While home miners are collectively buying thousands of new machines, the industrial players are buying millions. So while she expects the number of home miners to increase, she guesses their share of the network will shrink.

“Even if they’re running at a small loss,” said Voell, “they’ll run an ASIC or two just to participate in the network.”

She likes that she didn’t need to be a mechanic or an engineer (her background is in finance); she just followed the DIY tools of the community and figured it out. She didn’t need millions of dollars of capital; she just needed a few hundred bucks and a willingness to learn.