Lithos: Decentralizing Mining with On-Chain Pools

Lithos is a new protocol designed to overhaul how mining pools work by moving them on-chain, giving miners full control, and elimi...

Ergohack 9: Innovations in UI/UX and Mining – Meet the Visionary Winners!

The latest annual Ergo hackathon, ErgoHack IX, was a six-day event held at the end of October. The theme for this year was enhanci...

Everything You Need to Know About Proof of Work

If you are new to cryptocurrency, you undoubtedly have numerous questions. You have probably heard of Bitcoin, and maybe even cons...

Mining Pool Innovation: Lithos Protocol Part II

For the first segment of this two-part series, please see Mining Pool Innovation: Lithos Protocol Part I. During a recent ErgoHac...

Mining Pool Innovation: Lithos Protocol Part 1

Mining is the process by which Ergo (or any other PoW (Proof of Work) blockchain) secures the network, generates new coins and ver...

What is a Mining Rig? - Comprehensive Guide

Introduction Since the inception of Bitcoin, mining rigs have played a pivotal role in securing and maintaining Proof of Work (Po...

EIP37 Hard Fork

After the Ethereum Merge, the crypto mining industry witnessed an impressive reorientation of hashing power across several Proof o...

Ergo: After the Ethereum Merge

A Discussion for the Mining Community It has been a whirlwind couple of weeks for the crypto mining industry. With Ethereum’s tra...

Ethereum Mining Community and GPU Miners: The Case for Ergo After The Merge

A Seismic Shift is Coming in the Field of Minable Blockchains The Proof of Work crypto mining landscape is about to drastically c...

Ergo and The Autolykos Consensus Mechanism: Part II

Last week, we introduced an in-depth exploration of Ergo’s Autolykos consensus mechanism. With this article, we complete the secon...

Ergo and the Autolykos Consensus Mechanism: Part I

The following is an in-depth, technical breakdown of Ergo’s consensus mechanism, Autolykos. As this is a lengthy and detailed topi...

Ergo’s Reemission Vote EIP27: A Path to Sustained Growth?

Ergo Tokenomics and Emission As a Proof of Work blockchain, Ergo has a defined emission schedule for the release of ERG tokens. W...

Proof of Work, Energy and Ergo

Introduction Proof of Work (PoW) was described in the original Bitcoin white paper as having two parts. The first part is digital...

Mining Ergo on HiveOS

Have you ever wanted to mine Ergo but thought you might not have the technical knowledge? Surprisingly, it is not as inaccessible ...

Mining Ergo on Windows

Mining Ergo as part of a mining pool is easy, particularly on Windows. It is possible to start mining Ergo on a computer with a GP...

Ergo Explainer: Storage Rent

tl;dr: Storage rent is a fee for long term storage on the Ergo blockchain. Four years from your last transaction, you will be ch...

Storage Rent and the Future of Mining

Miners are the consensus layer of proof-of-work blockchain and the security of all smart contracts relies on them establishing c...

Ergo Mining Rewards: The First Drop in Emission

Ergo mining rewards experienced their first drop in the emission schedule on January 2nd, 2022 with block 655200. With this redu...

Ergo Mining: Tools Of Decentralization

Ergo is a PoW (Proof-of-Work) blockchain on the consensus model called Autolykos. The PoW model was chosen because it offers the...

Ergo SmartPools and Decentralized Mining

For those following the recent ErgoHacks, you may be aware of the “SmartPools” concept that was suggested at our first event. Th...

Ergo Mining: Be A Part Of Our Growing Network

Over the last few months we have seen an incredible increase in Ergo’s community growth and participation. Online interactions h...