Mining Bitcoin at Home: Week 5 Update

Hello everyone! How’s it going? This week’s update features a new thing – a summary of my miner’s earnings per pool per week, as well as the total earnings, in the easily readable table format.

Week 1 update here
Week 2 update here
Week 3 update here
Week 4 update here


My current set-up with the router on top of the miner. The water tank with ice cubes helps to redistribute heat from the overheated areas in the middle to the cooler ones on the edges.

It looks like it’s been an okay week. I continue to be somewhat unlucky when choosing which pool to mine on, and when. I think I would have been better off if I simply mined on NiceHash for most of this week. But, as my (rotten) luck would have it, I had wasted some time mining on a pool that didn’t find many blocks. My luck turned in the past two days, when Bitcoin.com’s mining pool churned out 8 blocks – while I was mining on it! That is more like it!

Moving forward, I think I will make some kind of schedule for each pool, instead of switching between them in panic, like a headless chicken. For example, mining on Bitcoin.com for two days, then on Kano’s CKPool for three days, then on NiceHash for two days. Or something like that. We will see if it leads to any improvements in the earnings numbers. I will be happy to report back to you in the next week’s update.

For now, however, I present to you this week’s numbers – in the new, easily-readable table format. I hope that it provides a better overview of my total earnings, as well as total and weekly results for each pool. Please let me know what do you think of it and whether I should continue with this format from now on.

To be continued…

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