Weekend Wrap: Mining Taxes, Payouts, Senator Warren and Blacklisting

Published: Sat, 09/11/21

September 11, 2021
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What's New?

  • Senator Warren publicly criticized Bitcoin's energy consumption on Twitter, referencing a recent New York Times article. 
  • Bitcoin's hashrate has recovered 50% from its June crash. 

  • A priority transaction network for Ethereum raised $17.4M from a token sale. 

  • Arcane Crypto orders its first batch of mining machines from Bitmain. 

  • Bitmain plans to host 56,000 ASICs in Georgia State. 

  • Blockstream will pilot a renewables-powered mining facility with financial services giant Macquarie Group. 

  • Gryphon Mining's Brittany Kaiser pitched products for blacklisting miners based on non-renewable energy use at Bitmain's September conference. 

Weekend Watchlist

Bitcoin Miners Don't Suffer Double Taxation | Compass Live CLIP

Bitcoin Miners Don't Suffer Double Taxation

Tax experts explain the income taxes and capital gains taxes that most miners pay. 

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Why Mainstream Media Gets Bitcoin Mining Wrong

Why The Media Gets Bitcoin Mining Wrong

Two journalists explain why mainstream media often inaccurately reports on the mining industry. 

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Problems With Popular On-Chain Analysis | Compass Live CLIP

Problems With Popular On-Chain Analysis

Traders and data analysts critique popular uses of mining and other on-chain data for market insights.

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Community Corner

  • A Compass miner compiled a table of nine key metrics, including daily profit, efficiency, break-even electricity prices, etc., for 18 different popular ASIC models currently on the market.
  • Compass miners and employees watched Whit Gibbs deliver a presentation on the growth of retail mining at Bitmain's conference in Miami.
  • On Twitter, a Compass miner authored a thread around a "magic formula" they constructed for calculating a mining operation's monthly profit. 😅 Warning: it's comlex.

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Written by Zack VoellWill Foxley , and  Lili Rhodes

  
 

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