Bitcoin Mining Hardware Archive

A Review of Crypto Mining with Cudo Miner on PC

*** Updated for March 2022*** Cudominer have finally relented to update their minimum withdrawals to ~$30 instead of several hundred as per this tweet and this knowledgebase article. As of 18th March 2022, the minimum …

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Our four antminer S1's mining away. Doubles as space heater, and also nightime heat mat for our pair of bearded dragons

How do you mine bitcoin?

The entire bitcoin blockchain, for all the transactions it moves around, relies on bitcoin miners to keep the network humming away. Especially with the recent blocksize debate, the role of miners has come to the …

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Why not to mine coins on your laptop – a €600 lesson

May 2018 update – This article was originally written in 2015, and remains valid when discussing bitcoin/BTC mining. However, in the meantime a variety of altcoins and forks of bitcoin can use GPU mining, although …

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Antminer S1 – Mining more than 3 pools

Originally published in November 2014 Here at BitcoinsInIreland, we have been playing with our mining rig over the past week . We’ve been generating coins on several pools for the last week, ahead of us expanding our …

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The BitcoinsInIreland Review Mining Rig

So as part of our quest to try and put together a comprehensive guide to Bitcoins in Ireland, we have invested in four antminer S1’s which are undervolted intentionally to give approximately 600 – 650 gigahashes between them. Before …

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Fascinating documentary into Bitcoin Mining in China

As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald on February 14th, Motherboard have put together a fascinating 9+ minute documentary with the owners of several bitcoin mining operations in China. This documentary lets you see how large-scale bitcoin mining is …

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If you're just getting started with cryptocurrency, there are several methods to get your first couple of euro of cryptocurrency to put in your wallet.

Did you know that the Crypto part of Revolut has a section called Learn? You can earn around €10 in free crypto from doing some lessons (and they've recently finally added the option to withdraw your bitcoin from your account to an external wallet address! )

Want to use your computer to mine cryptocurrency? Cudominer lets you mine a variety of cryptocurrencies. Read our Cudominer Review to see how it works. Note, this could potentially cause damage to your machine as we learned the hard way so do it at your own risk.

If you want to try a faucet to earn small amounts of crypto which pay out when you reach a certain threshold of bitcoin, you can roll the dice and potentially get up to $100 in bitcoin once an hour by registering with Free Bitco.in and doing their roll. Once you earn 0.0003 bitcoin, this is transferred to your nominated wallet.