28% combined rate in our model, the deduction returns $17,466 this year. For a top-bracket earner in California or New York, it approaches $31,000.

So before the machines mine a single Bitcoin, you have already turned a slice of your largest annual expense into Bitcoin-producing assets.

Let’s model how this hypothetical mining operation would perform on a 4-year time horizon. Here are our (conservative) assumptions:

• Bitcoin compounds at 20% a year.

• Network difficulty rises 10% a year.

The April 2028 halving cuts the block reward. Each year’s power bill is added to the loan rather than paid out of pocket, and every Bitcoin the machines mine is held, not sold. The Year 1 tax refund, roughly $17,500 at a 28% rate, is reinvested into Bitcoin in Year 2, which is the step up you see in the green line.

By the end of Year 4, the machines have produced about 1.14 BTC on top of your original stack. The 2 BTC of collateral is worth roughly $288,000. The loan sits near $178,000. And the part that matters most for safety: if you post the mined Bitcoin back as collateral, your loan-to-value ratio falls to around 39%, below where you started, even though the loan balance grew along the way.

Watch the two forces separate. Your collateral compounds at Bitcoin’s rate, near 20% a year. Your loan grows at 9.99% plus the power you fold into it, closer to 10%. Because the asset climbs faster than the liability, the space between them, which is your equity, widens every year. That is the whole idea in one line: the collateral compounds against the liability.

Do nothing, and four years out you hold 2 BTC worth about $288,000. You also wrote a large check to the government every one of those years, with nothing to show against it.

Give your Bitcoin a second job, and you are ahead from the first year. You still hold the original 2 BTC. On top of it you hold the roughly 1.14 BTC the machines produced, the Bitcoin bought with your Year 1 tax refund, and the mining hardware itself. The Bitcoin alone is worth about $481,000 by Year 4 against a loan near $178,000. Counting every asset against the loan, you beat simply holding your 2 BTC in every single year, from about $9,000 ahead in Year 1 to roughly $23,500 by Year 4. And you never sold a single coin.

Here is the key insight. The price risk on your 2 BTC is the same in both paths. You carry the exact same Bitcoin exposure either way. The only question is whether that exposure sits idle and fully taxed, or whether it works alongside production, depreciation, and a positive spread between a 20% asset and a 10% loan.

Not financial or tax advice. 100% bonus depreciation under IRC Section 168(k) is current US law; consult your CPA. All figures are estimates based on the stated assumptions and a starting BTC price of $69,350.

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Three times in the past four years, a single on-chain metric has rejected Bitcoin. And every single time, it was followed by roughly two months of consolidation before the next major leg higher.

It just happened again in May 2026.

The level is called the Short-Term Holder Realized Price. It is the average cost basis of every Bitcoin buyer from the past 155 days. This is not a technical indicator or a moving average. It is pulled directly from Bitcoin’s transparent, publicly verifiable blockchain, across millions of transactions and wallet addresses.

The reason it works as resistance comes down to basic human psychology. Short-term holders are momentum and sentiment driven. They buy on upswings, they sell on downswings, and when the price finally recovers back to their break-even level, the overwhelming majority of them take their money off the table. This behavior shows up on the blockchain every single time.

Here is how it has played out historically:

November 2022 — Bitcoin was rejected at the STH realized price, dropped from $20,000 to around $16,000, and consolidated there for two months. That was the starting point for what became one of the best bull markets in Bitcoin’s history, with BTC going up over 100% in back-to-back years.

August 2024 — Bitcoin looked like it was going to break through but failed. Two months of choppy consolidation followed before BTC ran from roughly $50,000 to $100,000 in just three months.

February 2025 — Same dynamic. Failed breakout, two months of consolidation, then all-time highs shortly after.

May 2026 — The breakout failed again. If this pattern continues, and it has held every single time over the past four years, we are probably looking at continued consolidation until around mid-July before the next leg up begins.

How Profitable is Bitcoin Mining Actually?

Head of Blockware Intelligence, Mitchell Askew, joined Mitch Moore on the Strong Wealth Podcast to discuss all of the dynamic variables that impact Bitcoin Mining Profitability:

BTC Price, Mining Difficulty, Machine Types, Power Rates, Artificial Intelligence, and more!

For a masterclass in all things Bitcoin Mining, check this out:

If you’re interested in learning more about how Bitcoin Mining (and the associated tax benefits) can apply to your specific situation, sign up for a free consultation with a member of the Blockware team: https://www.blockwaresolutions.com/info/

Short Term Holder Spent Output Profit Ratio (SOPR)

This metric looks at the price at which short term holders are moving BTC relative to their cost basis.

SOPR < 1 (red) = moving coins at a loss

SOPR > 1 (green) = moving coins at a gain

We’re seeing this capitulation-at-cost-basis through this metric — short-term holders are now selling coins at a loss in the aggregate. This indicates that some supply overhead is at play; which will potentially cause BTC to consolidate for another 2 months.

While short-term holders are selling at their cost basis and keeping a lid on price, long-term holders have quietly accumulated a record high of nearly 15 million Bitcoin. Long-term holders are defined as anyone who has held their Bitcoin for at least five months. These are not momentum chasers. They have sat through drawdowns, through capitulation events, through months of sideways price action, and they have not sold.

That divergence between the two groups tells you a lot about what comes after the consolidation.

Short term: Sideways to down

Medium term: Breakout into next bull run

Coin Days Destroyed: Old Coins Are Not Moving

Coin Days Destroyed is one of the more nuanced on-chain metrics available. Unlike simple transaction volume, CDD weights each Bitcoin by how long it was held before being moved. One Bitcoin held for 1,000 days and then transferred destroys 1,000 coin days. One Bitcoin bought yesterday and moved destroys just one.

This is useful because it tells us not just how much Bitcoin is moving, but who is moving it.

