Mining Portfolios, S19 Hydro and Bitcoin Microeconomics

Published: Sat, 01/29/22

January 29, 2022
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Positing Bitcoin mining stocks in a portfolio

Bitcoin mining companies are an often-discussed revenue-centric alternative to investing directly in cryptocurrencies, but position sizing can be difficult to gauge as they remain highly correlated to bitcoin while bringing additional volatility to a portfolio. Check out four portfolio constructions.

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What to know about Bitmain's S19 Hyrdo

Althoug a seven nanometer (nm) chip, Bitmain’s newest Hydro miner clocks in at a 198 TH/s hashrate.

The increase in hashrate is dependent on the design's ability to overclock hashboards, wherein a computer runs at higher power to squeeze out more hashrate. 

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Bitcoin mining as a model of perfect competition

The bitcoin mining market is the first actualization of a perfectly competitive market. A theoretical microeconomic model, perfect competition consists of several attributes inheret to Bitcoin mining.

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Leaving Proof-of-Work | Tim Beiko and Ben Edgington

The formal specification for Ethereum 2.0 is almost done and everyone is wondering when and how the Merge will happen. Ben Edgington & Tim Beiko, two developers working on implementing Eth 2.0, join us to talk about when and how a transition of such scale will take place.

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