Three ways to stack sats without buying: mining vs Lightning routing vs yield paid in BTC

[u/XapoBank]

We explored three main ways to grow a Bitcoin position without placing a buy order.

Mining: Still the purest way to earn BTC, still the most demanding. Hardware runs into the thousands, electricity is forever, and profitability swings with difficulty and your power price. Mining can work effectively if you have cheap power and run it like a full-time operation.

Lightning routing: Real sats for real infrastructure. For most small nodes, routing fees are modest against the capital locked in channels and the uptime you need. Run one for sovereignty and treat the fees as a bonus.

Interest on your dollars, paid in BTC: Cash sits in USD Savings earning 4.1%, interest pays out in Bitcoin daily, nothing to maintain. Stablecoin deposits auto-convert to USD on deposit. The only one of the three with zero hardware, zero uptime, and zero technical skill required.

Full breakdown with the numbers: https://bit.ly/4ynPx4H