Cryptocurrency Mining

Bitcoin mining is the process of verifying bitcoin transactions, and adding them to the blockchain, the public ledger that bitcoin is based on. This process keeps the bitcoin network secure and creates new bitcoin as well.

When you want to send, spend, or receive bitcoin there is work to be done. Accounts have to be verified, the transaction needs to be made, and the blockchain needs to be updated and okayed by everyone on the bitcoin network. This is where bitcoin miners come in.

The process of bundling transactions, verifying them and adding them to the blockchain is what mining is all about. Miners do this work because they are rewarded for it. They get paid in bitcoin for every block added to the block chain and every transaction they process. Mining releases new bitcoin into the system and miners are paid in these newly made bitcoins.

There are many miners out there, all competing to add the next block to the blockchain and release new bitcoin. Right now about 18.5 million bitcoin have been released. This process will continue until roughly 2140 when all the 21 million bitcoin have been made. After that miners will be paid in transaction fees but there won’t be any new bitcoin made. There will only ever be  21 million bitcoin.

Mining gets harder the more miners there are and the pay out for mining a block gets smaller as more blocks are mined. When bitcoin started the reward for mining one block was 50 bitcoins. Today it is 6.25 bitcoins. The block reward gets cut in half every 210,000 blocks or every four years or so. This is known as ‘the halvening’. This keeps bitcoin’s supply low, keeping bitcoin rare, protects against inflation and will potentially make bitcoin more valuable over time. You can watch the count down to the next one at thehalvening.com.

Two things have to happen for a bitcoin miner to earn bitcoins. The first is they must verify one megabyte (MB) worth of transactions. This technically could be just one transaction but more likely will be several thousand transactions. The second thing that has to happen before a miner is rewarded and a block of transactions is added to the block chain, is miners have to solve an extremely difficult math problem called “proof of work”. What they are trying to do is guess a number that is the same or less that a number randomly created by the bitcoin network called a target hash. It sounds easier than it is. The target hash is a 64 digit hexadecimal number. Here’s an example:

0000000000000000057fcc708cf0130d95e27c5819203e9f967ac56e4df598ee

As you can see it’s a huge number and it’s a real gamble trying to guess it. You have roughly a 1 in 18 trillion chance of guessing correctly on your first try. In fact you are 45,000 times more likely to win the Powerball Lottery. That’s why you need very specialized, very powerful computers called ASIC computers to do the guessing. Because this guess work is so difficult groups of miners will often combine their computing power in a mining pool and split the mining reward between them. Most blocks are now mined by pools. In fact most of bitcoin’s computing power comes from mining pool and large companies based in China. No one know exactly but it’s estimated that 65% of bitcoin mining happens there.

Here are the big take aways for bitcoin mining:

Mining verifies, secures, and maintains the blockchain in a decentralized way.

Mining creates new bitcoin by solving very difficult computational puzzles and rewards the miners for their work.

Here are the all the factors involved in mining bitcoin. Hash rate, block reward, mining difficulty and mining difficulty increase, electricity cost, power consumption, pool fees, and bitcoin’s price.

If you’re interested in mining bitcoin here’s how you get started.

Calculate the profitability – you will need to consider the factors mentioned above. Once you have all your numbers in hand you can find many mining profitability calculators

Buy mining hardware – You will need a specialized mining rig. Expect to pay between several hundred and several thousand dollars on mining hardware to make your mining operation profitable

Join a mining pool – This is the best option for success. One mining rig on its own will not be profitable.

Find a crypto wallet – You will need a place to store your mined coins. A cold wallet, one kept offline is the safest place for them.

Start mining!

Top Crypto Miner Brands

Bitmain | www.bitmain.com

Bitmain Technology Holding Company (“Bitmain”) is a multinational semiconductor company with state-of-the-art IC design capabilities. Bitmain offers products, including chips, servers, and cloud solutions, for blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Haidian District, Beijing, Bitmain has research and development centers in Hong Kong, Singapore, and United States. According to Frost & Sullivan, Bitmain is among the world’s top 10 and China’s second largest fabless IC designer.

