Inside the Zynq FPGA: How an Antminer Control Board Talks to Its Hashboards
Open up any S9-through-S19-era Antminer control board and the biggest chip on it isn’t just a CPU — it’s a Xilinx Zynq, a hybrid part…
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Mining knowledge, repair guides, and industry insights from the workshop floor.
GPUs Are the New ASICs: Why AI Compute Will Decentralize Like Bitcoin Mining
AI compute is running the same concentrate-burn-distribute cycle as Bitcoin mining. GPUs go obsolete like ASICs, over-leveraged operators get burned, and the compute trickles down to the edge — ending in sovereign home mining and home AI inference.
Poolin’s Bankruptcy and the End of Mining as a Business
Poolin, once Bitcoin’s largest mining pool, filed Chapter 11 owing $163.7M in frozen IOUs to 11,700 customers. Why mining as a standalone business failed — and why dual-purpose mining is the decentralized future.
Nostr Standardized Tags Reference: The e, p, a, d and Named Tags, by NIP
A Nostr event has three moving parts: its kind (what type of thing it is), its content (the payload), and its tags (structured metadata that…
bitcoin.conf Reference: Configuring Your Node for Sovereignty and Solo Mining
If the RPC interface is how you talk to your Bitcoin node, bitcoin.conf is how you shape it — the settings file that decides how…
Meshtastic Channel URL Reference: What a Shared Channel Link Actually Contains
When someone shares a Meshtastic channel, they send you a link like https://meshtastic.org/e/#<data> — or the QR code that encodes the same thing. That link…
Bitcoin Core RPC Reference for Miners and Node Operators
When you run your own Bitcoin node — the foundation of solo mining and of not trusting anyone else’s copy of the ledger — you…
Antminer Hashboard EEPROM Reference: Parser Families, Layout, and Why Boards Aren’t Interchangeable
Every Antminer hashboard carries a small I²C EEPROM that answers one question for the control board: which board is this, and how was it tuned?…
Antminer NAND Flash: Boot Chain, Corruption Symptoms, and Recovery
When an Antminer refuses to boot — no web interface, no hashing, sometimes not even a network light — the diagnosis often ends at two…
The Definitive Bitaxe Overclocking Manual: Every Model, Every Setting, Maximum Hashrate
Solo mining is a numbers game. Your Bitaxe is hashing against the entire Bitcoin network — roughly 800+ EH/s of combined computational power.
Open-Source Bitcoin Miners Comparison 2026: Bitaxe, NerdAxe, NerdQAxe & More
The entire history of Bitcoin mining hardware has been a story of centralization. A handful of manufacturers, behind closed doors, designing chips and machines that only they control.
Pool Mining vs Solo Mining: The Complete Decision Guide 2026
Every Bitcoin miner faces a fundamental decision before their first hash is computed: pool mining or solo mining? This choice shapes your economics, your privacy, your relationship with the…
Bitcoin Space Heater vs Electric Heater: The Complete 5-Year Cost Comparison
Yes. Both devices convert 100% of consumed electricity into heat — this is dictated by the first law of thermodynamics.
Micro-Hydro Bitcoin Mining on a Homestead: 24/7 Baseload, Done Right
Of every renewable resource a homesteader can tap, running water is the one that behaves most like the grid. Solar quits at sundown. Wind comes…
Wind Turbine Home Bitcoin Mining: Sizing, Math & the Honest Limits
Wind gets pitched as the obvious next step after solar panels: free fuel, a tower in the back forty, and an ASIC humming through the…
Bitcoin Mining Legality Explained: Energy, Tax, and the Global Spectrum
Is Bitcoin mining legal? In most countries the act is legal – what is regulated is grid power and tax. Read the global spectrum and assess your own jurisdiction.
ASIC Operating Temperature Guide: Throttle, Shutdown & Intake Limits
What ASIC max-chip, intake, throttle and shutdown temperatures mean, how firmware throttling de-rates hashrate, how to read temp telemetry, and the intake to target.
Pool Failover & Backup-Pool Configuration: A Practical Setup Guide
Set up primary, secondary and tertiary mining pools across stock Bitmain, BraiinsOS+ and AxeOS — plus how to spot a silent failover before it costs you.
Three-Phase Power and Power Quality for ASIC Hashcenters
Scaling a Bitcoin hashcenter past a few rigs: three-phase service, harmonics and power factor from ASIC PSUs, the NEC 80% rule, and PDU selection.
ASIC Hashboard Reflow Profile Reference (SAC305 + Aluminum-Substrate Adjustment)
Four-stage SAC305 reflow profile for ASIC hashboard rework: preheat, soak, peak, cooling, plus the aluminum-substrate adjustments FR4 profiles miss.
Hashboard Serial-Chain Signal-Integrity Diagnosis: Clock & Reset Chain Debugging
How to diagnose a broken BM13xx hashboard serial chain: scope the clock and reset signals, read the chip count, and bisect to the first failing ASIC.
Counterfeit, Remarked & Recycled ASIC Chip Detection — A Bench Authentication Guide
How buyers and repair shops spot counterfeit, remarked, and recycled mining ASIC chips: microscope, solvent rub, date-code logic, and electrical binning.
The DCENT Suite Goes Public: Four Open Repos and the First DCENT_OS Beta Images
Yesterday we flipped the biggest switch in D-Central’s history as a software builder: the DCENT_OS public beta is live, with the first signed, downloadable firmware…
Selling on Nostr: NIP-15 Marketplaces and Bitcoin-Native Commerce
How NIP-15 Nostr marketplaces work: stall/product events, the order-payment flow, Shopstr and Plebeian Market, and pairing with Lightning and BTCPay.
SBI Crypto Is Shutting Down Its Mining Pool: How to Migrate Your Miners Before July 30
SBI Crypto closes its public Bitcoin mining pool on July 30, 2026, sending ~2% of network hashrate looking for a new home. Step-by-step migration guide: withdraw balances, repoint stratum URLs, verify shares, and compare payout schemes.
NixOS for Sovereign Bitcoiners: A Declarative, Reproducible Node + Local-AI Server
NixOS for sovereign Bitcoiners: a declarative, reproducible node plus local AI, Tor and a Nostr relay in one config, with atomic rollbacks.
Private Messaging for Bitcoiners: SimpleX, Briar, Signal & Nostr DMs
SimpleX, Briar, Signal, and Nostr DMs compared by threat model: content vs metadata vs social graph. A neutral privacy messaging guide for Bitcoiners.
Tor vs I2P vs Clearnet for Your Bitcoin Node: A Network-Privacy Decision Guide
Clearnet vs Tor vs I2P for your Bitcoin node: real trade-offs on latency, eclipse attacks, and censorship, plus bitcoin.conf snippets to run all three.
Nostr Data Vending Machines (NIP-90): The Decentralized AI & Compute Marketplace
How Nostr Data Vending Machines (NIP-90) work: job-kind events, the Lightning-zap payment loop, DVMs vs centralized AI vs DePIN, and running your own.
Run Your Miner Off Solar and Battery: State-of-Charge-Driven Mining
Tune your miner to watts, not hashrate, and tie that budget to your battery state of charge. A practical playbook for solar and battery (SoC-driven) mining.
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Last reviewed July 10, 2026.