PLEB Miner Month celebrates the rise of Home Bitcoin miners

Bitcoin mining began at home with Satoshi Nakamoto mining the first 50 bitcoins on a Genesis block that would probably be considered an ancient desktop computer by today's standards. Mining has since evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry with fiat-style publicly traded mining behemoths with market capitalizations in the billions. These include major companies such as Marathon Digital Holdings, Riot Blockchain, Hut 8 Mining, Hive Blockchain and the like.

This article is not about mining whales or public fiat companies. It's about the little guys that men and women running an Antminer S9 do immersed nutjobs in their homes, dousing electronics in dielectric fluid and heating their pools, hot tubs, and radiant floors; Even two megawatt ballers that share rack space for one or two native bitcoin brothers and sisters.