Lium mining profitability debate over burn rate
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Community member challenged the 90% burn rate as unprofitable for retail miners, arguing it incentivizes only data centers and contradicts decentralization goals. Team responded that miners can adjust rental prices and receive subsidies for unrented GPUs (~$1.50/H100/hr), but the core disagreement on burn rate structure remained unresolved. H200 GPUs now available on platform.
- •90% burn rate makes retail GPU mining unprofitable at current TAO price
- •Team pays ~$1.50/hr for unrented GPUs plus subsidy on rented capacity
- •Miners must price competitively; H100s listed at $3/hr struggle vs. $1.90/hr wholesale cost
- •Node qualification system coming to add system-based weighting beyond GPU type
Distilled from 15 team messages in the official Bittensor Discord. Generated by Claude Haiku 4.5.
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