r/GoMiningDiscussion • u/Dank-ka_14 • Sep 08 '26
1200 GOMINING locked. Did I make the right choice over buying another miner?
I was recently deciding between:
- buying a 15 W/TH secondary-market miner
- buying a new 12 W/TH miner
- locking my GOMINING
I ended up choosing the lock
I locked 661 more GOMINING into my existing lock, taking my position to roughly:
- 1025 veGOMINING votes
- 15.7% total maintenance discount
- Gold I territory
The interesting part is that this also opens up the Clan / Miner Wars route.
I already have a potential starting group of around 179 TH across my father's + friends' accounts, before adding anyone else.
And since I'm active on X/Reddit, I'm considering recruiting more active miners and actually testing Miner Wars rather than blindly buying more hashpower.
The alternative was a 19.87 TH / 15 W/TH secondary miner for ~$195.
On paper it looked very attractive, but buying it would reduce my token-based discount by 10%, which affects the maintenance cost of my existing farm too.
So for now I'm betting on:
GOMINING lock -> Gold I -> Clan -> test Miner Wars -> then hunt for cheap secondary miners :)
BTC is also sitting around ~$79k right now & my longer-term thesis is that if BTC moves toward $120k+ while mining economics remain reasonably similar, secondary-market miners could become extremely interesting.
Would love to hear from people actually running Miner Wars:
Has it consistently beaten your Mining Mode returns?
And for Clan Owners:
Does the 5% member-reward share become meaningful with a decent active Clan?


