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Solo Mining
The first five minutes of a found block
If your rig finds a block, the next minutes decide whether it reaches the chain. What NexusPool does from the winning share on, and how you check it.
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Cloud Contracts
Cloud Contracts Versus ASIC Ownership Explained
Cloud contracts versus ASIC ownership changes who controls the machine, power costs, uptime claims, and the Bitcoin rewards your hashrate may earn, if any.
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Bitcoin Cash Mining
Bitcoin Cash Rose 29%. So Did Its Mining Difficulty
Bitcoin Cash jumped 29% on CME futures news, and its difficulty rose 30% within 36 hours. What that does to solo mining odds, with the chain's own numbers.
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Bitcoin Miners
Bitcoin Miner Privacy Tools That Actually Help
Bitcoin miner privacy tools reduce data exposure, but they do not replace self-custody, secure firmware, or a verifiable on-chain payout path for miners.
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Payout Preflight
BTCB2's 45-Day Coinbase Lock, By The Numbers
BTCB2 just locked mined coins for 45 days starting today. Here's the math behind that rule, and what it actually means for BTC, LTC, DOGE, and BCH miners.
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Mining Policy
Texas Froze Data Center Permits. What It Means for Miners
Texas halted all data center permits on September 21 pending a grid audit. What the freeze actually covers, and what it changes for Bitcoin miners.
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Payout Preflight
Stratum V2's Coinbase Bug Fixes: Do You Need To Act?
Stratum V2's reference implementation just patched coinbase bugs that could invalidate a found block. Run the checklist to see if your setup is affected.
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Mining Custody
Mining Custody Means Control of Your Reward
Mining custody determines who can control a block reward. Learn to verify before connecting to a pool endpoint and why it does not change your odds at all.
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Bitcoin Difficulty
Bitcoin Difficulty Retarget: What It Cost Solo Miners
Bitcoin difficulty rose 4.16% on September 19 while BTC cleared $85,000. Here is what both did to hashprice, and the one number that did not move.
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Non-Custodial Mining
BitMEX's Last Days: An 11-Year Custodian Closes
BitMEX shuts down September 23 with a clean 11-year security record intact. Its closure shows custodial risk is bigger than just getting hacked.
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Decentralization
Mining Decentralization Starts With Your Payout
Mining decentralization is not a slogan. It means fewer trust points between your rig, a valid block, and the address that receives its reward on-chain.
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Non-Custodial Mining
Blink Wallet Hack: Custodial Myth vs Reality
Blink Wallet's breach drained custodial accounts but left its non-custodial Spark accounts untouched. Here is what that split actually proves.
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Glass Ledger
iPhone Wallet Key Theft: What To Do, In Order
A full-chain iOS exploit can silently pull crypto wallet keys from Safari alone. Here is the order of checks and fixes to run right now.
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Home Miner
Home ASIC Security Checklist: 12 Checks That Matter
Use this home ASIC security checklist to protect your miner, payout address, local network, and recovery path without adding security theater or trust.
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Self-Custody
D'CENT Wallet Hack: The Numbers That Decide Your Exposure
D'CENT's report narrows the app wallet hack to versions before 8.1.0 and addresses that signed. The numbers, and what they mean for a mining payout address.
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Self-Custody
D'CENT Wallet Hack: Find Every Copy of Your Seed Phrase
The D'CENT app wallet hack drained 2.01M XRP from 1,552 wallets. A seven-step audit to find every copy of your seed phrase, mining payout address included.
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Job Declaration
Can ASICs Negotiate Jobs? What Miners Control
Can ASICs negotiate jobs? Learn what your miner, firmware, and pool control in Stratum V1 and V2, and how to verify where block-template authority sits.
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Glass Ledger
The Bitcoin Reserve Bill's Custody Promise vs Reality
H.R. 8957 advanced 28-21 and would hold Bitcoin in federal custody for 20 years with an annual audit. What that proof covers, and what it does not.
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Glass Ledger
What a Lightning Node Bug Teaches Solo Miners
A Core Lightning bug tied to reported fund losses shows why self-custody means checking your own software, not just running it. What the advisory says.
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Stratum V2
Can Bitaxe Use Stratum V2? What Decides It
Can Bitaxe use Stratum V2? Check whether AxeOS, your pool endpoint, and your settings support native encrypted mining before changing protocols on purpose.
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Bitcoin Mining News
El Reno's Bitcoin Mine Leak: The Questions Worth Asking
A Bitcoin mining site in El Reno, Oklahoma leaked 3.8 million gallons and closed schools. What caused it, why it kept running, what it means for home miners.
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Glass Ledger
A Mining Pool's Bankruptcy, By the Numbers
A pool that once ranked among Bitcoin's biggest owes $173.1M in Chapter 11, mostly to frozen wallet holders. What the numbers mean for your pool.
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CLARITY Act
CLARITY Act Failed: What Bitcoin Miners Still Have
The Senate blocked the CLARITY Act 49-50. See which mining protections died with it, what stays legal, and five checks for your own payout path.
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Bitaxe Mining
A Bitaxe Mining Example With Real Solo Math
Use this Bitaxe mining example to connect a solo miner, read share difficulty, calculate block odds, and verify where a solved block pays directly on-chain.
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Bitcoin Mining
Ethiopia's Bitcoin Mining Power Cut: What Hashrate Shows
Ethiopia's utility now delivers about 23% of contracted power to Bitcoin miners. We check it against difficulty data and what it means for solo odds.
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