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Guides for people who run hardware and want to run it better: pool choice, profitability modelling, firmware, electricity contracts.
Yes, and stablecoin lending is the largest activity in DeFi by deposits. Supplying earns the rate borrowers pay, borrowing requires collateral worth more than the loan, and the risks are bad debt, depegs and being unable to withdraw when a pool is fully lent.
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Mining profit is revenue from the network minus electricity and pool fees, and every input except the machine's specification changes daily. This guide works through the calculation with stated assumptions, covers break-even electricity price and payback, and shows why difficulty growth expires any forecast.
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A curator decides which markets a lending vault may lend into, how much may go to each and which oracles it trusts. Depositors are paying for those decisions, and the curator's name is the single most useful thing to know about a vault.
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A vault is a smart contract that takes deposits, runs a strategy with them and issues shares that appreciate as the strategy earns. The share accounting is simple; the risk sits in what the strategy does and whether the vault can honor withdrawals when everyone asks at once.
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Morpho splits lending into isolated, immutable markets and lets curators recombine them into vaults. The design contains bad debt within a single market, and moves the risk decision from protocol governance to whoever configured the vault you deposited into.
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Proof of work makes producing a block expensive and verifying one nearly free. That asymmetry is the whole mechanism: it lets a network of strangers agree on one history without anyone deciding who is allowed to participate.
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A cohort of listed companies runs a large share of Bitcoin's hashrate, and through 2026 several of them have been converting that capacity to AI and high-performance computing. Reported hashrate figures differ substantially between sources, so the ranking is directional rather than precise.
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