Konrad Fitzpatrick

A Norwegian town campaigned to shut down a bitcoin mining operation in their town. They got their wish . . .  and a huge increase in their power bills. Does the public’s

Hash price is a critical metric that bitcoin miners use to measure their current and potential revenue. Hash price is the amount of bitcoin a miner can expect to earn

In the last couple of weeks, major network outages have significantly interfered with daily business operations and affected millions of people. Crowdstrike, whose faulty update led to a global network

La Niña is expected to bring warmer and drier weather to the southern U.S., leading to higher cooling costs and energy grid competition for Bitcoin miners in Texas, while northern regions will face colder, snowier conditions that could disrupt mining operations.

In our last article we compared the investment appeal of Bitcoin mining and real estate investing.

In the realm of investment opportunities, rental properties have long been a promise of profitability. However, as the bitcoin mining industry matures, supporting services make it easy for anyone to

While Baby Boomers own a majority of the USA's wealth (image 1), they have a very small footprint invested into Bitcoin due to their low average sentiment towards

Gold was used as money for thousands of years – then suddenly it wasn’t. To make gold better money, gold became reliant on centralized services. Aware of gold’s failures,

“Say no to gold mining; no to cyanide in our water” - Anonymous Protester, Northern Ireland In the upcoming US presidential election, let’s imagine each candidate has a mining

“Beware of little expenses, a small leak will sink a great ship” - Benjamin Franklin Traditional businesses manage a multitude of risks and challenges to engage in the exchange of

“As Mr. Giffen has pointed out, a rise in the price… they consume more, and not less of it.” — Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics 1895 Bitcoin is famous for its

As high fees raise mining revenues, they also reduce profitability for small mining operations. Can small miners have their cake and eat it, too?

Future cattle farmers may turn to wild solutions to tame their leaky methane problem, including Bitcoin mining.

Ordinal inscriptions have changed the state of mainnet fees and node operational considerations, arguably for the better.

What will full RBF mean for Bitcoin miners? We explore here.

Many miners arn't paying attention to the Lightning Network. 2022 showed us its sticking around, even if still in R&D.

The bitcoin mining market is the first actualization of a perfectly competitive market.

Does this mean that 90% of mining profits are behind us?

Only a few mining companies outperformed bitcoin last month.

Blaming downward price movements on miners doesn’t make sense.

Square is bullish on mining, not just Bitcoin.

Riot and Marathon are planning to aggressively expand their mining capabilities by several multiples.