Editorial Independence Policy

PairMiner exists to give you straight talk about mining hardware, energy efficiency, and real profitability. No fluff, no paid placement disguised as honest opinion. This page explains how we keep our reviews and guides free from outside influence.

How we choose what to cover

We don’t take money or free gear in exchange for favorable coverage. Period. If a manufacturer sends us a sample for testing, we say so clearly in the review. And we send it back or pay for it after testing. No one gets to preview our findings before publication.

Our editorial decisions come from what actually matters to miners: hash rate, power draw, build quality, noise, reliability, and ROI under real-world electricity prices. We’ve turned down sponsored posts from ASIC distributors because the units they wanted us to push had terrible efficiency. You’ll see those same units listed in our “avoid” roundups.

Sponsorship and affiliate income

PairMiner uses affiliate links to some retailers (Amazon, Newegg, direct from Bitmain). That’s how we keep the lights on. But those links never determine what we write about or how we rate a product. If a rig is garbage, we say it’s garbage, link or no link. We also clearly label any sponsored content as “sponsored” so there’s no confusion.

We do not accept payments from hardware makers to appear in our “best of” lists or comparison tables. And we don’t run paid reviews. If you see a piece of content on PairMiner, it’s there because we think it helps you make a better mining decision, not because someone paid us to put it up.

How we handle conflicts of interest

Sometimes we build and tune rigs using parts from multiple vendors. When we recommend a particular PSU or cooling setup, it’s based on our own testing across different farms, not on freebies or kickbacks. If a staff member owns stock in a company we cover, that gets noted in the article.

We also avoid giving blanket endorsements to any single brand. Even our go-to miners change as new firmware or silicon comes out. We update older reviews and profitability calculators when we find new data that contradicts our previous take. That’s the deal we make with readers: we’ll tell you what we really think, and if we’re wrong, we’ll say so and fix it.