Bitcoin Mining Hardware Archive

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

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

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 …
Fascinating documentary into Bitcoin Mining in China

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 …