Bitcoin Mining Resources

Mining is an important aspect of Bitcoin's security - timestamping batches of transactions and making it expensive to reverse transactions that have been confirmed. These days the time, skills, and capital investment required to mine profitably is out of reach for most hobbyists.

Mining Info:

How Bitcoin Mining Works (in layman's terms)
Braiins Mining Insights
Mining pool hashrate distribution
Mining Research
Mining pool stats
Mining Simulator
North American Bitcoin Mining Index
Organ of Corti (mining / network analysis blog)
Satoshi Blocks (allegedly mined by Satoshi)
51% Attack Cost

Mining Guides:

Getting Started Guide
Braiins (open source mining software)
Braiins Mining Insights
Mining Hardware Profitability Calculator
Realtime Mining Statistics
Difficulty Estimator
Cryptocoin mining relative profitability

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