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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.

Antminer S21 XP, three-quarter view Hardware 11 AUG 2026 9 min Which ASIC actually fits your site There is no best miner — only the one that matches your tariff, your climate and your capex. Four questions that settle the choice before anyone opens a price list. Read →
Rows of miners running in a hall ECONOMICS 04 AUG 2026 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 → Antminer S21 Hydro with its water couplings HARDWARE 26 JUL 2026 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 → Distribution transformer feeding a mining site HARDWARE 19 JUL 2026 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 → Hash board and control electronics SERVICE 12 JUL 2026 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 → Antminer and its power supply on a service bench SERVICE 05 JUL 2026 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 → Racks of miners in a hosted facility ECONOMICS 28 JUN 2026 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 →