Category: Mining
Choosing the Best Ethereum Mining Pools: Beginners Guide
If you’ve decided to mine Ethereum before it switches to proof of stake you’ll need a few things to be successful. The first is obviously a strong Ethereum mining rig. Assuming you’ve already bought or built a rig for mining...
The Tax Implications of Home Crypto Mining: How Does it Work?
While it seems many U.S. citizens haven’t been paying taxes on their Bitcoin mining activity, it is important for you to know that mining bitcoin is not exempt from taxes in the U.S. It doesn’t matter if you’re mining specifically...
The Battle Against ASICs: Antminer Z9 Angers the Zcash Community
On May 3rd, Bitmain, the Bitcoin mining company behind ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) chips, announced the release of a new Antminer Z9 mini, an ASIC miner capable of mining any crypto currency running the Equihash proof-of-work algorithm, particularly Zcash. This...
The Economics of Home Mining: Is it Worth Your Time?
As cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin become increasingly popular many people have wondered if it’s worth their time to mine crypto at home. The real question though is whether it’s worth the investment to mine cryptocurrencies at home. Other than the time...
Setting Up An IOTA Node & Earning MIOTA: Step by Step Guide
IOTA is a unique distributed ledger technology which was born in 2014 out of a hardware initiative intended to support general distributed computing as the groundwork for the IoT infrastructure of inter-connected devices. The IOTA foundation is dedicated to developing industrial...
Start Mining Monero at Home with These Easy Steps
Even if you’ve just started in cryptocurrency you likely know that new Bitcoins are created through a process known as mining. You might not know that Bitcoin isn’t the only coin that can be mined – in fact there are...