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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What Is DATUM?
Let’s take a journey back to Bitcoin’s early days, when mining was a solitary pursuit. The Bitcoin core of yesteryear was all-encompassing, serving as the mining and node runner. Nodes, in their dual role, acted as both miners creating blocks and keepers of the ledger. It worked and made sense at the time of bootstrapping […]
What Is A Braiins Mini Miner?
Pleb mining has had a bit of a renaissance in recent years, with lottery mining devices hitting the market. The Avalon Nano, Nerdminer and BitAxe have carved out quite a following among Bitcoin enthusiasts, and these projects are starting to gather momentum. We’ve already seen a few upgrades to the BitAxe, and soon SolarBit should […]
A BitAxe Miner Nets A Block
The Bitcoin network is one hungry hippo for hash rate; it currently gobbles up 645.9 EH/s, and it will keep ticking up as more miners come online, as current miners expand their operations and as ASICS is improved to produce more hashes for a unit of power. The production of hash rate is an industrial-scale […]
Why Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting To AI
Bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence (AI), while both being tech sector businesses, seem like entirely different beasts on the surface. As AI investment and companies have grown in the last four years, we’ve seen its hunger for resources grow exponentially. According to reports by the International Energy Agency, current data centre energy usage stood at […]