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Hardware reviews, solo lottery miners, buying guides, comparisons and mining news — written by the team that runs the calculator, with the numbers taken from the same live data the tables use.
Ledger Hardware Implant in Southeast Asia: What We Know and How to Protect Your Coins
Ledger has confirmed an unauthorized hardware implant in a device sold through a Southeast Asian reseller, and analysts trace tens of millions in stolen crypto to the case. What is confirmed, what is still rumour, what to do if you own a Ledger, and why miners should care.
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MinerCompare calculates mining profit from live network and price data at your own electricity rate, so every article on this blog can point to numbers you can check yourself.
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Odds, not promises
Solo lottery miners are rated by their block odds instead of a profit figure.
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The MinerCompare App: A Free Crypto Mining Profit Calculator for iOS and Android
The same live profit data as the website, on your phone: hundreds of ASIC miners and GPUs at your own electricity rate and currency, a portfolio, vendor offers, and block odds instead of fake profit for solo lottery miners. Free, no account needed.
Bitcoin Mining Companies in 2026: MARA, Riot, CleanSpark and the Public Crypto Miners Explained
What a publicly traded crypto mining company actually does, how the business runs on hashrate, fleet efficiency and power contracts, who the top dogs are by hashrate and by bitcoin held, how their Bitcoin treasuries changed, what the 2024 haling and the AI pivot did to the sector, and why a retail miner runs the same ASICs at a very different electricity price.
Why Zcash Miners Sit on Top of the Profit Charts in 2026
The Antminer Z15 Pro leads the ASIC table this month, and it is not because Equihash got a new chip. Zcash rallied while its network could only grow by pulling old Z15s out of storage. Here is why that margin exists, what ends it, and how to decide whether to buy in.
What you will find in our articles
Each topic below links to the matching calculator or directory, so you can go from reading about a machine to checking its numbers in one click.
Step-by-step explainers on pools, firmware, electricity, cooling and wallets.
Hardware reviewsOne machine in depth: real power draw, noise, specifications and who it suits.
Solo lottery miningHow small miners chase a whole block, with the daily, monthly and yearly odds.
Pools and payoutsHow pools split rewards, what they charge and when they pay out.
Profit mathsHashrate, difficulty, power and price explained, so you can read any result yourself.
ComparisonsMachines and generations side by side, using the same live data as the tables.
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BTCB2, Blake2b and the Hashrate Rental Rush: How Dormant Sia Miners Became the Hottest Rigs on MRR
A Bitcoin-branded chain switched its proof of work to Blake2b, the algorithm Sia ASICs were built for, and machines unplugged since 2022 became the most requested rigs on the rental market. What happened, where the Sia hashrate went, and how to think about it without being someone else’s exit.
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