Big spikes in CDD can happen for two reasons. The first is a large capitulatory event where a lot of Bitcoin, including older coins, gets moved all at once. That is actually what happened earlier in this cycle when Bitcoin dropped from around $120,000 down to $80,000 and ultimately to $60,000. A brief, sharp spike in CDD told us that a meaningful amount of supply, some of it held for a while, was being moved rapidly. That was capitulation.

The second way CDD spikes is during a prolonged bull market top, like 2017, where you see a slow and gradual rise over many months rather than one sharp jerk higher. That kind of rise is driven by older coins selling into strength over time.

Right now, CDD is at a multi-year low. It has not been this low since early 2024.

This tells us two things. Overall activity on the blockchain is low. And the coins that are being moved are not old coins. Long-term holders are not selling at current prices. The activity we are seeing is almost entirely coming from that short-term, emotionally-driven cohort. Once they finish cycling out, the only capitulation left will largely be gone.

Risk Assets Hit New All-Time Highs

This week SPY, QQQ, NDQ, and IWM all printed new all-time highs. That is a broad-based move, not a narrow one. Large caps, small caps, growth, and the overall market moving together to record levels is about as risk-on an environment as you can get.

For Bitcoin, this backdrop matters. When capital is flowing freely into risk assets across the board, Bitcoin tends to benefit. The short-term holder consolidation we outlined in the on-chain section is playing out against one of the more constructive equity backdrops in recent memory. That is not a bad setup for when the consolidation resolves.

Rates pulled back this week, which offered some short-term relief across markets. Bond volatility, as measured by the MOVE index, has been trending down and is currently sitting around 69 — well off the elevated levels seen throughout 2022, 2023, and into 2025.

The pullback in rates is worth noting, but it is probably not the start of a new trend lower. The more likely interpretation is that this is a relief rally within a broader uptrend. Rates have been grinding higher on a structural basis for years now, and nothing about the current fiscal picture gives a good reason to believe that changes in a meaningful way anytime soon. The U.S. continues to run large deficits, issuance is not slowing down, and foreign demand for Treasuries remains a question mark.

For Bitcoin, the implications cut both ways depending on your time horizon. Rates rising in the near term is a headwind. Higher rates pull capital toward yield-bearing instruments and away from non-yielding assets. That is a short-term risk-off dynamic.

Over the medium and long term though, persistently high rates on a mountain of government debt is precisely the kind of fiscal pressure that historically forces central banks toward yield curve control or outright QE. The U.S. cannot afford to let rates run indefinitely. At some point the interest expense on the debt becomes the dominant budget line item and the Fed has to step in.

For a miner with 10 machines, that’s over $1,600 per year in electricity savings.

If you’ve been looking for a sign to jump into machines, this is it.

All miners purchased can be deducted fully in year-1 under section 168(k). This means for every $1 spent on miners, you can offset $1 of active income. Sign up for a consultation with a member of the Blockware team to learn more: https://blockwaresolutions.com/info

Bitcoin is holding strong at the short-term holder cost basis during this recent pullback. “Sell the rip” switching to “buy the dip” is a good sign that Bitcoin likely continues to trek higher from here in the short / medium term.

The chart below visualizes “buy the dip” behavior using the help of on-chain data. Addresses containing 0.01 to 1 BTC hold a combined ~1.33 million BTC. As a cohort, they’re by no means a major player when it comes to the market as a whole. However, prices are set at the margin, which means a slight shift in supply/demand dynamics can cause a change in price action; especially during times like now when trading volume & overall market activity is low.

This cohort, for the most part, is constantly accumulating. However, they’ve historically accumulated with larger size during Bitcoin bottoms. Note the spike in holdings in early February as BTC touched $60,000. We’re seeing a similar behavior now:

• BTC Dips

• Hardcore Holders Aggressively Buy the Dip

The situation in the treasury market is becoming increasingly more bleak as time goes on. The 30-Year Treasury Yield has reached ~5.08%, it’s highest level since 2007. Rising rates are going to increase pressure throughout the economy as borrowing costs rise for everyone; from those drowning in credit card debt, to new families taking out a mortgage, to the United States Government itself.

Oil prices remaining elevated puts the administration in a two-front battle: rising yields and rising prices. These battles cannot be fought simultaneously for a prolonged time without sever consequences towards the economy. Something has to give, that something will likely be a lower Fed funds rate and more quantitative easing.

Interestingly, gold has not followed long-end treasury yields higher on this latest move higher. Rising yields in Q4 2025 & Q1 2026 were accompanied by a “flight to safety” in gold; a non-sovereign store of value that hedges against over-indebted governments. However, that’s not been the response from gold as of late. This is a sign that, despite the uncertainties in the macro landscape, the market is risk-on.

A risk-on bid for a non-sovereign store of value will result in more capital inflows for Bitcoin.

When looking at the BTC/Gold chart, it is even more evident that a bottom has been formed. Based on the current Gold price of ~$4,500/ounce, a return to the all-time high of 38 gold ounces per 1 Bitcoin implies a BTC price of ~$171,000.

Twelve months ago, a Blockware client deployed ~$101,000 into ten Antminer S21 XP units at $7,830 per miner. 270 TH/s units hosted at $0.07/kWh. Here’s how the operation actually performed, coin by coin and dollar by dollar.

Bitcoin is down ~26% year-over-year. Surely this means Bitcoin mining hasn’t yielded the best results, right? Wrong.

In this newsletter, we’ll take a look at the 1-year returns of a ~$100k deployment into Bitcoin miners. Here’s the setup:

• 10 Antminer S21 XPs ($78,300)

• 12 Months of Electricity for the machines at $0.070/kWh ($22,779)

• $25 Setup Fee per Miner ($250)

• Total Investment: $101,329.79

The fleet never mined at a loss on an operating basis. With electricity at $0.07/kWh, every bitcoin produced cost roughly $49,100 in power; well below where Bitcoin has traded all year. That ~$27,000 spread between cost of production and spot price is the definition of a healthy margin, and it held through a period of meaningful network difficulty growth.

