Ben Harper

Director, Financial Services at Luxor Technology

Luxor Hashrate Lookback Series — July 2026

July 2026’s hashrate and hashprice trends, forward market participation, trading activity and contract performance.

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Hashrate Markets

Comparing Mining Pool Payouts: Two Pitfalls to Avoid During a Bake-Off

Split your hashrate across prospective pools for a week, and the highest payout usually belongs to the one with the most variance. FPPS pools may even overpay to win.

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Hashrate Markets

Bitcoin Difficulty Is Down Year Over Year for the Second Time Ever

For only the second time in Bitcoin’s history, network difficulty, and with it, hashrate, is down year-over-year. This almost never happens. Two structural forces keep difficulty grinding higher over any twelve-month window. The first is Moore’s Law: each new generation of mining rigs is more

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Hashrate Markets

Luxor Hashrate Lookback Series — June 2026

June 2026’s hashrate and hashprice trends, forward market participation, trading activity and contract performance.

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Hashrate Markets

Why Upfront Payouts Are the Smartest Way to Get Paid from Your Mining Pool

Flipping the script on pool payouts.

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Hashrate Markets

Luxor Hashrate Lookback Series — May 2026

May 2026’s hashrate and hashprice trends, forward market participation, trading activity and contract performance.

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Hashrate Markets

Two Years Into the 2024 Halving: The Hashprice Regime Change

Across both years, every rolling hedge strategy beat spot (FPPS) mining.

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Hashrate Markets

Luxor Hashrate Lookback Series — April 2026

April 2026’s hashrate and hashprice trends, forward market participation, trading activity and contract performance.

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Hashrate Markets