On this resource page you will find links to all the best crypto currency mining ‘tools of the trade’. Only the coin mining resources I personally use will end up on this page. Feel free to share in the comments any resources you discover that might be helpful to the mining community! If you’ve built a rig using my 6 GPU Mining Rig Build Guide, the tools listed below will be invaluable in helping you set up and configure your mining operation for maximum fun and profit. Enjoy!

Buying and Trading Cryptocurrencies

Listed below are exchanges and other crypto services I personally use and can recommend based on my own personal experience. As always, this is not financial advice, and I do receive a small commission which I use to update this website and keep providing helpful resources. If you sign up using any of the links below, a big ‘Thank-You!’ from me to you. 

• FTX Global Crypto Exchange (Use FTX US if a US resident)This is the holy grail of crypto trading exchanges, and I’ve explored dozens of exchanges. The folks who created this exchange wanted to create the New York Stock Exchange for Crypto, and they’ve been pretty successful. They have excellent liquidity, all the best alt coins and even have stock derivatives for popular stocks like $AAPL $TSLA and others.  If you sign up with the referral link, you save 5% on any transaction fees on the platform.
• VOYAGER I personally use and recommend Voyager. Download the app and trade $100 to get $25 of free Bitcoin. Use code JOSWDN to claim your free BTC.
  
• BlockFi  –  Are you a HODL’er? Did you know you can earn interest on your Crypto and USDC stablecoin holdings?  BlockFi is a US-based company offering great rates on crypto balances. At the time of writing they pay 8.6% on USDC holdings and 6% on Bitcoin holdings.
  
• Coin Market Cap – This website shows all the crypto currencies listed by their market capitalization. They also have custom lists for new alts that focus on DeFi coins, Yield Farming and other recent developments in the crypto space.

Cryptocurrency Forums

• Bitcoin Talk  –  You’ll have to tool around in the sandboxed noob section of this forum for 4 hours or so and have several posts under your belt before you graduate to the best sections of the forum. The wait is worth it, though. Lots of information here and the best part? You can read posts written by the inventor of bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto himself (or whatever his/her/their real name is). 🙂
• Ethereum Community Forum – This is where all the news and information regarding the #2 crypto currency are posted.
• Litecoin Forum  –  Similar in content to the bitcoin talk forums, this forum is dedicated specifically to the Litecoin crypto-currency.

Statistics / Graphs

Bitcoin Nodes  –  This is a map of the world showing all the Bitcoin nodes (computers running the Bitcoin client) in existence. Pretty neat.

Bitcoin Hash Rate Distribution – This is a pie chart displaying the various pools and large commercial Bitcoin mining operations as a percentage of the total hashing power of the network.

More to come!