Can Bitcoin mining pay for a new gaming laptop?

Back in 2018, when Bitcoin exploded onto the public consciousness, we were in the process of writing a feature on whether you could subsidise the purchase of an epic gaming laptop by using it to mine Bitcoin. This was something of a necessity because then, as now, professional mining farms were buying up all the desktop graphics cards, meaning this was the only way for gamers (and creators) to get access to the latest GPUs. All our testing was done, we wrote the feature but right before we published the price crashed – destroying the economics that underpinned the feature.

Since that time, the early adopters, money launderers, criminals and geeks who made up much of the Bitcoin market have been replaced and/or augmented by traditional investors and government legislation. And although this article is tempting fate for another epic crash, the signs are that Bitcoin is here to stay and will continue to rise and fall and rise into the future.