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    "title": "Bitcoin Mining in 2026: From Hobby to a Real Risk Map",
    "description": "A grounded 2026 overview of home and small-scale Bitcoin mining: real CAPEX/OPEX, legal and tax risks, exit routes, and when it is smarter to just buy BTC or rotate into privacy coins.",
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    "category": "Mining & Infrastructure",
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      "Bitcoin mining",
      "BTC mining 2026",
      "home mining risks",
      "CAPEX OPEX mining",
      "BTC to XMR privacy",
      "anonymous crypto swaps"
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    "publishedAt": "2025-12-08T09:00:00+03:00",
    "modifiedAt": "2025-12-08T09:00:00+03:00",
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    "riskNotes": [
      "Home and small-scale Bitcoin mining in 2026 faces thin margins that can flip negative after halvings, difficulty jumps or local power price hikes.",
      "Treating mining only as a technical hobby while ignoring tax, regulatory and custody obligations can turn a profitable setup into a compliance liability.",
      "Using anonymous or non-custodial swap routes without a strict criteria checklist exposes miners to outright scams and platforms that invite legal trouble.",
      "Over-concentrating all payouts on a single exchange account increases the impact of sudden freezes, security incidents or policy changes at that venue."
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    "keyTakeaways": [
      "Mining economics depend less on simply owning an ASIC and more on full CAPEX/OPEX accounting plus realistic BTC price and difficulty assumptions.",
      "Local regulation, tax rules and basic wallet security are as important as hashrate when deciding whether a small mining operation makes sense.",
      "Non-custodial swaps and privacy coins like XMR are useful as deliberate tools for shaping cash flow and privacy buckets, not as magic exits.",
      "Miners benefit from pre-defined playbooks that describe when to expand or shut down rigs, how to split income between BTC, stablecoins and XMR, and which routes to use for which goals."
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