NEW OPERATOR
You need hash before you need a warehouse. Learn the modes, run a first rental, then decide if ownership is worth the friction.
RAR / FIELD MANUAL
READ BEFORE
YOU SPEND.
Mining Guides are the operator field manual for Rent A Rig — practical paths for renting, owning, hosting, and trading steel. Written to change the next decision, not to pad a content calendar.
CHARTER
Operators lose money to fog: vanity efficiency claims, escrow skipped “to move faster,” hosting sold without a power envelope, and dashboards that look busy while the machine is dead. These guides exist to replace fog with a sequence you can execute on RAR.
We will not teach you how to “number go up.” We will teach you when rent beats buy, how to read J/TH against a bay limit, how to refuse a shady secondary listing, and when uptime credits do — and do not — apply.
CURRICULUM
THREE PATHS.
PICK YOUR LANE.
You do not need every article on day one. Choose the path that matches capital and risk — then open the rack when you need a specialist lane.
OWNING STEEL
Capex is on the table. Read efficiency before you checkout, write a real brief for customs, and know how hosting changes the power math.
FLEET & SECONDARY
You are rotating inventory or absorbing someone else’s machines. Escrow first, credits second, vanity listings never.
GUIDE RACK
EIGHT ARTICLES.
ZERO FLUFF.
Filter by lane. Every entry maps to a live RAR surface — rentals, hosting, hardware, marketplace, or account ops. If a guide cannot change what you click next, it does not ship.
- 01OPEN →
RENT VS BUY
When to rent capacity, when to own hardware, and how hosting changes the math — capital, power risk, and the mistakes that burn operators.
- 02OPEN →
YOUR FIRST RENTAL
A controlled first deploy — account prep, term choice, live inventory, checkout lock, dashboard literacy, and a clean exit before you scale.
- 03OPEN →
HOSTING BASICS
Facility blueprint for hosting — ownership vs rental, bay/rack/pod power ceilings, $/kWh math, SLA targets, intake corridors, and day-2 ops.
- 04OPEN →
READING EFFICIENCY
Lab read of J/TH — watts over hashrate, power envelopes, edge vs density noise trade, and a worked Unit A vs Unit B comparison at real $/kWh.
- 05OPEN →
MARKETPLACE SAFETY
Secondary-market case file — listing verification, escrow wire, shipping heat, burn-in before release, and red-flag walk patterns.
- 06OPEN →
UPTIME & CREDITS
Incident chronometer for facility credits — what counts, what does not, rental vs hosted ledgers, filing packets, and reading the outcome.
- 07OPEN →
CUSTOM RIG BRIEFS
Engineering-brief discipline for the hardware desk — constraints, form fields, operator notes, host vs ship, and reading a real BOM.
- 08OPEN →
WITHDRAWALS 101
Vault clearance guide — settlement inflows, verification ladder, wallet rails, fees and timing, holds, and security hygiene before you confirm.
EDITORIAL
HOW THESE
GUIDES ARE WRITTEN
Four constraints. If a draft fails one, it stays offline — even if it would “rank.”
PRODUCT-TIED
Every guide points at a live RAR surface — /rent, /hosting, /hardware, /marketplace, or account rails — not abstract crypto theory.
DECISION-FIRST
We write for the next click: rent or buy, which bay, which listing check. Essays without an action die in draft.
HONEST LIMITS
Credits, escrow, and SLAs are described with boundaries. If something is operator-caused, the guide says so.
SHORT ENOUGH
Read times stay under ten minutes. Depth lives in sections and checklists — not in a ninety-page PDF nobody opens.
SCOPE
GUIDE DESK
QUESTIONS
What this library is for — and what still belongs on Support or Status.
ARE THESE GENERIC MINING ARTICLES?
No. They are written against RAR product language — plans, bays, escrow, status, and withdrawals. Outside theory only appears when it changes an on-platform decision.
DO GUIDES REPLACE SUPPORT?
Guides prevent avoidable tickets. Live incidents, serial disputes, and facility events still go through Contact or System Status — not a comments section on an article.
WILL READ TIMES STAY ACCURATE?
We target the published minutes. If an article grows past usefulness, we split it or cut — we do not inflate word count for SEO theater.
CAN I SUGGEST A TOPIC?
Yes. Route Contact with subject GUIDE / REQUEST and the decision you could not make. Vague “more content” requests get archived.
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