Bitmain has just announced the new Antminer S19XP, at 140 Terahashes and 3010 Watts is 30% more powerful and 10% more efficient than previous models.

Canaan | www.canaan.io

Canaan is a leading provider of supercomputing solutions, distinguished for superior cost-efficiencies and performance. In addressing the limitations of today’s computing hardware, Canaan strives to advance the world we live in by powering transformative technologies.

Innosilicon | www.innosilicon.com

Innosilicon is a world class one-stop shop of high-speed mixed signal IPs and ASIC custom solutions for a full range of processes from 130nm to 5nm across the world’s top foundries (TSMC/Samsung/GlobalFoundries/SMIC/UMC/Intel/HLMC/XMC, etc.), especially for FinFET processes below 22nm. So far, Innosilicon is the sole technology partner in China who has access to the 5nm process library provided by Samsung and TSMC combined with the design-to-tapeout capability.

MicroBT | www.microbt.com

MicroBT is a technology company which is based on block chain and artificial intelligence. Focusing on integrated circuit chip and products development, production and sales, and provide corresponding system solutions and technical services. We adhere the ideal ”ultimate, win-win, integrity” to provide high quality products and service. Now MicroBT has passed the national high-tech enterprise certification.

IPollo | www.iPollo.com

iPollo Miner is a supercomputer equipment designer, headquartered in Singapore. The company has evolved as a competitive player on the global market with robust designs since its inception. iPollo’s product line includes not only Ethereum V series, Bitcoin B series, and world-first Grin Asic miner G series, but also Filecoin, Chia, Swarm, and other Proof of Capacity consensus crypto miners. Aided by iPollo’s rapid growing footprints, the company is eager to serve our institutional and retail clients worldwide with a mission statement of “improving computing power and stability; reducing power consumption and user cost; maintaining blockchain network security. ”iPollo’s value lies deeply in the supreme quality and prestige reputation amongst our clients and ecosystem. With a strong commitment to continuous exploration and development, iPollo strives to succeed with our clients across the world.

Rebuminer | www.rebuminer.com

Where to Buy Cryptocurrency Miners

The following are reliable sites to purchase and learn about crypto mining gear.

www.coinminingcentral.com

www.cryptosupply.de

www.compassming.io

www.miningsyndicate.com

Top 7 Crypto Mining Pools

www.greatpool.ca

www.f2pool.com

www.antpool.com

www.nicehash.com

www.poolin.com

www.slushpool.com

www.viabtc.com

Crypto Mining Resources

www.asicminervalue.com – check on the most profitable miners.

www.WhatToMine.com

Top Cryptocurrency Miners

10 StrongU STU-U1++ Blake (14r) 52 TH/s 2100 W0.025 TH/W23.77 USDDCR12.25 USDPoolin DCR12.03 USDHC  

11 Canaan AvalonMiner 1246 SHA-256 90 TH/s 3420 W0.026 TH/W21.77 USDDGB14.31 USDZergpool SHA-25614.29 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256  

12 MicroBT Whatsminer D1 Blake (14r) 48 TH/s 2200 W0.022 TH/W21.31 USDDCR10.68 USDPoolin DCR10.48 USDHC  

13 MicroBT Whatsminer M30S 2020 SHA-256 88 TH/s 3344 W0.026 TH/W21.29 USDDGB13.99 USDZergpool SHA-25613.97 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256  

14 Antminer T19 SHA-256 84 TH/s 3150 W0.027 TH/W20.42 USDDGB13.46 USDZergpool SHA-25613.43 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256  

15 Hummer Miner H9 Pro SHA-256 84 TH/s 3360 W0.025 TH/W19.92 USDDGB12.95 USDZergpool SHA-25612.93 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256  

