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Bitcoin ASIC prices for different models and efficiencies react differently to Bitcoin's price depending on market conditions. 

Bitcoin ASIC Prices Correlate Differently to Bitcoin Price Depending on Market Environment

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This October was the strongest on record for public North American miners in terms of total bitcoin mined.

North American Bitcoin Miners Continue Blockbuster Year With Strongest Ever October Production

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This is the first edition for our weekly market update for public bitcoin mining stocks.

Bitcoin Mining Public Stock Update 11/20/21

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Bitcoin hashprice in terms of USD is still riding high, but bitcoin-denominated hashprice is slumping towards yearly lows. 

Bitcoin Mining Profitability (in BTC) Slips Toward Yearly Lows

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How profitable is the Antminer S19XP? Here's how Bitmain's newest miner compares to other top-tier Bitcoin miners.

Antminer S19XP Profitability: How the S19XP Stacks up to Other Top ASICs

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Bitmain's newest bitcoin miner, the Antminer S19XP, will produce 140 TH/s and will come onto the market in Q3 of 2022.

What is the Antminer S19XP? Everything You Need to Know About Bitmain’s Newest Bitcoin Miner

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Atlas Mining will use Luxor's mining pool to manage the hashrate on 3.7 EH worth of machines.

Luxor Partners With Atlas Mining for Pool Services on 100MW Operation

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Prices for the M20, M30, S9, S17, and S19 bitcoin miners are closing in on their Spring 2021 highs.

M20, M30, S9, S17 and S19 Bitcoin Miner Prices Are Close to Yearly Highs

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Looking for Whatsminer M20S profitability and efficiency compared to the Whatsminer M30S, M31S, and M32 series? We've got you covered.

MicroBT Whatsminer M20S, M30S, M30s++, M31 and M32 Profitability and Specifications

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North American public mining companies will roughly quadruple their collective hashrate in the coming year.

Public North American Miners Are Gunning to Grow Their Hashrate by 270% In 2022

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Our newest team member will be instrumental for Luxor to work directly with energy companies in the nuclear and oil and gas sectors.

Luxor Mining Taps Nuclear Energy Team Lead for Bitcoin Mining Role

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The Bitcoin Mining Council's Q3 report gave us some solid estimates to work with when quantifying Bitcoin's energy appetite, and the presentations gave a wonderfully lucid view into how miner financing, ASIC manufacturing, hashrate distribution, and other key mining dynamics are shifting as we near the new year. 

Bitcoin Mining Uses Less Energy Than Christmas Lights—A Breakdown of Bitcoin Mining Council's Q3 Report

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With Ethereum 2.0's launch delayed until next year, Ethereum developers are trying to disarm Ethereum's difficulty bomb yet again.

Ethereum Developers Delay Difficulty Bomb Until June 2022

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If you’re interested in mining bitcoin at home, here are some things you’ll want to consider before taking the plunge.

Bitcoin Home Mining Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Start Mining Bitcoin at Home

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Bitcoin miners in Mexico are using pig manure to power their mining rigs. No, seriously—they're turning pig crap into bitcoin hash.

Bitcoin Mining With Pig Manure: From Organic Disposal to Digital Currency

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The Ethereum ecosystem wants to make a transition to Proof-of-Stake. We think this is a mistake.

Ethereum's Proof-of-Work Works—Why Change It?  

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In our Q3 report, we take a look at the data to see how China's mining ban has affected Bitcoin's mining landscape so far.

Hashrate Index Q3 Mining Report: Quantifying China's Bitcoin Mining Ban

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In the wake of China's hashrate blackout, North American bitcoin miners are mining more bitcoin than ever.

Public Miners in North America See Record-Setting Q3

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Relay is a lightweight proxy server built to improve connections between Luxor Pool’s servers and pool participants, particularly those miners with weaker internet connections. The proxy can be run on a Raspberry Pi, equivalent hardware or in the cloud.

Luxor Releases Relay Proxy to Improve Bitcoin Miner Pool Connections

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The Chinese government just banned bitcoin-related activities for the umpteenth time, only these most recent orders are its most stringent and serious yet.

China Bans Bitcoin (Again), Reinforces Stance That Bitcoin Trading and Mining Are Illegal

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Ethereum is supposed to transition to Proof-of-Stake. If it does, what does this mean for Ethereum miners?