MONTHLY PRODUCTION

The table below breaks down the monthly revenue, both in terms of Bitcoin and in US Dollars. There are two noteworthy trends:

• The decrease in dollarized monthly revenue as the BTC price declined. In August, the monthly rewards peaked around $4,900 before dropping with the BTC price.

• The increase in BTC revenue from November until today. Mining difficulty has dropped due to large miners unplugging machines in favor of Ai servers. This has resulted in more BTC revenue for our clients.

While the volatility of BTC can be a deterrent, the most practical way to mine is as a Bitcoin accumulation strategy. Holding 100% of the mining rewards, benefiting from long-term BTC price appreciation. Practically, this can be achieved by pre-paying electricity up-front or paying out-of-pocket as you mine, rather than selling BTC mining rewards to cover the power bill.

THE TAX STORY

Bitcoin mining is one of the few asset acquisition strategies that comes with a first-year tax deduction on the full capital outlay. Under 100% bonus depreciation, the entire $78,300 hardware cost is deductible in year one. Prepaid power qualifies too. That changes the math significantly.

Mining doesn't just accumulate BTC. It converts operating capital into a tax-advantaged, self-custody Bitcoin position. The $25,171 tax benefit alone represents the equivalent of ~0.327 BTC at current prices. Combine that with the ~0.455 BTC acquired through mining, and approximately 60% of the cap. ex. has been returned in just 12 months.

• Net Mining Revenue: 0.455 BTC (~$35,035)

• Net 2025 Tax Savings: $25,171

• Returned Cap. Ex.: ~59.4%

If you’re interested in running this strategy for yourself, lowering your taxable income and increasing your BTC position, sign up for a free consultation with a member of the Blockware team. One of our mining experts will evaluate if this strategy makes sense for your goals and situation.

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With April CPI hitting a 3-year high of ~3.7%, entities like Goldman Sachs & Bank of America are tapering their rate expectations. The market is now pricing in less than a 1% probability of Federal Reserve rate cuts in 2026. In fact, the market is now placing a 38% probability of at least 1 interest rate hike before the end of the year.

Although there are legitimate, data-backed reasons to believe that the Fed will and should keep interest rates where they are at, the market is missing a key factor, and it’s hiding in plain sight…

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They use assets to acquire more assets. They use the tax code the way it was written to be used. And they build systems where each dollar they deploy does more than one job at a time.

What we are about to walk through is exactly that kind of system. Mark Moss call is The Perpetual Bitcoin Machine. And it is one of the most compelling wealth strategies available to Bitcoin holders today.

Here is the core idea in one sentence: Borrow against the Bitcoin you already own, use those funds to purchase hosted Bitcoin miners, write off the full cost against your tax bill, and collect newly minted Bitcoin every single month — while your collateral keeps appreciating.

It’s a proven blueprint just with a new asset.

Let’s break down every step.

Before we get into the mechanics, let’s establish the starting point. This strategy is built for someone who:

1. Already holds a meaningful amount of Bitcoin (or another asset that can be leveraged: Real Estate, Equities, Whole Life Insurance, etc.)

2. Has a tax liability (W-2 income, business income, capital gains, or some combination)

3. Wants to acquire more Bitcoin without selling what they have

If that describes you, keep reading.

Step 1: Borrow Against Your Bitcoin

The first move is capital deployment — without triggering a taxable event.

Selling Bitcoin to fund an investment creates a capital gains tax event. Borrowing against it does not. A Bitcoin-backed loan allows you to access liquidity while your BTC continues to appreciate.

Here is how the loan structure works in this model:

• Loan-to-Value (LTV): 33% — For every $3 of Bitcoin you hold, you can borrow $1. This conservative LTV gives significant cushion against price volatility and keeps margin call risk low.

• Interest Rate: 9% annually, accruing monthly and rolling into the loan balance, no monthly cash payments required.

• Term: 1 year, refinanced annually. The loan rolls forward each year, with accrued interest folded into the new principal.

Using the Tier 2 package as our model:

• Loan amount: $150,000

• Collateral BTC required: ~5.55 BTC

• Collateral value at origination: ~$444,000

• Starting LTV: 33%

• Annual interest rate: 9%

• Annual power cost of ~$46,000 added to loan balance each year

The $150,000 in loan proceeds funds the entire mining operation: 20 Bitcoin Miners (Antminer S21 XP, 270T), setup, and the first full year of power costs.

Step 2: Buy the Miners — and Reclaim Your Taxes

Under current IRS code, Bitcoin mining equipment qualifies as 5-year MACRS property — and it is eligible for 100% bonus depreciation in Year 1. This means you can deduct the full purchase price of the hardware from your taxable income in the year you buy it.

But the deduction does not stop at the hardware.

Electricity costs for Bitcoin mining are a deductible business expense. And there is a powerful timing strategy built into the Blockware bundle: because the first full year of power is prepaid upfront as part of the package, that entire power cost can be deducted in the same tax year as the hardware purchase — even though the electricity will be consumed over the following 12 months. This strategy, sometimes called a “prepaid expense deduction,” is well-established in tax law and allows you to pull forward a full year of operating deductions into Year 1.

The result: the entire $150,000 Tier 2 bundle is deductible in Year 1.

Here is what that looks like across different tax brackets:

At a 37% marginal rate, the government effectively hands you back $50,963 of your $150,000 investment in Year 1 alone — before a single Bitcoin has been mined. Your effective out-of-pocket cost on the bundle drops to just under $99,000.

That is not a loophole. That is the tax code working exactly as Congress designed it — to incentivize capital investment in productive assets.

Consult your CPA or tax advisor to confirm eligibility and timing of deductions in your specific situation.

