About ASIC Shops
ASIC Shops is a deliberately small, focused information project. It is for people who want to understand mining models before committing capital – and who are willing to look at uncomfortable risks as well as technical details.
What we do
The core of ASIC Shops is context. We explain technical metrics, show how difficulty, efficiency, power prices and hardware cycles interact, and outline the differences between self-hosted, pool, cloud and hosted setups. The goal is not to encourage mining, but to make it easier to decide when it clearly does not fit your situation.
The original `/about/` page already described some of this mission; here, it is sharpened: we aim to provide enough structure that you can ask better questions, read offers more critically and recognise when marketing language ignores basic constraints. We emphasise that mining is speculative, usually complex and often not worth the stress for private users.
What we explicitly are not
ASIC Shops is not a hardware shop, broker or intermediary for mining contracts. We do not sell devices, run a pool, offer cloud or hosting packages, or operate affiliate programmes that pay us for sending traffic to specific providers. There are no buy buttons, registration forms or such funnels on this site.
We also do not provide individual advice. Nothing on this website is tailored to your personal financial, legal or tax situation. We do not issue “signals”, ROI forecasts or rankings of “best miners”. Any investment or contract decision you take remains entirely your responsibility and should, where appropriate, involve qualified local advisers.
Why risks are front and centre
Marketing around ASIC, cloud and hosted mining frequently highlights potential returns while downplaying or omitting key uncertainties. That imbalance encourages decisions based on partial information. Our editorial stance is the opposite: we place uncertainty, downside scenarios and practical limitations at the centre and discuss potential upside only in that context.
This does not mean that all mining attempts are doomed; it does mean that for many readers the more useful outcome is to decide not to chase “passive income” in this space. Naming the possibility of total loss, contractual dead-ends and operational overload is part of treating the topic – and the readers – seriously.
How the content is produced
The English texts partly build on the earlier one-page descriptions from the legacy `/about/`, `/guide/` and `/faq/` sections and reorganise them into a clearer structure. Technical terminology is used carefully: terms like TH/s, J/TH, difficulty adjustment, hosting and colocation are explained rather than treated as buzzwords. When we refer to thresholds for electricity prices or efficiency, they are framed as rough ranges, not promises.
Updates happen as the ecosystem evolves. New ASIC generations, regulatory developments or changes in common contract types can all make parts of older explanations misleading if left untouched. Where this happens, sections are rewritten instead of simply appended, so that each page remains readable as a whole.
Who this site is for
The primary audience consists of technically curious readers who are willing to do their own homework but want a starting point that is calmer and more sceptical than most promotional material. That includes people comparing self-hosted mining with cloud offers, readers who have seen hosted-mining pitches and want to understand the fine print, or those simply trying to understand why ASICs exist at all.
If you are under financial pressure, carry high-interest debt or depend on short-term gains to meet obligations, mining is almost certainly a poor fit. Tying up capital in specialised hardware or opaque contracts adds fragility. Part of the purpose of ASIC Shops is to make it easier to see that clearly and early, before “sunk cost” dynamics take over.