Anyone who has been GPU mining in 2022 has felt the pinch. Difficulty is rising and the price of Ethereum is dropping, among other things. You might be starting to wonder if building that farm was worth it. But the mining calculator says you’re still in the green, so as…

It’s great to see all these new miners, it feels like 2017 all over again. Mining at a small scale is a fun hobby. …

Why protecting the independent mining community with ProgPoW and similar initiatives is good for decentralization and for crypto. — Viewing cryptocurrency miners as a problem to solve instead of a resource to tap is the greatest failure of imagination in the space today. It is remarkable given the ethos of decentralization and the level of passion and investment from the mining community. …

Why protecting the independent mining community with ProgPoW and similar initiatives is good for decentralization and for crypto. — Viewing cryptocurrency miners as a problem to solve instead of a resource to tap is the greatest failure of imagination in the space today. It is remarkable given the ethos of decentralization and the level of passion and investment from the mining community. So how did these early-adopters become…

In almost every interaction I have with a new client, ASICs are inevitably one of the first mining rig hardware options discussed. Understandably so, as the value proposition is so straightforward. ASICs, short for application specific integrated circuits, are purpose-built to do one thing and one thing only: mine a…