Bitcoin Difficulty Is Down Year Over Year for the Second Time Ever
For only the second time in Bitcoin’s history, network difficulty, and with it, hashrate, is down year-over-year. This almost never happens. Two structural forces keep difficulty grinding higher over any twelve-month window. The first is Moore’s Law: each new generation of mining rigs is more
Firmware Features – Immersion Mining and Firmware: What LuxOS Changes
Submerge an ASIC in dielectric fluid, and its biggest constraint disappears.
Neocloud Unit Economics: What Bitcoin Miners Already Know About Running GPU-Only Clouds
Model neocloud economics yourself: the formula, the miner's edge, and a live calculator.
The State of Bitcoin Mining in Brazil (2026)
A few first movers, a complicated tax code, and a grid too big and messy to navigate easily.
Global Hashrate Heatmap Update: Q3 2026
Hashrate Index's Global Hashrate Heatmap tracks how Bitcoin mining compute power moves around the world.
Firmware Features Series – Power Targeting: Watt-Level Fleet Control
You pick the watts, LuxOS holds that target, within a range you define.
