Notes from the desk on the machines themselves: what to buy, what it earns, and what it takes to keep it hashing. Written for operators who sign the invoice.
What a machine earns, and what the payback line hides Network share of the daily issuance, minus energy. Four lines of arithmetic — and three assumptions that decide whether the answer is worth anything. Read →
Air or hydro: the cooling your site can actually run Hydro wins on paper and loses on sites without water treatment. The derate curves, the pump load, and what a failed loop costs in a Gulf summer. Read →
From transformer to machine: how a hall is actually wired A megawatt of miners is 275 machines drawing 16 A each. Everything between them and the transformer is where the budget quietly goes. Read →
Firmware, pools and the hash rate you actually get Rated 270, pool says 261, and nothing is broken. Where the gap comes from, and which part of it is worth chasing. Read →
Buying used miners without buying somebody else’s problem The cheapest terahash on the market, and most of the bad orders. Six checks that separate a bargain from a pallet of repair work. Read →
Hosting or your own hall Hosting is dearer per kilowatt-hour and cheaper in every other line. What actually decides it is how many megawatts you are running and who is on site at 3am. Read → No posts in that category yet.