Bitcoin Mining

Home miners running small ASIC devices have found full Bitcoin blocks worth hundreds of thousands of dollars each. This page documents every…

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Bitcoin Mining

Last summer I watched a solo miner with just 500 GH/s hit a Bitcoin block worth $260K. The cool part is: that miner didn't just win the lott…

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ASIC Miners

Okay, so I need to be completely honest upfront — I don't actually own an Antminer S21. At 13, my budget is more "Bitaxe and NerdMiner" terr…

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Bitcoin Mining

TL;DR: The FutureBit Apollo II delivers around 2.5 TH/s of Bitcoin mining power while running a complete Bitcoin full node. It's not going t…

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ASIC Miners

Bitcoin Cash uses the same SHA-256 algorithm as Bitcoin, which means the same ASICs work for both. The data shows that BCH's lower network d…

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Bitcoin Mining

Running your own full node to solo mine Bitcoin is about as pure as cryptocurrency mining gets. No pools, no middlemen, no sharing rewards. …

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Bitcoin Mining

Setting up CKPool for solo Bitcoin mining isn't as complicated as it sounds, but it does require getting the configuration exactly right. I'…

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Bitcoin Mining

Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment is probably the single most important number you'll track as a solo miner. Not your hashrate. Not the block …

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