16 StrongU Hornbill H8 Pro SHA-256 84 TH/s 3360 W0.025 TH/W19.92 USDDGB12.95 USDZergpool SHA-25612.93 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256  

17 Canaan AvalonMiner 1166 Pro SHA-256 81 TH/s 3400 W0.024 TH/W18.82 USDDGB12.11 USDZergpool SHA-25612.08 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256  

18 MicroBT Whatsminer M31S SHA-256 78 TH/s 3276 W0.024 TH/W18.12 USDDGB11.65 USDZergpool SHA-25611.63 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256  

19 Antminer S17+ SHA-256 73 TH/s 2920 W0.025 TH/W17.31 USDDGB11.26 USDZergpool SHA-25611.24 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256  

20 StrongU Hornbill H8 SHA-256 74 TH/s 3330 W0.022 TH/W16.66 USDDGB10.52 USDZergpool SHA-25610.5 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256   21 Goldshell HS3 Handshake 2 TH/s 2000 W0.001 TH/W15.91 USDHNS6.53 USDPoolin HNS6.23 USDF2Pool HNS   22 Antminer Z15 Equihash 420 KH/s 1510 W0.278 KH/W15.55 USDMining Rig Rentals Equihash12.33 USDViaBTC ZEN11.52 USDLuxor ZEN   23 Antminer DR5 Blake (14r) 35 TH/s 1610 W0.022 TH/W15.53 USDDCR7.77 USDPoolin DCR7.63 USDHC   24 MicroBT Whatsminer M20S SHA-256 70 TH/s 3360 W0.021 TH/W15.25 USDDGB9.45 USDZergpool SHA-2569.43 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256   25 Cheetah Miner F5+ SHA-256 66 TH/s 2838 W0.023 TH/W15.17 USDDGB9.7 USDZergpool SHA-2569.68 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256   26 Canaan AvalonMiner 1166 SHA-256 68 TH/s 3196 W0.021 TH/W14.98 USDDGB9.34 USDZergpool SHA-2569.33 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256   27 Antminer S17e SHA-256 64 TH/s 2880 W0.022 TH/W14.41 USDDGB9.1 USDZergpool SHA-2569.08 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256   28 Innosilicon T3+Pro 67T SHA-256 67 TH/s 3300 W0.02 TH/W14.4 USDDGB8.84 USDZergpool SHA-2568.83 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256   29 Antminer T17+ SHA-256 64 TH/s 3200 W0.02 TH/W13.64 USDDGB8.33 USDZergpool SHA-2568.32 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256   30 Canaan AvalonMiner 1146 Pro SHA-256 63 TH/s 3276 W0.019 TH/W13.12 USDDGB7.9 USDZergpool SHA-2567.88 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256   31 Antminer S17 Pro SHA-256 53 TH/s 2094 W0.025 TH/W12.63 USDDGB8.23 USDZergpool SHA-2568.22 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256   32 Antminer S17 SHA-256 56 TH/s 2520 W0.022 TH/W12.61 USDDGB7.96 USDZergpool SHA-2567.95 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256   33 Antminer S17 53 TH/s SHA-256 53 TH/s 2385 W0.022 TH/W11.93 USDDGB7.54 USDZergpool SHA-2567.52 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256   34 Antminer S17 Pro 50 TH/s SHA-256 50 TH/s 1975 W0.025 TH/W11.92 USDDGB7.77 USDZergpool SHA-2567.76 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256   35 Cheetah Miner F5I SHA-256 60 TH/s 3480 W0.017 TH/W11.63 USDDGB6.66 USDZergpool SHA-2566.64 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256   36 Bitfury Tardis SHA-256 80 TH/s 6300 W0.013 TH/W11.53 USDDGB4.9 USDZergpool SHA-2564.87 USDMining Rig Rentals SHA-256   37 Innosilicon T3+ 57T SHA-256 57 TH/s 3300 W0.017 TH/W <a class=”coin_