This guide explores immersion-cooled Bitcoin mining, explains why effective cooling is critical, compares immersion cooling with traditional air-cooled systems, and outlines the main immersion deployment methods used today. Learning Objectives After reading this report, you will be able to: Understand what immersion-cooled Bitcoin mining is and how it differs from air-cooled mining Recognize why heat […]
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Adding Two Mining Addresses or Pools
It depends on your mining setup and goals. Here are some scenarios where adding two mining addresses (or pools) can be beneficial: Reasons to Add Two Mining Addresses: Failover (Backup Pool): If your primary mining pool goes down, your miner will automatically switch to the second one, preventing downtime. Load Balancing: Some miners configure two […]
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Should You Add Two Mining Addresses to Your ASIC Miner? As cryptocurrency mining continues to evolve, miners are constantly looking for ways to optimize their performance and earnings. One common strategy is configuring ASIC miners with two or more mining addresses. But is this approach beneficial? In this article, we’ll explore the advantages, disadvantages, statistics, […]
Continue ReadingKYC is Becoming a Key Legal Requirement for Mining Pool Providers
As the cryptocurrency industry matures, governments and regulatory bodies worldwide are increasingly focusing on Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance. While exchanges and wallet providers have long been subject to stringent KYC and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations, mining pool operators are now facing similar scrutiny. Mining pools play a crucial role in securing blockchain networks and […]
Continue ReadingWhat is a Mempool?
What is a Mempool? The mempool, short for memory pool, is a crucial component of a blockchain network, especially for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others. It is a temporary storage area for unconfirmed transactions that have been broadcast to the network but have not yet been added to a block on the blockchain. Essentially, […]
Continue ReadingHow To Set up CGMiner
Setting up CGMiner to mine various cryptocurrencies depends on the specific algorithm used by each coin. I’ll walk you through a general process and then show you how to configure CGMiner for the most common coins. General Setup for CGMiner Download and Install CGMiner: First, download the latest version of CGMiner from GitHub or other […]
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CGMiner is a popular mining software primarily designed for ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) and FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays). It supports mining for a wide variety of cryptocurrencies, primarily those that use SHA-256, Scrypt, or other algorithms that ASICs are built to mine. Some of the cryptocurrencies CGMiner can mine include: Start Mining Bitcoin (BTC) Algorithm: […]
Continue ReadingWD Green vs Blue
What Are the Difference Between Them? Western Digital (WD) offers different series of hard drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs), and two of their popular series are WD Green and WD Blue. The main differences between these two lie in their intended use cases, performance, power consumption, and price. WD Green Target Use: WD Green […]
Continue ReadingMicrosoft Finally, Officially Pulls the Plug on Internet Explorer
Happy Valentine’s Day — Internet Explorer is now dead. After announcing it would phase out the legacy browser last year, Microsoft announced that it permanently disabled Internet Explorer 11 on consumer versions of Windows 10. The browser was available on Windows 10 previously, despite Microsoft noting that it was “retired” and “out of support.” Windows […]
Continue ReadingEBay Will Cut 4% of Its Workforce
EBay Inc. is cutting about 500 employees — or 4% of its workforce — as the e-commerce company continues to face slower consumer spending after a brief pandemic boom. The reductions are in response to the “macroeconomic situation around the world,” Chief Executive Officer Jamie Iannone said Tuesday in a statement, and are necessary to […]
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