There is one more piece of the tax picture to understand before moving on: the Bitcoin your miners produce is taxable as ordinary income at the time it is received, based on the fair market value of BTC on the day of receipt.

This is a real consideration. For someone in the 37% bracket receiving 0.0736 BTC per month at today’s prices, the monthly tax liability is meaningful.

However, there is a natural and entirely legal solution built right into this strategy: use a portion of your mining proceeds to purchase additional miners. Those new miners generate a new round of bonus depreciation, which offsets the ordinary income from your current mining operation. The system feeds itself.

Step 3: Produce Bitcoin Around the Clock

Once the loan funds are deployed and the paperwork is signed, Blockware takes over completely. The miners are procured, deployed to institutional-grade facilities, and brought online, typically within 2 to 3 weeks of funding.

From that point forward, Bitcoin flows to your wallet automatically, every month, with no action required on your part.

Here is what the Tier 2 production profile looks like over 4 years, incorporating two key real-world factors: annual difficulty growth of 10% (as more hashrate joins the network, each miner’s share of rewards shrinks) and the April 2028 halving, which cuts block rewards in half beginning in Year 3.

A natural question: if the halving cuts production in half, doesn’t that hurt the strategy?

It does reduce the amount of Bitcoin mined. But historically, every halving has been followed by a significant appreciation in Bitcoin’s price — because the same demand now faces half the new supply. The miners you own continue operating. The Bitcoin you have accumulated is worth more. And critically, your collateral is worth more too, which improves your LTV and borrowing capacity going forward.

The Full Picture: 4-Year Portfolio Snapshot

Now let’s put the whole machine together. This is what the Tier 2 strategy looks like as a complete portfolio at the end of Year 4, under the model’s base assumptions (20% annual BTC price growth, 10% annual difficulty increase, 9% loan rate, April 2028 halving).

Your collateral appreciated by $476,000. Your miners produced 2.264 BTC worth $375,000 at Year 4 prices. You recovered over $50,000 in taxes in Year 1 alone. And you did all of it without selling a single bitcoin.

Why This Works: The Three Engines Running Simultaneously

Most investments have one engine. This strategy has three, running in parallel:

Engine 1: Bitcoin price appreciation. Your collateral BTC grows in value over time. At 20% CAGR, 5.55 BTC grows from a $444,000 pledged value to $920,000 in four years — an increase of $476,000 on an asset you never sold.

Engine 2: Tax recapture. In Year 1, the government effectively subsidizes your investment through bonus depreciation and the power prepayment deduction. At a 37% marginal rate, you recover more than $50,000 of a $150,000 investment before the miners even turn on. That subsidy is permanent — it does not have to be repaid.

Engine 3: Continuous BTC production. Your miners run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year — producing Bitcoin that flows directly to your wallet, regardless of what price does in the short term. Over 4 years, you accumulate ~2.264 BTC from mining alone.

None of these engines cannibalizes the others. They compound together.

The Tradeoffs

No strategy worth understanding is without risk. Here are the ones you should know:

Loan risk. If BTC price falls significantly, your LTV rises. A sustained price decline could trigger a margin call, requiring you to post additional collateral or repay part of the loan. The 33% starting LTV provides substantial cushion — BTC would need to fall roughly 60%+ from origination to approach a typical margin call threshold — but it is not zero risk.

Difficulty growth. If more hashrate comes online faster than modeled, BTC production per miner falls faster than projected. We model 10% annual difficulty growth, which is conservative relative to historical norms but may understate growth in a strong bull market. That being said, the widespread pivot of large, public Bitcoin miners to Ai / HPC has triggered the first ever bear market in mining difficulty (down ~15% over the past six months).

Halving impact. The April 2028 halving is baked into these projections. Production drops roughly 50% beginning in Year 3. Historically, price appreciation has compensated — but there is no guarantee that pattern repeats on the same timeline.

BTC price assumption. The 20% CAGR assumption is adjustable in the model and is not a guarantee. All projected dollar values are a function of this assumption. Lower BTC appreciation reduces returns; higher appreciation amplifies them. 20% per year over the next 4 years would yield a BTC Price of ~$165,000; that seems reasonable to us.

All that being said, the biggest risk is inaction. You must have have a plan to beat inflation, minimize taxes, and build a wealth-compounding system.

This is it.

Who This Is Built For

The Perpetual Bitcoin Machine is most powerful for someone who:

• Holds BTC already and wants to put it to work without selling

• Has $100,000 – $500,000 in annual tax liability — business income, W-2 compensation, capital gains, or some combination

• Has a 3–4 year time horizon and is not looking for a short-term trade

How to Get Started

The best way to get started is to schedule a consultation with a member of the Blockware team. It’s free. It takes 30 minutes. And it could potentially save you tens or hundreds of thousands in taxes.

Fill out the form here and a member of our team will contact you in less than 24 hours to schedule a meeting: https://www.blockwaresolutions.com/info

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We’ve spent the past 3 months diligently waiting for a few key breakout signals while Bitcoin coils up like a spring.

These signals are now flashing. You should be ready for Bitcoin to make some big moves higher during the back half of this year.

The foremost indicator is the short-term holder realized price (cost basis). This level, when flipped from resistance to support, has historically signaled the end of down markets and consolidation.

In recent history, a breakout above STH-RP in Q4 2024 & Q2 2025 were followed by BTC moving significantly higher in the following months.

Acquiring Bitcoin isn’t about a one-time purchase. It’s about building a system that allows you to accumulate Bitcoin consistently in the most capital efficient way.

Right now, Blockware has some interesting bundled mining packages available:

Hardware. Hosting. Power. All included. All tax-deductible.

This allows our clients to keep more of the bitcoin they mine; rather than being forced to sell when Bitcoin is at a 40% discount.

