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 Mining Meets DeFi

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

2020 Bitcoin Mining Recap

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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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