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Bitcoin mining and ASIC basics: how it works, why it matters.
⚡ASIC Machines
Complete Bitcoin ASIC catalog: Bitmain Antminer S21, S23, MicroBT and more.
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🏭Hosted Mining
What a hosted plan includes: electricity, cooling, maintenance, contracts.
📊Costs and Profitability
Calculate ROI, understand electricity costs and real margins.
🌐Mining Pools
How pools work, choosing a pool, payout schemes (FPPS, PPLNS).
🔧Technical
Difficulty, SHA-256, firmware, OS configuration — going deeper.
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All articles →Stratum Jobs and clean_jobs
A Stratum job is a work contract, and the clean_jobs flag revokes it. The five causes of invalidation and what you can actually fix.
Causes of Rejected Shares
Stale, duplicate, target not met, drifted clock: the four families of rejects, how to tell them apart in a dashboard, and the procedure to isolate the cause.
Miner Uptime and Drops: Maximizing Operating Time
Useful uptime is the time a machine hashes work the pool accepts. The six links in the chain, and the method for finding which one broke.
Clock, Voltage, and Overclocking Risks
Clock and voltage are set together or not at all. The six concrete risks of an off-envelope profile, and the procedure for testing a change without losing a board.
Heat, Airflow, and Thermal Derating
An ASIC turns nearly all its electricity into heat. Bad airflow makes firmware derate and the sticker hashrate disappears. How to spot the cause and fix it.
ASIC Cooling: Air, Hydro, and Immersion
Air, hydro and immersion each move the constraint somewhere else: noise, water, chemistry, building. The concrete criteria for deciding on your site.