Tag: Print Magazine
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Bitcoin Mining Economics Simplified
This article was originally published in Bitcoin Magazine The Privacy Issue. Bitcoin mining is a competitive industry where profitability hinges on understanding and managing various factors including power cost, hashprice, BTCUSD, network hashrate, hardware costs, efficiency, and more. One of the simplest yet most crucial metrics miners use to gauge their efficiency and profitability is…
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Ordinals Unleashed
Bitcoin, Not Blockchain Bitcoin, not blockchain. This has been a prominent meme throughout the past two epochs, guiding noobs towards a Bitcoin-only way of life, away from the fraudulent “cryptos” promising greater “blockchain tech”. Yet, here we are, more focused than ever on the blockchain. But this time it’s different: The whole world has a…
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Pick Your Poisson
This article was originally published at Bitcoin Magazine in The Halving Issue. Calculated probabilities were calculated by Greg @ learnmeabitcoin.com Block 840,000 is not just another block in the blockchain; it triggers the Bitcoin halving where the block reward is reduced from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC, cutting the amount of BTC mined each day…
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Hash Recon
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This article was originally published in The Primary Issue of Bitcoin Magazine. We’re less than 30,000 blocks out from the halvening and the table stakes couldn’t be higher. For many Bitcoin mining operators, this will make or break the bets they’ve made during this bitcoin epoch. Did I grow too fast? Can I handle a catastrophic drop…
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The Pursuit Of Satsflow
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This article was originally published in The Withdrawal Issue of Bitcoin Magazine. This article is written as of block height 789,088, using a BTC price of $30,000, and $0.065 kWh for the modeling. The number one question everyone inevitably asks themselves is: How could I possibly outperform bitcoin? You will not find a single answer,…
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Demystifying Hashprice
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This article was originally published in The Gatekeepers Issue of Bitcoin Magazine. “There’s things you know, and there’s things you don’t know, and there’s things you know you don’t know, and there’s things you don’t know you don’t know” – Socrates The most important bitcoin metric you don’t know or understand is hashprice and today…
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Building Blocks
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This article was originally published in The Broke Issue of Bitcoin Magazine. Welcome to Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that prevents double-spending with a decentralized network where new coins are made from proof-of-work without a centralized mint or trusted third parties. This guide helps you discover how miners build blocks for the Bitcoin blockchain,…
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Hashing The High
This article was originally published in The Orange Party Issue of Bitcoin Magazine. “Hashing the High” offered a fascinating glimpse into Bitcoin’s hashrate during its peak in 2022. The infographic aimed to visualize the hashrate by measuring the energy consumption of the entire network if it relied solely on Bitmain Antminer S19j Pro 100T ASICs.…