What Happens to Ethereum Mining If Ethereum Switches to Proof-of-Stake?

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What is off-grid mining, what kind of energy does it provide to bitcoin miners, and why would miners want to utilize off-grid energy?

What Is Off-Grid Bitcoin Mining?

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We've  partnered with CoinTracking to offer our miners automated tax reporting. Use our referral for 10% off CoinTracking's services!

Luxor Technologies Partners With CoinTracking for Automated Tax Reporting

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Prices for older generation ASICs like the S9 and M20 were flat over August, while newer generation machines rose.

ASIC Prices for S9s, Older Generation Hardware Stagnant in August as Others Rise

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Sign up using our referral code to receive 20% off CryptoTrader.Tax's services!

Luxor Technologies Partners With CryptoTrader.Tax for Automated Tax Reporting

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We expect Canada to be a top 3 mining hub in the world over the next decade as new entrants search for reliable, abundant power in countries with strong property rights and legal protections

Bitcoin Mining in Canada is Thriving Despite Stringent Regulations

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The bump to the current difficulty of 17.6 T is the third straight adjustment in a row, following the last two adjustments of 7.3% and 6%, respectively.

Bitcoin Difficulty Sees Second Largest Upward Adjustment of the Year

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You can now automate your Luxor mining taxes with Bitcoin Taxes; use our referral to receive 10% their services!

Luxor Technologies Partners With Bitcoin Taxes for Automated Tax Reporting

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In this guide, we break down the basics of reporting your mining profits to the U.S. IRS.

Crypto Mining Tax Guide: How Do I Report My Bitcoin Mining Taxes?

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Public miners in North America are raking in the profits following China's mining ban. 

North American Bitcoin Miners Cash In On China Hashrate Exodus in Q2

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Prices for new and second generation machines rose substantially over the month of July. Was June the bottom of the ASIC secondary market?

Bitcoin ASIC Prices Rebound from Yearly Lows

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A bi-partisan infrastructure bill includes provisions that define crypto "brokers" for taxation purposes, and miners might fit the bill's vague language if it stands.

What the Infrastructure Bill Means for Bitcoin Miners

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Hashrate Index's latest addition, The Crypto Mining Stock Index, aggregates over 50 mining or mining-related stocks.

Luxor Technologies Releases Crypto Mining Stock Index

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The energy authority in China is reminding grid operators to scan for mining activity, and many provinces have responded by scheduling inspections to clear out the remnant of miners in their regions.

Chinese Officials Make New Efforts to Shut Down Bitcoin Miners

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A miner has been advertising their blocks as "carbon negative." Here's a breakdown of what that means and what a "carbon negative" block looks like in practice.

What Is a “Carbon Negative” Block Anyway?

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Bitcoin miners earned just over 23,000 BTC in June as longer-than-normal block times cut deep into the mining reward emissions schedule.

Bitcoin Miners Earned 23K BTC in June, Down 27% From New Year

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Bitcoin's mining difficulty just saw its largest reduction ever, a historic event that reflects a watershed time in Bitcoin's mining industry as hashrate flees China for other countries.

Bitcoin Difficulty Adjustment Experiences 28% Drop, Largest Ever As Miners Exit China

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Bitcoin mining machines are free-falling in price following China's sweeping bans, and Hashrate Index is noticing substantial discrepancies in regional pricing in the areas that are most popular for relocation.

Bitcoin ASIC Prices Hit Hard In Response to China Ban

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The great Chinese hashrate diaspora has begun. As Chinese miners debate what to do next, where can we expect all of this hashrate to migrate, and what are the logistical barriers facing miners in exodus?

China Banned Bitcoin Mining—What Happens Now?

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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

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Introduction of SPAC and how it affects the mining industry.

Why Should Bitcoin Miners Care About SPACs?

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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.

How to Invest in Bitcoin Mining

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ASIC Liquidity Premium

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Bitcoin Mining Meets DeFi

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2020 Bitcoin Mining Recap

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

ASIC and Bitcoin Mining Purchasing Guide

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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.

5 Questions to Ask Your Hosting Provider

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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

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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

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

Limit Exposure to Altcoins, Stack Sats

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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

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End of the Mining Pool Era

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Is Bitcoin Cloud Mining Profitable?

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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.

Bitcoin Cloud Mining Guide: Scam or Legit?

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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

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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

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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

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

Hashrate Futures: Backwardation

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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

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