Commentary
They Killed Free Energy — and Sold the World a Lie.
An opinion piece, not a hardware guide. It sits on this blog because the economics of energy are what mining runs on. If you came here...
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Setup & operations
How to Set Up a Bitmain Antminer: A Beginner-Proof Walkthrough
Read this before you plug anything in: an Antminer needs a 240 V circuit, a wired Ethernet connection, and power cords that are not in the...
October 14, 2025
Commentary
RCO Finance Scam: Tens of Millions Stolen From 24,000+ Users in Massive Crypto Fraud
What RCO Finance claimed to be In 2024–2025, RCO Finance promoted itself as a revolutionary AI-powered DeFi platform with “next-generation” trading bots and guaranteed profits. Its...
September 27, 2025
Mining basics
Quantum Computing and Bitcoin: What It Threatens, and Why It Is Not Your Miner
Quantum computing is a threat to Bitcoin's signatures. It is not a threat to Bitcoin mining. Those are two different pieces of cryptography doing two different...
August 22, 2025
Commentary
The Paradox of Control: Why Letting Go Can Propel Your Organization Forward
A note on what this is: an essay about running an organisation, not a mining guide. It sits on this blog because it is how we...
January 1, 2025
Mining basics
How Cryptocurrency Mining Works: A Beginner’s Guide
Bitcoin mining is a race to guess a number. That is the whole mechanism. Everything else — the warehouses, the noise, the electricity bills — exists...
June 8, 2024
Setup & operations
How to Choose a Mining Pool for a Bitcoin ASIC
For a Bitcoin ASIC miner, the pool decision comes down to one thing most guides skip: whether the pool pays you a share of transaction fees...
June 8, 2024
Setup & operations
What You Need to Start Mining Bitcoin: The Shopping List
You need four things to mine Bitcoin: a machine, a circuit big enough to feed it, somewhere the noise will not ruin your life, and a...
June 8, 2024
Mining basics
Bitcoin and Blockchain for Hardware Buyers: What a Block Really Is
A Bitcoin block is a list of transactions plus an 80-byte header, and your miner only ever touches the header. It changes four bytes of it,...
June 8, 2024
Mining economics
Cloud Mining vs Buying Your Own Miner: An Honest Comparison
Cloud mining sells you the output of a machine without the machine. That is the whole appeal — no noise, no electrician, no 3,250 W of...
June 8, 2024
Commentary
Mining Hardware vs DeFi Yield: Where the Return Comes From
Both of these turn capital into a yield, and they are not the same kind of yield. A miner earns because it produces something — hashes...
June 8, 2024
Mining economics
What Actually Moves Mining Margin: Five Levers, With the Arithmetic
Mining margin has exactly five levers, and they are not equally powerful. Your electricity rate does more than the other four combined. Everything else on this...
June 8, 2024