Hardware & repair
Why Your Miner Is Earning Less: Diagnosing ASIC Faults
Miners fail in a small number of predictable ways, and the machine almost never tells you plainly that something is wrong. It keeps running, quietly earning...
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Mining economics
Why We Don’t Publish Crypto Price Predictions
We do not publish cryptocurrency price predictions, and this page used to. It carried a table of price targets for Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin, Cardano, Radix...
June 8, 2024
Mining basics
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 matters if you are about to...
June 8, 2024
Mining basics
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 — and that is the beginning...
June 8, 2024
Mining economics
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 per day — and that is...
June 8, 2024
Mining basics
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 authority — the only way a...
June 8, 2024
Mining economics
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 an exchange order book, and it...
June 8, 2024
Mining economics
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 move the most size, and in...
June 8, 2024