What Is ArkPool?
Since Bitcoin mining is now an industrial-level operation, with the vast majority of hash rate coming from large-scale operations, it’s natural that the ecosystem and accompanying software would focus on the largest market share. Most Bitcoin mining pools are built for people with serious hashrate. A hobbyist running a Bitaxe at roughly 500 GH/s is, […]
Why Hashing Algorithm Changes Don’t Stop Centralised Mining
When the BLAKE2b hard fork split from Bitcoin, one of its core selling points was democratising mining by abandoning SHA-256d for an algorithm that’s friendlier to CPUs and GPUs; the change promised to sideline the industrial ASIC farms that dominate Bitcoin mining and hand the network back to ordinary miners with consumer hardware. It’s a […]
Parasite Pool Preys On Its First Blocks
On April 18, 2026, Parasite Pool achieved something remarkable and now forms part of Bitcoin history and it’s expanding lore. The little mining pool that could has mined its second Bitcoin block in just 14 months of operation. That block, #945,601, arrived approximately 48 days after the pool’s first block in late February 2026. Two […]
What Is The Bitaxe Touch Solo Miner?
Bitcoin mining has had some rather dramatic twists over the past decade. Mining started out as a CPU and later GPU-powered niche community, and has transformed into a multibillion-dollar industrial sector, characterised by extreme political shifts with countries taking a positive or negative stance, massive energy consumption debates, wildcat explorers onboarding new energy sources or […]
What Is Parasite Pool?
The Bitcoin mining landscape is experiencing a quiet revolution this cycle. While corporate miners consolidate around predictable payout models, a counterculture of “pleb miners” is emerging with the help of open-source mining projects—hobbyists running Nerd Miners, NerdAxes, and BitAxe miners next to their Raspberry Pi nodes, enthusiasts heating their homes with ASICs, and privacy-conscious bitcoiners […]
How Bitcoin Mining Can Power Water Desalination
If Greenpeace and Greta Thunberg are to be believed, then Bitcoin mining is a net negative in getting to net zero, as we boil the Oceans in exchange for magic internet money. Environmental advocates claim that Bitcoin’s sin is that it uses fossil fuels and encourages more usage through its demand for electricity. And that […]
What Is Solo Bitcoin Mining?
In the early days of Bitcoin, anyone with a laptop could mine blocks from their bedroom and earn the block reward. Even as the move towards GPU mining, it was still possible for the average miner to compete from their bedroom. But things have changed drastically with the industrialisation of Bitcoin mining. Today, Bitcoin miners […]
Bitcoin Hashrate Reaches 1 Zetahash
Despite the drama surrounding the release of Core 30 and the fact that Bitcoin continues to hover above $ 100,000, this latest bull cycle has been relatively uneventful. The news cycle has been slow, and the arguments on Twitter have been far less entertaining when compared to previous cycles. Despite the lull, Bitcoin chugs on […]
Foundry Starts Merge Mining Rootstock
The Bitcoin ecosystem has taken steps to extend its reach beyond the base chain and its limited capacity; while a lot of focus remains on layer two solutions like Lightning, it’s not the only method of moving Bitcoin from one use to another without touching the chain. Another option is to use a side-chain, like […]
Why Bitcoin Miners Are Buying Bitcoin
MicroStrategy (MSTR), the software company founded by Michael Saylor, is the first to adopt a Bitcoin treasury policy, and it’s done wonders for his share price and the growth of his business. He has set the stage for corporate involvement in Bitcoin from companies that don’t directly work in this space, and a few have […]