What Is Bitcoin? And What Mining Actually Does
Bitcoin is a ledger that nobody owns, kept honest by machines competing to guess numbers. That sentence contains everything that…
Mining Bitcoin Cash With SHA-256 Hardware: What It Pays and What It Risks
Bitcoin Cash uses SHA-256, which means the machine that mines Bitcoin can mine Bitcoin Cash without a single hardware change…
What a Miner Actually Earns: Hashprice Explained
A miner does not earn bitcoin. A miner earns hashprice — the amount the network pays per unit of hashrate…
Where New Bitcoins Come From: The Block Subsidy, the Halving and the 21 Million Cap
Every bitcoin in existence was paid to a miner. There is no other source. No pre-mine, no treasury, no issuing…
How Cryptocurrency Prices Are Actually Set: Order Books, Liquidity and Demand
A cryptocurrency’s price is not a value someone calculates. It is simply the price of the most recent trade on…
Who Actually Moves a Coin’s Price: Whales, Leverage and Thin Order Books
In a thin market, the price is not set by the crowd. It is set by whoever is willing to…