The Mining Shop Blog Posts & Articles

Compare managed ASIC hosting vs self-hosting through complete energy cost, infrastructure, uptime, custody, access, repairs, security, contract and exit risk.

BIP 389 guide covering Draft path tuples, receive/change expansion, lockstep key derivation, duplicate rejection, checksums, exports and compatibility.

What Bitcoin mining does? Bitcoin miners do not work through a list of increasingly difficult equations. Read the practical UK guide before deciding.

Learn how Stratum proxy mining farm works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Understand data centre water use, withdrawal versus consumption, cooling towers, closed loops, WUE and why location and measurement boundaries change the answer.

Understand ASIC Miner Maintenance. Use safe diagnostics, protect warranty cover and make informed repair decisions before choosing equipment.

Bitcoin difficulty epoch variance analysis reconciles forecast and actual reward, accepted hashrate, uptime and energy across each adjustment period.

BIP 351 Private Payments made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

Nexa Mining made simple. See how the network works, which hardware matters and what to check before using electricity.

NexaPow Mining made simple. See how the network works, which hardware matters and what to check before using electricity.

SHA512/256d mining: Radiant mining is a specialised hardware decision tied to a comparatively small network. Check current pool and network details.

Radiant Mining made simple. See how the network works, which hardware matters and what to check before using electricity.