Mining pools smooth Bitcoin payouts, but 2026 profitability depends on costs, efficiency, and market conditions.

Is crypto mining worth it in 2026? Learn the real costs of hardware, electricity, and taxes, plus beginner-friendly ways to mine altcoins and stack bitcoin.

Foundry, an upstate New York–based firm that launched in 2019, runs a mining pool that today commands around 31% of all Bitcoin production. On Monday, the company formally launched a second pool ...

Bitcoin mining has become far more professional than it was in the early days of crypto. A miner can no longer rely on a ...

From Bitaxes to Heatbits, small and comfortable home mining equipment are retail’s new entry into Bitcoin. Home mining is back. An opportunity not experienced since 2011 in Bitcoin, hobbyists are once ...

Bitlayer has partnered with major Bitcoin mining pools to promote the adoption of BitVM, a technology enabling Bitcoin-native DeFi. The partnership with Antpool, F2Pool, and SpiderPool supports ...

SBI Crypto will shut down its Bitcoin mining pool on July 31 after more than five years, ranking 12th globally with about 2.2% of hashrate share. SBI Crypto, a cryptocurrency-focused division of ...

Parasite Pool, a home-miner-focused bitcoin mining pool using a novel hybrid payout model, has mined its second block, #945,601, about 48 days after its first. The pool pays 1 bitcoin directly to the ...

GoMining and DMND mined what they describe as the first Bitcoin block where the miner selected the block's transactions using Stratum V2's Job Declaration feature. Stratum V2 allows miners to build ...

The Stratum V2 working group aims to improve mining-pool communication and give individual miners more control over block templates. Seven major Bitcoin mining pools and companies have joined the ...