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Mining and Staking

Here you will find our coverage of the basics of cryptocurrency mining and staking. We bring you tutorials, basic concepts, news and analysis.

Cryptocurrency mining is a combination of science and art. In this section we hope to provide you with the basic information you need to understand and, perhaps, get started producing your own crypto.

Are Proof of Stake (PoS) cryptos securities? [Opinion]
In March 2022, Bitcoin enthusiast Michael Saylor postulated that Proof of Stake cryptocurrencies are securities: The only settled method to create digital property is via Proof...
ELI5 Proof of Stake (PoS) – How does PoS work?
In the cryptocurrency universe, Proof of Stake (PoS) is one of the most popular alternatives to the Proof of Work (PoW) family of consensus mechanisms. While PoW systems invest la...
ELI5 How to mine Litecoin
Litecoin has consistently been one of the most popular cryptocurrencies since its inception in 2011. It was initially forked from the main Bitcoin source code by a developer ca...
The 34 most profitable Proof of Stake (PoS) coins for 2021
In this article we take a look at several Proof of Stake (PoS) coins for investors building passive income streams. With the DeFi craze causing extremely high Ethereum fees, more ...
ELI5 Hydro Mining: generate your own electrical power for cryptocurrency mining
Hydro mining is a generic term which refers to the use of hydropower in the cryptocurrency mining process. Hydro-mining is considered a green energy alternative, which attempt...
ELI5 What is a premined cryptocurrency?
If you're a beginner and you've been following some of the cryptocurrency debates on social media, then you may have encountered something like this: CRV is getting premined an...
A Jormungandr jcli Cryptonomicon – Staking Pool Commands and Stuff
In this article, we'll take a look at jormungandr and ended up compiling notes, some commonly used commands and other stuff learned while researching how to run a Cardano staking...
ELI5: Cryptocurrency Micro Mining
Micro mining is a cryptocurrency mining modality where large quantities of small, and low computing power, devices perform the mining work. The idea stemmed from concepts relat...
ELI5 What is Honeyminer?
Honeyminer is an automatic multiple coin mining program that pays users to use their spare computing power. Honeyminer leverages a variation of the concept of micro mining, wh...
ELI5 What is an adversarial Cardano staking pool?
If you've been following recent Cardano staking discussions then you've probably seen or heard the term adversarial staking pool. What does it mean, exactly, to be an adversari...