Field guides.

The questions every small operator hits before the rig is even racked, answered once and kept current.

These are the long-form pieces I wish someone had written before I started. Each one is something I've actually run: the financing, the provider choices, the tax treatment. Free, public, no email required. If you want the monthly numbers and the running decisions, that's what the newsletter is for.

• 0% APR rig financing: a hosted-mining playbook

  How to finance a hosted rig at zero cost of capital using business credit cards. The cash-advance trap, the failure modes, and the exit ramp that separates the operators who make it work from the ones who get burned.

• Hosted mining provider comparison

  Coming soon · Sazmining vs. Blockware vs. Compass vs. Simple Mining. The axes that actually matter, from someone with rigs at three of the four.

• FBTC vs. direct bitcoin vs. mining: tax treatment

  Coming soon · Three paths to bitcoin exposure, three very different tax outcomes, with worked numbers for a high-marginal-rate operator.

• STRC DRIP walkthrough

  Coming soon · Monthly distributions that don't trigger a bitcoin sale, how the DRIP compounds, and where it fits in the stack.