Why crypto prices fall overnight, and how to tell a reason from a coincidence

Token Boost is an independent crypto publication covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, XRP, new coins, market prices and — more deeply than most outlets our size — mining. We publish explainers, buyer-intent guides and ten free calculators. We are a publication, not a broker, an exchange or an advisory service.

No. Nothing on Token Boost is financial, investment, legal or tax advice. We do not know your circumstances, your tax position or your risk tolerance. Everything here is information and education, and it should be a starting point for your own research rather than a substitute for it.

Your share of a network is your hashrate divided by the total network hashrate. That share multiplied by daily blocks and the block reward gives expected coin production; multiplied by price and less the pool fee, that is revenue. Subtract electricity and you have profit. Our calculator does exactly that and shows you every input, so any figure we publish can be reproduced.

Because every mining calculator, ours included, holds network difficulty constant, and difficulty is not constant. It has trended upward across almost every multi-year window, which shrinks your share of the network over time even though your machine has not slowed down. A break-even date computed at today's difficulty is a best case, not an expectation.

CoinLore, with Binance as a secondary source, cached for five minutes. We originally specified a different provider but it rate-limits our hosting address, so we switched rather than ship a widget that intermittently shows nothing. When a figure is stale we label it with its age instead of hiding the fact.

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Four editorial desks: mining, markets and prices, Bitcoin and security, and altcoins including XRP. Articles are published under desk identities rather than the names of individual employees, and the avatars beside them are generated monograms rather than photographs. We say so plainly on our about page because the alternative — inventing biographies with stock or synthesised faces — is a practice we want no part of.

Because it is the honest description of how the site is produced. Each persona represents a beat and a consistent standard. Attaching a fabricated face and biography to an invented name in order to look more credible is exactly the pattern that has damaged trust across this sector, and we would rather tell you what we are.

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Treat it as indicative. Prices are mid-market figures from a data provider, cached for up to five minutes, and what you actually pay on an exchange will differ once spread, fees and slippage apply. Nothing on this site is a quote.

See our write-for-us page. We commission freelance work on mining, self-custody, protocol explainers and market structure. We do not accept guest posts placed for a backlink, price predictions dressed as forecasts, or AI-generated copy.

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It depends almost entirely on your delivered electricity rate and machine efficiency. Below roughly seven cents per kilowatt-hour a current-generation machine can work. Above twelve cents on residential rates, most home setups lose money at typical coin prices. Run your own numbers in the calculator rather than trusting a general answer, including this one.

Ripple is a private company that builds payment software and holds a large XRP position. XRP is the native asset of the XRP Ledger, a network that runs independently and would keep producing blocks if the company disappeared. Most confusing XRP headlines come from collapsing the two into one word.

We publish scenarios with explicit assumptions and a stated time horizon, and we label them as scenarios. We do not publish price targets presented as forecasts, and we treat any outlet that does with suspicion.

Editorial publishes continuously across the eight desks. Market data refreshes every five minutes. Articles carry both a published and a last-updated date so you can see how current a piece actually is.