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Mining Guides
30 evergreen guides covering how to mine, mining pools, payout schemes, hardware, and GPU rental — updated with live data.
Getting Started
5 guidesWhat Is Bitcoin Mining?
Learn how Bitcoin mining works, what hardware you need, and whether it's profitable.
Mining Profitability
Is crypto mining still profitable? Analysis with live rig data.
Electricity Cost in Mining
How electricity cost affects mining profit and how to calculate yours.
Self-Host vs Cloud Mining
Run your own rig or rent cloud hashrate? The economics compared with a real flagship rig vs real cloud-mining contracts.
How to Read MiningBoard's Rig Profitability Trends
How the /trends pages compute rising / falling rigs, what each status badge means, and how a buyer should read them.
Pool Guides
10 guidesHow to Mine on the MiningBoard Pool
Step by step: pick a coin, get a wallet, point your rig at our Stratum URL, and start earning on the low-fee MiningBoard pool.
What Is a Mining Pool?
Understand how mining pools work, why they matter, and how to pick one.
Mining Pool Payouts Explained
Compare PPS, PPLNS, PPS+ and FPPS side by side with a decision table.
PPS — Pay Per Share
Deep dive into Pay Per Share: how it works, fees, pros and cons.
PPLNS — Pay Per Last N Shares
Deep dive into PPLNS: luck, variance, and why fees are lower.
FPPS — Full Pay Per Share
Deep dive into FPPS: fixed block rewards plus fixed transaction fees.
PPS+ — Pay Per Share Plus
Deep dive into PPS+: the hybrid of PPS and PPLNS.
What Is a Hashpower Marketplace?
How NiceHash-style hashpower marketplaces work — buyers rent hashrate, sellers point rigs, prices set by algo demand. With live rates.
NiceHash vs Mining Rig Rentals
Two hashpower marketplaces compared — pricing, payouts, and which pays sellers more per algo, with live rates.
How to Price Your Rig on Mining Rig Rentals
Floor vs recent vs asking price — how to set a competitive MRR rental rate, with live top-algo prices.
Hardware
7 guidesBest Bitcoin Miners
Top SHA-256 ASICs ranked by daily profit, efficiency, and ROI.
Best Litecoin Miners
Top Scrypt ASICs for Litecoin and Dogecoin merged mining.
Best Kaspa Miners
Top KHeavyHash ASICs ranked by profitability.
Best Ethereum Classic Miners
Top Ethash miners for ETC mining after the Ethereum merge.
Bitcoin Mining Hardware: 13-Year History
Every milestone Bitcoin miner from 2013 to today, with hashrate, power, J/TH efficiency, and a log-scale chart of the curve.
FPGA vs ASIC Mining
Why FPGA mining still exists, the algorithms where programmable silicon beats fixed ASICs, and a live comparison from our catalog.
Best Bitcoin Heaters
Mining + space heating in one box. Heatbit, 21energy, MintGreen, HotMine — every dual-purpose Bitcoin heater with the math vs. heat pumps.
GPU Rental
8 guidesDatacenter vs Consumer vs Workstation GPU
What separates H100 from RTX 4090 from RTX 6000 Ada — ECC, NVLink, FP8, form factor, license, warranty.
Best GPU to Buy for AI Rental
Live host take-home and months-to-payback for every datacenter, prosumer, and consumer GPU. Buy-to-rent decision framework.
Top Earning GPUs Right Now
Live leaderboard of the highest-paying GPUs on AI rental marketplaces. Daily net, monthly net, payback windows.
Vast.ai Bid Pricing Strategy
How Vast.ai's bid auction actually clears, how to set your first rate, and how to adjust on-demand vs interruptible.
Rent GPU for AI Earnings
How much can you earn renting your GPU for AI workloads?
Vast.ai vs RunPod vs io.net
Side-by-side comparison of GPU rental marketplaces.
GPU Mining vs AI Rental
Should you mine crypto or rent your GPU for AI? Live data comparison.
Beginner's Guide to Renting a GPU for AI
Renter-side primer: what GPU rental is, how to pick one, and how to run your first AI job on Vast.ai or RunPod.