- Buy miners without selling existing assets
- Lower 2026 taxes
- Increase your bitcoin position
- Rinse & repeat next year

If you want to learn more about these packages and how to get started, fill out the form on this page: https://www.blockwaresolutions.com/info

Miner Revenue per TeraHash is up ~40% from the February bottom. BTC picking up momentum + large-scale miners pivoting into HPC / Ai is creating the most bullish set up imaginable for smaller to mid-sized hosted Bitcoin miners (like those with Blockware).

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What a week in Las Vegas. After spending a few days on the ground with the brightest minds in the space, one thing is abundantly clear: the “noise” is quiet. Bear markets are a touch but necessary filter; they flush out the grifters and the unprofitable fluff, leaving behind a concentrated group of builders who are actually creating value. The conversations weren’t about “number go up” hype.

The companies still standing here in 2026 are the ones doing something meaningful, and the energy on the floor felt more like a construction site than a casino.

1. The Rise of Bitcoin Finance

Bitcoin finance is maturing into a robust ecosystem. Strike announced a reduction in their lending rates, signaling that liquidity is becoming more efficient. Between the growth of STRC and the expansion of digital credit markets, we are watching the plumbing of a new financial system being laid in real-time. We’re moving away from speculative “yield” and toward sustainable, Bitcoin-backed financial services.

This products will make it far easier to “live on Bitcoin.” Mitchell Askew, Head of Blockware Intelligence, touched on this topic during one of his live panels:

2. The Great Convergence: Mining & AI

The shift in the mining sector is accelerating faster than most realize. Bitcoin Mining & Ai Data centers are merging into a singular High-Performance Computing (HPC) industry. While the mega-miners are pivoting their massive footprints to host LLMs and AI workloads, it’s creating a massive opening for medium-scale miners. As the giants move toward HPC, Blockware clients and mid-sized operators are poised to gobble up the market share they leave behind. For more on how the mining landscape is shifting, check out this panel featuring Mitchell of Blockware and representatives from the top ASIC Manufacturers:

3. Beyond HODL: Building the Perpetual Machine

One of the most packed sessions was Mark Moss’s “Perpetual Bitcoin Machine” panel. It’s clear that the community is evolving past the simplicity of “HODL.” People are finally thinking about building a lasting system that can be passed on. Moss laid out a blueprint for living off your BTC forever in a tax-efficient way effectively building a system to pass down to your children.

This isn’t “new” tech; it’s the same playbook the Cantillon billionaire class has used for centuries, but now it’s being applied to the hardest asset on earth. You don’t sell the goose; you manage the eggs.

To learn more about tax-efficient Bitcoin strategies, sign up for a free consultation with the Blockware team: http://mining.blockwaresolutions.com/consult

4. Debunking the Quantum Boogeyman

Quantum is not a thread to Bitcoin in the short or medium term. Right now, it remains entirely abstract and hypothetical. Even if a quantum computer capable of breaking ECDSA eventually emerges, Bitcoin isn’t “ruined.” Quantum-resistant solutions are already in the works. Furthermore, the risk is misunderstood; a quantum computer attacks the public-private key pair, but if you’re using fresh bc1q (SegWit) addresses for every transaction, your public key isn’t even exposed to the network until you spend.

Even “Satoshi’s coins”, the ultimate FUD target, aren’t going to be snagged by a basement hacker who them proceeds to market sell all at once on coinbase. Quantum tech will emerge from Big Tech or nation-states, entities bound by legal due process, not a random actor looking to crash the market.

Mitchell discussed this on a BitGo sponsored panel with Adam Back, Alex of Project Eleven, and Richard Carback of Postquant labs. The recording has not yet been posted but we will post it when its live.

Key Takeaway: The signal has never been higher. While the tourists left during the drawdown, the architects stayed to build the infrastructure for the next decade.

One of the most interesting products being built is Blockware’s “Rent Hash.”

Bitcoin Miners produce Bitcoin at a discount below the market price. By renting a miner you can capture a piece of that spread without having to put up the capital to purchase the machine. Effectively, this allows you to dollar-cost average at a discount.

In the rental example below, you could acquire BTC for an effective price of $74,000 per coin. How? A $1,618 rental will earn ~0.02 BTC (~$1,740 worth) over the next two months.

Click here to see the full listing of rentals: https://marketplace.blockwaresolutions.com/renthash

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The Blockware Team will be at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas, April 27th - April 29th. Get ready for a week full of in-depth panel discussions, happy hours, and camaraderie.

Our team will be giving away a free Antminer S21 XP. Signing up for a chance to win is simple and free. All you have to do is visit the Blockware booth.

It’s large, green, and will be in the center of the conference hall. You won’t miss it.

Come talk Bitcoin Mining and enter for a chance to win a free miner worth ~$4,500.

If you’re unable to attend the conference and would still like to learn more about Bitcoin Mining with Blockware, click here to sign up for a free 30-minute consultation with a member of our team.

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While broader sentiment has remained mostly bearish since Bitcoin dropped to ~$60,000 in early February, Bitcoin Miners have quietly recovered to pre-February levels.

Over the past two months, Bitcoin Miner Revenue per Terahash (Hashprice) is up ~30%; currently sitting at ~$0.038/Th/Day.

Steady recovery in the price of Bitcoin coupled with a flurry of downward difficulty adjustments has created the perfect environment for Bitcoin miners.

The price of Bitcoin Mining Servers (ASICs) is beginning to reflect this recovery in hashprice.

The official listed price on Bitmain’s website for Antminer S21 XPs has increased to $17/Th — up from $15/Th back in February.

The actual price of mining hardware can vary; it’s a far less liquid and fungible market than Bitcoin itself (nothing’s more liquid than Bitcoin; billions of $ of trading volume 24/7/365). Deal size, used vs new, shipping times, etc., can all impact miner prices and no two deals are identical.

That being said, the listing price from the manufacturers tends to initiate a “ripple effect”, which leads to a change in pricing across the breadth of the market.

