Mining
Mining equipment, power math, and proof-system explainers.
Compare ASIC mining equipment, electricity costs, heat output, and the proof mechanisms behind major chains.
ASIC miner equipment guides
Bitmain Antminer S21 XP: air-cooled Bitcoin mining power, cost, and heat
A practical guide to 270 TH/s hashrate, 3645W power draw, electricity-cost math, circuit planning, and heat control.
9 min readMining EquipmentBitmain Antminer S21 XP+ Hyd: hydro Bitcoin mining at 480 TH/s
How the hydro S21 XP+ Hyd changes the power, coolant-loop, heat-rejection, and profit math for Bitcoin miners.
9 min readMining EquipmentBitmain Antminer L9: Scrypt mining for Litecoin and Dogecoin
A Scrypt ASIC guide covering 16 GH/s, merged-mining payouts, electricity cost, host-computer needs, and heat output.
8 min readMining EquipmentMicroBT WhatsMiner M63S: hydro ASIC economics at 408 TH/s
A hydro-miner walkthrough of 408T hashrate, 18 J/T efficiency, implied 7344W draw, and cooling-loop infrastructure.
8 min readMining EquipmentCanaan Avalon Miner A16XP-300T: compact SHA-256 efficiency guide
A Canaan ASIC guide covering 300T hashrate, 3850W draw, power-cost break-even, airflow, and heat output.
8 min readPower, heat, and efficiency comparisons
Bitmain Antminer S21 XP
A high-efficiency air-cooled Bitcoin ASIC for operators with strong power delivery, airflow, and noise tolerance.
270 TH/s / 3645WSHA-256 HydroBitmain Antminer S21 XP+ Hyd
A hydro-cooled SHA-256 miner built for dense deployments where the operator can handle coolant loops and heat rejection.
480 TH/s / 5280WScrypt AirBitmain Antminer L9
A Scrypt ASIC for Litecoin and Dogecoin merged-mining economics rather than Bitcoin hashprice modeling.
16 GH/s / 3360WROI models before hardware orders
Bitcoin mining ROI calculator
Estimate daily gross revenue, electricity cost, breakeven hashprice, heat output, and simple hardware payback.
Interactive toolMining FinanceBitcoin mining profitability model: hashprice, power, uptime, and payback
A practical model for translating ASIC hashrate into daily revenue, electricity cost, breakeven hashprice, and simple hardware payback.
9 min readMining FinanceASIC electricity break-even guide: kWh cost, J/T efficiency, and heat load
How to compare ASIC efficiency, power rates, thermal load, circuit requirements, and break-even revenue before buying mining hardware.
8 min readConsensus and mining explainers
Proof of Work: mining as blockchain security
How Bitcoin-style mining turns hashes, difficulty, hardware, and energy into a costly signal for chain security.
Consensus guideProof SystemsProof of Stake: validators, staking, and slashing
How PoS chains use staked capital, validator selection, attestations, rewards, and penalties instead of mining.
Consensus guideProof SystemsProof of History: Solana's cryptographic clock
Why Solana's Proof of History helps order events before consensus and how it fits into the network's validator stack.
Chain guideProof SystemsProof of Space and Time: Chia farming explained
How storage capacity and verifiable time replace constant hashing in Chia's proof-of-space-and-time model.
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