Learn Bitcoin Mining and Energy Open to verified learners
Bitcoin mining, hardware and energy economics — written, free, and open to verified learners. The outline below is what it covers; the lessons open in your account.
Access Status
New miners and energy learners can request access now. Public pages describe what is live today.
- Configured onboarding
- Verify an email to open your dashboard. Connection details are private and are issued there once your access is approved.
- Alpha
- The courses help you get set up and make safer choices.
How the lessons open
Verify your email
One verified address opens your account and your dashboard. That is all the sign-up there is.
Ask for Tester access
Lessons open with Tester status, and a person grants it rather than a switch — ask, and we will turn it on.
Read in your dashboard
Your courses live in the dashboard’s Academy tab, read full-page, with progress saved to your account. Capstone review has not opened yet; submission instructions appear once it does.
Learning Tracks
Eight areas, from first principles to building on the platform — and one further advanced track that opens inside the course. Lessons and exercises unlock with Tester access; this outline is the whole public map.
- Mining Fundamentals
- What mining is, how the platform works, wallets and payouts — the foundation every path shares.
- Solar & Off-Grid Mining
- Panels, power budgets, and deployments where the grid does not reach.
- Pool Mining & Payouts
- The non-custodial pool model, share accounting, and reading your own payouts.
- Protocol Deep Dives
- The mining protocols under the hood, traced message by message.
- Infrastructure & Operations
- Nodes, servers, DNS, monitoring — running the stack, not just using it.
- Legal, Business & Compliance
- The regulatory landscape, honest messaging, and financial inclusion.
- Developer Academy
- The repository ecosystem, standards, security policy, and API design.
Where to go next
Ask Melanie
Ask about the curriculum, or anything else about mining with Melanin.
Support
Study groups, weekly Q&A, and peer help on Support.
Non-custodial by construction is the direct-payment design. The published fee policy is 97/3 to miner and platform. Bitcoin is the public path. Confirm actual payment in your wallet; a dashboard record alone is not proof. Onboarding needs a verified email, private endpoints stay off public pages, and public code is reviewed before release.
