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Bitcoin Mining Blog

Mining knowledge, repair guides, and industry insights from the workshop floor.

Antminer

Antminer S9: Is It Still Worth Mining in 2026?

As we approach 2025, the question of whether older Bitcoin mining hardware, such as the Antminer S9, still holds value remains a topic of debate within the cryptocurrency community.

AI

LM Studio vs Ollama vs llama.cpp: Which Runner for Plebs?

Three excellent open-source runners. Three different plebs. llama.cpp is the foundation Gerganov built. Ollama wraps it for daemon simplicity. LM Studio wraps it in a polished GUI. Here’s the 15-minute decision guide.

AI

Heating Your Home With Inference, Not Just Hashing

Bitcoin ASICs dump nearly all their power as heat — which is why mining heaters are a category. GPUs doing LLM inference follow the same thermodynamics. If you’re going to heat your home electrically, you may as well be running Llama 3.1 too.

ASIC Hardware

Are You a Bitcoin Miner or Just Throwing Away Money?

Are you still paying sky-high hosting fees just to let your mining heat vanish into thin air? For many Bitcoin miners, hefty monthly invoices and wasted energy are part of the “business…

AI

BTC-AI Public Companies: The Hashcenter-to-Tokens Pivot

Hut 8, Core Scientific, IREN, and TeraWulf are leaving Bitcoin Hashcenters to become AI datacenter operators. It’s a rational pivot for public companies — and it makes sovereign AI on pleb-owned hardware more important, not less.

AI

Open WebUI: The ChatGPT Experience, But Yours

The terminal is fine for testing, unusable for daily driving. Open WebUI is the ChatGPT-style interface that plugs into your local Ollama — multi-user, RAG, web search, reachable from anywhere over Tailscale. One Docker command; your Hashcenter becomes your private ChatGPT.

AI

ComfyUI for Plebs: Your First Local Image Generation

You installed Ollama and got local chat. Time for local image generation. ComfyUI runs SDXL, SD 3.5, and FLUX.1 on hardware you already own — the Midjourney/DALL-E subscription you can cancel. Here’s the pleb on-ramp.

ASIC Hardware

Unleash 2.5 TH/s Power with NerdQaxe+

The evolution of Bitcoin mining has been profoundly influenced by the principles of open-source development. Open-source projects have democratized access to mining technology, allowing…

Bitcoin mining

How the Seasons Change Your Home Bitcoin Mining Operation

Your mining operation isn’t the same machine in January as it is in July. Temperature, humidity, and power cost all swing with the calendar — quietly rewriting your hashrate and bill. Run it as the seasonal system it actually is.

Bitcoin mining

Does 5G Actually Help Home Bitcoin Mining? An Honest Answer

“5G-ready miners” and “5G-optimized pools” are marketing fog. Bitcoin mining is a problem of computation and electricity, not bandwidth. Here’s the honest answer — including the one real case where 5G genuinely matters.

Bitcoin mining

Repurposing Old Hardware for Bitcoin Mining: Is It Worth It?

Can you point an old gaming PC, GPU, or a dusty Antminer S9 at Bitcoin and earn anything? The honest answer separates a hard “no” from a real, defensible “yes” — and it depends entirely on what counts as “worth it.”

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Last reviewed May 16, 2026.