2020 Bitcoin Mining Recap

This guide covers the investment decision, the process of purchasing equipment, and other key considerations.

ASIC and Bitcoin Mining Purchasing Guide

Firmware is one of the most neglected areas of mining. Historically it has been left for only the technicians in mining facilities to deal with. But with an industry that is rapidly evolving, every piece of the mining stack must be understood and leveraged, so we put together this guide to give a brief overview.

ASIC Custom Firmware

ASIC Liquidity Premium

Single chain Mining Pools will be replaced by chain-agnostic switcher. Profit-switching algorithms can access deeper hashrate liquidity and use superior execution technology to get best point-in-time execution for miners.

ASIC Miner Management Guide & Reviews

Here are some key questions to ask a potential hosting provider to ensure what is being quoted as all-in or managed services truly are managed. You can use this checklist to help select a hosting provider.

Is Bitcoin Cloud Mining Profitable?

In this post we talk about what the block reward is, why it decreases, the 2016 Bitcoin Halving and predictions for the 2020 Bitcoin Halving.

Bitcoin Halving 2020: Concepts, Case Studies and Predictions

Bitcoin Mining Meets DeFi

Cloud mining is often portrayed by industry insiders as a scam and to outsiders as a way to get rich quick. Although there have been countless of unethical & illegal players in the cloud mining space, they continue to flourish. There are a few platforms today that play an important role in the ecosystem so we figured it was time to do a deep dive on it.

Bitcoin Cloud Mining Guide: Scam or Legit?

Deep dive on the volatility of crypto mining reward, why we think this is the case, and if it is correlated to other assets.

Crypto Mining: Hashprice Volatility & Correlation to Bitcoin

What Luck is, how it is calculated, how it can be analyzed and what it means for different industry players.

Crypto Mining: Luck, Probability and BlockWithholding Attack

This article is meant to serve as a guide to understanding how crypto mining works from a miner’s perspective.

Crypto Mining: Network Difficulty, Share Difficulty and Hash Functions

End of the Mining Pool Era

If you had a 3MW facility could you host 1,000 Bitmain Antminer T17+’s, and how much PH/second would that give you in hashing power?

Energy Consumption (kWh) to Hashrate (PH/s) Guide for Bitcoin Mining

Dive deep into the impact of fork on the price of hashrate and do a case study on the Bitcoin Cash Fork and the Bitcoin SV Fork.

Case Study: Fork’s Effect on SHA-256 Hashprice

A hard fork in cryptocurrency refers to a radical and permanent change in the set of network participants agreed on to transact.

Explained: Hard Forks

Hashrate is an asset that usually experiences backwardation, i.e. it’s expected future value is lower than the spot price.

Hashrate Futures: Backwardation

By limiting exposure to altcoin markets, miners can stack more sats for the same hashrate.

Limit Exposure to Altcoins, Stack Sats

Merged Mining: Explained. How a single PoW can validate multiple chains?

Merged Mining: Explained

Powerplants and electricity suppliers are becoming aware of the benefits of bitcoin mining for their operations. As such, mobile bitcoin mining setups are increasingly popular. In this comprehensive guide, we review the top Bitcoin mobile mining units.

Mobile Bitcoin Mining Shipping Container Guide & Reviews

A comprehensive deep-dive into different mining pool payment structures.

Different Bitcoin Mining Pool Payment Methods (PPS vs FPPS vs PPLNS vs PPS+)

We will walk through some key terms, explain what profit switching is and layout our view on the future of profit switching.

What is Profit Switching in Crypto Mining?

5 Questions to Ask Your Hosting Provider

This is the first installment of our series on regulatory trends in the crypto mining space. In this article, we take a look at recent crypto-regulatory news in the US at the state and federal level.

Rise of Mining States: USA

The issue results when a large amount of hashrate jumps over to a smaller network, resulting in a higher network difficulty, then jumps back, leaving the network’s remaining miners to work on a difficulty not meant for that level of hashrate (essentially stranding miners).

Stranded Difficulty Issue (PoW) Crypto Mining

Speculation on Bitcoin mining is growing, with Bitcoin grabbing headlines for its rocketing price this year. We describe different ways to get exposure to Bitcoin Mining.

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