Miner prices on the Blockware Marketplace are showing a similar trend.

S21 XPs, as recently as March, were selling for ~$13.5/Th on the platform. The lowest available listing is $17.7/Th — nearly a 30% increase.

The Blockware Marketplace is a peer-to-peer platform that allows users to buy/sell hosted miners. Often times, these units carry a “premium” relative to purchasing brand new machines. Time is money; buying a machine that is already on the rack at one of Blockware’s data centers can be more valuable than waiting 2 to 3 weeks for brand new units to arrive.

The Marketplace is great if you’re new to Bitcoin Mining and want to get your feet wet with 1 or 2 machines.

Blockware has bulk discounts available (on hardware & power costs) for clients purchasing 10 or more machines. If you’re interested in learning more about Bitcoin Mining — bonus depreciation, power costs, BTC revenue, etc. — fill out the form here: https://mining.blockwaresolutions.com/info

A member of our team will provide more information and help you determine if Bitcoin Mining makes sense for you and your financial goals.

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Risk is on. QE is underway. A dovish Fed chair takes office next month. Weak hands have been shaken out.

The bullish catalysts are compounding. Bitcoin likely surprises to the upside over the next 12 to 24 months.

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The orange bars tell the sharper story within the story. AI-optimized server electricity usage alone is expected to grow nearly fivefold by 2030, from 93 TWh in 2025 to 432 TWh. That single subcategory will represent nearly half of all data center power demand by the end of the decade. The capital flowing into this infrastructure is pre-leased, contracted, and anchored by hyperscaler demand that has no viable alternative. For operators with access to power, land, and capital, the window is open, but not indefinitely.

Wholesale Colocation Asking Rates

The price of a megawatt has never been higher, and it is still rising. Average wholesale colocation asking rates in primary U.S. markets have gone from $120/kW-month in H2 2021 to $196/kW-month in H2 2025, a 63% increase in four years. Our base-case estimate puts the trajectory continuing toward $210/kW-month by H2 2026 as supply constraints in every major market remain structurally unresolved. Northern Virginia, home to the world’s most densely interconnected data center cluster in Ashburn, is already at $215/kW-month, the highest rate ever recorded in any U.S. market.

The important context for Bitcoin miners: converting to annual per-megawatt terms, a $200/kW-month rate implies $2.4M in annual revenue per MW of contracted capacity. A 100 MW facility at that rate generates $240M per year, before power pass-through revenue, against well under $100M in gross revenue from Bitcoin mining at current economics. That gap is the core economic logic behind every miner-to-HPC pivot you have seen over the past 18 months.

Publicly Disclosed Miner-to-AI Deals

This table represents the deal landscape as it actually exists today, not as it has been hyped. Core Scientific locked in 500 MW with CoreWeave at approximately $121/kW-month over 12 years, $8.7B in contracted revenue. Cipher Digital followed with 600 MW split between AWS and Fluidstack/Google at approximately $149/kW-month, totaling more than $19B. Hut 8 signed a 15-year, 245 MW lease with Fluidstack at roughly $160/kW-month for $7B. The pattern is clear: multi-hundred MW commitments, decade-plus durations, and hyperscaler-grade counterparties.

Two things stand out beyond the headline numbers. First, the companies that moved earliest locked in rates that are now meaningfully below current market. Core Scientific’s $121/kW-month is roughly $75–80/kW-month below where new deals are being priced today. First-mover advantage in this market is not a buzzword; it is tens of millions of dollars per year in contracted revenue that latecomers cannot capture retroactively. Second, the asterisk on IREN’s deal is worth understanding: their $810/kW-month implied rate reflects an AI cloud services agreement where they own the GPUs and sell compute time, not a pure infrastructure hosting deal. It is a fundamentally different risk-return profile than the landlord model.

Implied Hosting Rate by Deal

Reading this chart from top to bottom tells the whole competitive story. The current Ashburn market peak of $215/kW-month sits at the far right. Core Scientific’s CoreWeave deal, struck in 2024, sits at $121/kW-month. The gap between those two numbers, roughly $94/kW-month, represents the market appreciation that has occurred since the first major miner-to-AI deal was signed. On a 100 MW facility, that gap equates to approximately $113M per year in forgone revenue.

This is why JPMorgan, in upgrading Cipher and IREN in late 2025, focused so heavily on contracted revenue as a valuation anchor. The landlord model with a long-duration, power-pass-through lease to a creditworthy hyperscaler converts a volatile mining operation into something that trades more like infrastructure. The rate you lock in today determines the economics for the next decade. Every month of delay is a month of appreciation at the market rate that a new deal will never recapture.

How Data Center Electricity Demand Will Be Met (2024–2030)

The power required to run AI infrastructure has to come from somewhere, and the IEA’s breakdown of incremental supply sources is instructive. Renewables lead with approximately 110 TWh of additional generation, driven primarily by wind, solar, and corporate PPA strategies from hyperscalers. Natural gas follows closely at 130+ TWh, the fastest-to-deploy dispatchable source in most markets. Nuclear plays a smaller role through 2030 but is set to accelerate meaningfully as the first small modular reactors come online, supported by more than 20 GW of planned SMR financing from technology companies.

The takeaway for investors is not which energy source wins; it is that power delivery, not land or capital or even demand, has become the binding constraint. Data center vacancy in primary U.S. markets sits at 1.6%, an all-time low. Interconnection queues in constrained markets now extend beyond eight years. Operators who already hold permitted, connected power, precisely the position Bitcoin miners built for themselves over the prior decade, are structurally advantaged in a way that cannot be quickly replicated by new entrants regardless of how much capital they have.

