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Vom Minerstat-Team
Plattform-Updates, Methodik-Deep-Dives und das Engineering hinter den Mining-Daten.
Meet the new minerstat
minerstat.com has been rebuilt from the ground up as a real-time mining data platform, with autonomous coin discovery, opportunity and confidence scores, a new v3 API and the classic toolbox.
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How the opportunity score works
A plain explanation of the 0-100 opportunity score, the profit, risk, confidence and liquidity signals behind it, and why a high profit with a low score is usually a trap.
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DAG size in 2026, and which GPUs fall off next
How DAG epochs work, why 4GB and then 6GB cards stopped mining certain coins, where the major DAGs stand in 2026, and how to see your card's cutoff date in advance.
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How we verify a coin before listing it
The verification pipeline behind every coin on minerstat, from cross-checking independent data sources to confidence scoring, human review and delisting dead projects.
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Mining pool fees explained, and why the headline number lies
PPS, PPLNS and SOLO payout schemes, how fee structures really work, what payout thresholds cost you, and why a 1 percent fee is not always cheaper than a 2 percent one.
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ASIC efficiency, a decade of progress in joules per terahash
How SHA-256 ASIC efficiency improved from 100 J/TH to the low teens in a decade, why J/TH decides which machines survive, and how your electricity price sets the cutoff line.
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