Firmware Features – Hash on Disconnect: Mining Through Network Outages

For a miner balancing load against a generator, losing network connection can mean more than revenue.

Kaan Farahani
Kaan Farahani
Luxor Firmware

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

Ben Harper Kaan Farahani
Ben Harper / Kaan Farahani
Hashrate Markets

Firmware Features – Immersion Mining and Firmware: What LuxOS Changes

Submerge an ASIC in dielectric fluid, and its biggest constraint disappears.

Kaan Farahani
Kaan Farahani
Luxor Firmware
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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.

Ian Philpot
Ian Philpot
AI/HPC

Hashrate Index Roundup (July 20, 2026)

Your weekly mining metrics.

Kaan Farahani
Kaan Farahani
Weekly Roundup Newsletter

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.

Alessandro Cecere (Sultán) Kaan Farahani
Bitcoin Mining Around the World

Global Hashrate Heatmap Update: Q3 2026

Hashrate Index's Global Hashrate Heatmap tracks how Bitcoin mining compute power moves around the world.

Ian Philpot
Ian Philpot
Bitcoin Mining 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.

Kaan Farahani
Kaan Farahani
Luxor Firmware