Antminer Efficiency Progression

This table is one of the most important data sets in Bitcoin mining, and it rarely gets the attention it deserves. The efficiency gain from S1 to S3 was 60%. S3 to S7 was 66%. S9 to S17 was 54%. By the time you reach the S21 XP, the generation-over-generation improvement had compressed to 10%, the smallest air-cooled gain on record at the time. The S23 Air, shipping now after an eight-month delay from announcement, offers roughly 18% improvement over the S21 XP. That sounds reasonable in isolation. In context of the trend, it is further confirmation that ASIC hardware is commoditizing.

The implications of diminishing efficiency gains compound in ways that are not immediately obvious. When improvements were large, new machines rapidly made older hardware uneconomical, forcing rapid fleet turnover and driving accelerating hashrate growth. As gains compress, older machines stay competitive longer. The competitive lifespan of an S21 XP today is materially longer than the competitive lifespan of an S9 was when the S17 arrived. For low-cost miners running well-positioned fleets, this is quietly favorable. For the hashrate growth outlook, it means the hardware upgrade cycle is no longer a reliable driver of rapid network expansion.

ASIC Efficiency Over Time (Log Scale)

The log scale on this chart is deliberate; it is the only way to fairly visualize a curve that drops from 2,000 W/Th in 2013 to 11 W/Th today. On a linear scale, the recent improvement would look nearly flat, and on a log scale, you can see that it genuinely is flattening. The slope of efficiency improvement that characterized the S1-through-S9 era simply does not exist anymore.

What is driving this, beyond the physics of semiconductor miniaturization? TSMC, the world’s dominant advanced foundry, now allocates approximately 28% of its total wafer capacity to AI chip production. NVIDIA has secured a dominant share of TSMC’s most advanced packaging slots, with reports suggesting over 70% of CoWoS capacity reserved during peak allocation cycles. Bitcoin ASIC manufacturers, Bitmain, MicroBT, and Canaan, are competing for foundry capacity against NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, and hyperscaler custom silicon programs. The revenue-per-wafer from an AI GPU is multiples higher than from a Bitcoin ASIC. Foundries allocate to their highest-value customers. The result: ASIC lead times are extending, generation cadences are stretching, and efficiency gains are arriving later and smaller than at any prior point in Bitcoin’s history.

Bitcoin Network Hashrate Projection

This chart shows two futures diverging from Q1 2026 onward. The orange dashed line extrapolates the prior-cycle growth rate, absent any structural disruption. The green line incorporates what is actually happening: hundreds of MW of mining capacity being physically converted to AI/HPC use, and a slower ASIC deployment cadence driven by foundry deprioritization and compressed efficiency gains. The widening gap between those two lines is the cumulative drag from forces that are structural, not cyclical.

The counterintuitive implication is worth stating plainly: for low-cost Bitcoin miners who are not pivoting to AI, this is a tailwind. When hashrate growth slows or reverses, each remaining miner captures a larger share of the block reward without deploying additional capital. The difficulty adjustment mechanism ensures that a smaller network hashrate directly improves economics for those who remain. Small-to-mid sized miners, who typically lack the land scale, power interconnect size, and institutional balance sheet required to attract hyperscaler tenants, cannot access the AI pivot, but they do not need to. Every megawatt that leaves the Bitcoin network for an AI data center makes their existing operations more valuable.

Illustrative Cumulative Cash Flow: 100 MW Facility

This chart is the most important reality check in this report. AI data center ROI is real, but it is back-weighted in a way that demands clear-eyed capital planning. Model A, the pure HPC hosting landlord at roughly $167/kW-month with power costs passed through, generates approximately $150–170M in annual cash flow on a $1.7B facility. The math works. The payback period is approximately 10 years. Model B, the GPU cloud owner-operator who owns the servers and sells compute time, has a higher revenue ceiling but a dramatically steeper capex requirement approaching $3B, and faces a sharp cash flow dip at Year 5 when a full GPU server refresh is required before the original investment has paid back.

The most important sentence in this analysis: the highest returns in this environment will accrue to operators who locked in low-cost power positions years ago and are now converting that infrastructure to AI hosting at 2025–2026 market rates. A miner converting an already-depreciated 100 MW facility enters this equation with a cost basis that no greenfield builder can replicate today, at any price. That structural advantage, not the raw hosting rate, is the actual source of alpha in the miner-to-AI pivot. For everyone else evaluating this space as a new entrant, the payback timelines shown here should be the starting assumption, not the optimistic case.

Stack Bitcoin, Slash Taxes

There has never been a better time to deploy capital into Bitcoin mining, and the tax advantages available right now make the decision even more compelling. Under current U.S. tax law, Bitcoin mining hardware qualifies for 100% Bonus Depreciation, meaning the full cost of your machines can be deducted in year one. For high-income individuals, family offices, and businesses with meaningful tax liability, this is one of the most powerful accelerated depreciation opportunities available in any asset class today.

While large-scale miners convert megawatts to AI hosting and ASIC lead times extend, the miners who stay the course are quietly inheriting a less competitive network. Lower difficulty, longer machine lifespans, and a shrinking hashrate base all work in your favor. Blockware handles the infrastructure, the power contracts, and the operations. You own the machines and the Bitcoin they produce.

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• Lower Federal Funds Rate

• BTC Increasing in Price (This makes STRC “safer” due to it increasing Strategy’s balance sheet and the overcollateralization; ultimately attracting more demand for STRC, driving the yield lower in order to maintain the $100/share peg).

Does it have a use-case? Yes. Is it as great as many in the Bitcoin world make it out to be. No.

Mitchell Askew, Head of Blockware Intelligence, breaks it down in detail here:

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Our base case is this: the bottom is likely on price, but not on time. Continued consolidation throughout Q2 is the most probable near-term outcome. The short-term holder cost basis is declining at approximately $1,000 per week and is on track to converge with the current price range around May or June, precisely when the Federal Reserve leadership transition takes effect.

The coil is tightening.

This is “accumulation territory.”

