As cryptocurrency mining becomes more popular, or merely more present in the public ethos, there’s been a number of sensationalist, clickbait headlines about the perils and societal pushbacks related to engaging in this modern gold rush. These headlines, whether meant to instill fear, uncertainty and doubt (“FUD” in the common…

Last night Bitmain announced that a new miner, the Blake2b-mining Antminer A3, is now available for sale. This beats the Obelisk.tech SC1 miner — being designed and manufactured in partnership with the Sia development team — to market by almost four months. While surprisingly a less efficient miner, Bitmain’s head…

Kodak has long made profits from licensing out their brand to third party companies. Scrambling to stay relevant as the poster child for not adapting to technological sea changes, they have recently expanded their brand portfolio to blockchain companies to great success; at the time of writing KODK is up…

As you might have read, we at the Miners’ Union are of the opinion that the two factors that need to be modeled when projecting mining returns are growth of the global hash rate, and depending on the audience, the price of a cryptocurrency with respect to base currency. As…

The current mining calculators are linear. By our observations, the key drivers to projecting mining profitability exhibit exponential behavior. A better model is needed. We’re not claiming our model is perfect — but it’s better than a linear projection. Check it out. The Simulation Model Premise So if you use any of the…