Bitcoin
Bitcoin Coinbase Structure Guide for Solo Miners
Bitcoin coinbase structure guide for solo miners: see how block rewards, fees, payout outputs, extranonce data, and maturity work before a block is found.
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Mining Economics
Bitcoin Difficulty Barely Moved: What the Numbers Mean
Bitcoin's October 3 difficulty retarget was the smallest move of 2026, just 0.03%. What that and September's mining revenue mean for your solo odds.
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Self-Custody
MetaMask's Incident: What Non-Custodial Doesn't Cover
MetaMask's September 30 infrastructure incident forced a validator exit while wallets stayed safe. What non-custodial promises, and what it doesn't.
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home miners
Best Lottery Mining Hardware for Home Miners
Choose the best lottery mining hardware by checking hash rate, wall power, noise, firmware, and the solo pool connection before you buy a rig for home use.
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Self-Custody
The SEC's New Crypto Custody Rule: Myth vs Reality
The SEC proposed new crypto custody rules on Oct. 1, 2026. What the proposal actually changes for investment advisers, measured against the headlines.
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Stratum V1
How to Connect Legacy ASICs Over Stratum
Connect legacy ASICs over Stratum with a Bitcoin address, set the right endpoint, check your payout path, and know what old firmware can and cannot do.
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Security
Q3 2026's $1.26B in Crypto Hacks, By the Numbers
CertiK counted $1.26 billion lost to crypto hacks in Q3 2026, up 53.9% on Q2. Here is what the numbers show about custodial risk for miners.
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NexusPool
NexusPool 0.10.26.5: The Best Solo Bitcoin Pool We Have Ever Made
NexusPool 0.10.26.5, the best Solo Bitcoin Pool we have ever made: five places from rig to block, all changed since 0.9.26. 0% fee on the Bitcoin pool.
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Stratum translator
Stratum Translator Versus Native Connections
Stratum translator versus native connections explains what your miner sends, where encryption ends, and how to choose the right setup before mining.
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Dogecoin
Dogecoin Block Reward Cut: Myth vs Reality
A GitHub discussion would cut Dogecoin's block reward 90%. Here is what that would do to the Litecoin merged mining behind it, myth by myth, with the numbers.
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Stratum V2
How Silent Payments Could Reach Mining Payouts
Bitcoin developers are designing a way to pay silent payment addresses inside a mining coinbase over Stratum V2. Here's the plain four-step mechanism.
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Secure ASIC connections
Secure ASIC Connections: What Your Rig Can Check
Secure ASIC connections protect the path from your rig to a found block. Learn what to check in Stratum V1 and encrypted Stratum V2 on Bitcoin.
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Security
Bitget Hack Explained: Fake Orders, Real Signatures
Bitget says a flaw in a third-party security product let an attacker send fake withdrawals. See the timeline, the gas-limit tell and what a miner can check.
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Bitaxe
Bitfortun BS-1 Hashrate: The 400 GH/s Screen Offset
Bitfortun's published BS-1 firmware still adds 400 GH/s to the number on its screen. Here is how to check your rig's real hashrate against your pool's record.
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Solo Miners
Share Validation Guide for Bitcoin Solo Miners
This share validation guide explains what your miner submits, why shares fail, and how to check that valid work reached the pool unchanged.
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Bitcoin Mining
Bitcoin Hashrate Drops: What It Means for Solo Miners
Bitcoin's hashrate hit a three-week low as big miners pivot to AI. Here's the actual math on what a smaller network means, and doesn't mean, for solo mining.
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Mining Pools
Are Mining Pools Custodial? It Depends on Payouts
Are mining pools custodial? Learn where control sits, how payout design changes the answer, and what a miner can verify before connecting a mining rig.
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Bitcoin Mining
Texas Data Center Permit Freeze: What Bitcoin Miners Face
Texas paused new data center permits until an ERCOT audit ends. Here is the timeline, step by step, and what it means for Bitcoin mining in the state.
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Solo Block
Solo Block Discovery Guide for Home Miners
This solo block discovery guide explains setup, real odds, payout addresses, share checks, and what to verify before your miner begins hashing for real.
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Self-Custody
Brazil's $10K Self-Custody Rule: Myth vs Reality
Brazil now requires reporting on crypto transfers of $10,000 or more tied to self-custody wallets. Here is what the new rule actually does, and does not do.
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NexusPool
Mining Transparency Means Proof Before Trust
Mining transparency means checking custody, share records, and block handling before you point a miner at a pool. Here is how proof looks in practice.
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Security
Duelbits Lost $7 Million. Check Your Own Wallets Against It
Duelbits went offline after a $7M hot-wallet hack. Run this checklist on every platform holding your crypto, including a mining pool.
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Security
Bitget's $351M Hack: The Balance That Wasn't There
Bitget lost $351.6M in a hot-wallet hack, no private keys touched. What a non-custodial, coinbase-paid payout looks like instead.
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Mining Variance
Mining Variance Management Guide for Solo Miners
Mining variance management guide for solo miners. Set honest expectations, track work, limit failures, and verify where any block reward lands on-chain.
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Bitcoin Mining
Bitcoin Mining Pool Concentration: What It Means for You
Two mining pools now build nearly half of all Bitcoin blocks. Here is what that concentration changes for miners and solo miners, and what it never changes.
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