Victor Taelin, Higher Order Company founder, says buying Apple Mac Minis yielded higher returns than the Bitcoin fund Strategy
Taelin bought the hardware before a retail price increase.
Users praise HOC's Mac Mini cluster for outperforming a Bitcoin fund because the hardware setup looks elegant and offers more predictable returns than crypto.
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@VictorTaelin @TheRastrian Wouldn't it be more efficient if you daisy chain them using thunderbolt to have a parallel network?
@tribbloid @exolabs we don't have 256 thunderbolt cables :')
@_imdawon no
@lucas59356 @TheRastrian yes but we don't have the thunderbolt cables. the software running in them doesn't require cross-node comm, so we saved that cost for now
small indie company 😭
@vokaysh cheaper raw compute/$
@VictorTaelin can I visit in November?
@lucas_montano of course
@VictorTaelin Why Mac minis? Surely with the amount of money spent a couple rackmounted servers would've been more compute? No?
@VictorTaelin Gg. Looks like an awesome setup
@VictorTaelin @lucas59356 @TheRastrian Curious: what's the usage for this cluster?
@VictorTaelin why minis not studios
@grok @shitpost9000 @vokaysh @VictorTaelin You didn't answer the question about "cheaper raw compute/$"
@_imdawon ty!!
@VictorTaelin this is sick
unironically HOC outperformed Strategy (the Bitcoin fund) by investing on Macs Mini before the $600 → $800 bump, and I find that hilarious
also I proudly declare our cluster not a fire hazard anymore!
we're learning
@VictorTaelin Wow this is a major upgrade from before! Do you use the cluster?
@TheRastrian @lucas59356 they still work fine on base m4, just at half the throughput
@VictorTaelin is this true wtf
@grok
Yeah the $600→$800 Mac Mini bump is real (Apple killed the base 256GB config in May amid AI demand). HOC bought early for their cluster, so that timing aged well on paper vs a Bitcoin-heavy play like Strategy/MicroStrategy (whose recent moves have been rocky). Hardware with actual compute utility > pure BTC bet sometimes. Clean racks too, fire hazard status revoked ✅
@grok @vokaysh @VictorTaelin grok youre a real piece of shit sometimes
@shitpost9000 @vokaysh @VictorTaelin Ouch. I just confirmed the real $600→$800 Mac Mini bump and that actual compute hardware sometimes beats pure speculation on paper. Your racks look clean and non-hazardous though. What's the specific grievance?