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“This transaction enhances financial flexibility and increases strategic optionality as we expand beyond pure-play bitcoin mining into digital energy and AI/HPC infrastructure” - Fred Thiel (CEO)

The biggest story across Bitcoin, Finance, and Technology in 2026 is large-scale data center operators pivoting from Bitcoin Mining to Artificial Intelligence. This pivot is not due to a fault with Bitcoin or Bitcoin Mining. Rather, it’s a testament to how lucrative it is to be in Ai right now.

Firstly, the business models are essentially fungible.

Both require data centers with low-cost power.

If you own a data center, you must choose how to monetize that asset:

1. Self-Mining

2. Hosting (BTC Miners or Ai Servers)

The table below provides a side-by-side comparison between Bitcoin Mining (at current market prices) or Ai hosting (at $0.17/kWh).

At present, hosting Ai servers will earn ~1.64x more than running a fleet of Antminer S21 XPs. Furthermore, this likely understates the Ai side of the equation because recent large scale hosting deals have been at rates north of $0.20/kWh.

Not only is the revenue generally higher with Ai hosting, it’s far more predictable. Ai contracts are often signed for terms of 10 or more years; providing the data center operator with consistent positive cashflow, at a predictable clip, for over a decade.

For CFO’s of publicly traded data center operators, the higher gross revenue plus predictability makes Ai hosting a no-brainer.

Why This is a Good Thing

The “difficulty” to mine BTC is directly correlated to the amount of compute on the network. There’s a finite amount of BTC, fewer large scale miners competing for that means smaller miners (those without large-scale data centers) will earn more BTC.

For the first time in Bitcoin’s history, we’re seeing a sustained decrease in Hash Rate / Mining Difficulty. Over the past 90-days, hash rate is down ~6%. Previous drawdowns in hash rate were induced by:

• China Mining Man

• BTC Dropping to $16,000 in 2022

• 2024 Halving Putting Pressure in Inefficient Miners

None of these drops in hash rate were sustained long-term; this time is likely different. Demand for Ai servers is accelerating faster than new data centers can be built, which means hosting rates will likely increase, and more large miners will be incentivized to pivot.

As difficulty drops, Bitcoin Mining will become more lucrative to medium and smaller miners; those without access to the economies of scale that make Ai hosting an option.

Even though the price of BTC is down, Bitcoin miners are mining more BTC per unit of compute due to fewer large scale miners competing for the ~450 BTC that are mined daily.

Blockware’s Mining as a Service enables a ‘Cap Ex Lite’ model of Bitcoin Mining. Rather than building your own data center, you can mine BTC at one of ours:

• 100% Bonus Depreciation on the Miners

• 1 Cap Ex. = ASICs

• 1 Op. Ex. = Power Costs

• Production Cost of ~$50k per BTC

If you’ve ever considered mining Bitcoin, entering the market now will allow you to scoop up the BTC that large public operators are leaving on the table. Fill out the form here to learn more: https://www.blockwaresolutions.com/info

Mitchell Askew, Head of Blockware Intelligence, breaks down the ‘Ai Pivot’ in the latest video on the Blockware YouTube channel. Check it out 👇

The one-year price chart tells the story of Q1 in a single frame. After failing twice to reclaim the $75,000 level as support, Bitcoin broke down sharply in February, dropping to a low of approximately $60,000. That $60,000 level has since held, and March has produced a quieter, more constructive base. The $75,000 level now sits as the key resistance to watch on the way back up.

The failed recapture of the short-term holder cost basis was the technical trigger for the flush. Two attempts. Two rejections. The market needed to wash out the remaining weak hands before a real base could form, and it did exactly that.

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However, a series of higher highs and higher lows throughout March provide a glimmer of short-term hope. Medium to long-term, the data strongly signals that this is the time to be accumulating heavily.

Our base case currently is that the “bottom” is likely in from a price perspective, but perhaps not from a time perspective.

Speaking of accumulation, Bitcoin Miners accumulate BTC every day at a discount to the market price. A single S21 XP mining at $0.070/kWh uses ~$6 per day in electricity to produce ~$9 worth of BTC.

$9 worth of BTC for $6.

Nearly a 50% discount to the market price.

For long-term accumulators, this is a great asset in the portfolio.

Additionally, 100% Bonus Depreciation on the hardware makes this especially appealing from a tax-mitigation perspective.

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• BTC: +12%

• SPX: -2%

• TLT: -4%

• Gold: -7%

• Silver: -16%

While this is a relatively short-window, the recent outperformance is raising green flags for BTC bulls. BTC normally struggles during periods of large-scale macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty.

This recent price action hints at idiosyncratic factors, likely a supply shortage, that are proving to be more impactful on the market than marginal demand changes due to this event.

This relief rally for BTC has come at a time in which the market began pricing in a more hawkish position from the Federal Reserve. The market is now placing a 39% chance of no more rate cuts this year. A hawkish shift in policy expectations, normally a bearish catalyst for BTC, having no impact on the price is yet another piece of evidence towards idiosyncratic supply/demand dynamics in BTC.

In layman terms, there’s (likely) nobody left holding BTC that is willing to sell or change their position due to factors such as geopolitics or Fed policy; only the hardcore holders are still in the market.

The type to continue holding BTC after a 50% drawdown (plus 75 to 99% drawdowns in BTC related equities), is convicted in their long-term thesis.

Blockware’s “Buy the Dip Promo”, valid while BTC is under $75,000 per coin, is less than a 2% move away from expiring.

• 1 Free Month of Hosting

• $15/T on S21 XPs (online less than 24 hours after purchase)

• $0.070/kWh Electricity Rate

Acquiring miners today will allow you to accumulate BTC everyday at a discount even at it rallies higher over the next 12 to 24 months.

Additionally, miners qualify for 100% Bonus Depreciation under Section 168(k). This means you can deduct 100% of the miner cost in a single tax year.

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