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Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem

by Enchanted Broccoli aniccaresearch.tech published 2020-06-01

Bitcoin mining is a complex phenomenon that connects hardware and software, the energy and financial markets. Invisible rules govern every aspect of it. The performance of an individual operation is determined by various external factors that are often hard to quantify and almost impossible to forec

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