Why?

Mining is a central topic in cryptocurrencies deserving of more than one tag to separate different aspects of it into their own collections. This will enable interested users to find related content more easily.

Who?

Anyone can help! If you can't edit yourself, you can suggest edits! Each suggested edit gives you +2 reputation when accepted.

How?

1. Find any questions tagged with mining.
2. Read questions and answers to figure out what the topic is.
3. Remove mining and replace with tags from the following list.

Bonus: Where appropriate vote, edit for quality, add answers, or flag. Questions that are edited are bumped to the front. That's a great time to fix 'em up.

(Likely) Targets

• miner-configuration
  Collects questions about configuration of mining hardware, and optimizing the software settings of mining rigs.

• mining-hardware
  Collects questions about mining rigs, cpus, gpus, fpgas, and asicminers, as well as the production, and producers of such.

• mining-pools
  Questions about organizing groups to collaboratively work on block creation.

• mining-profitability
  Collects questions about the economics of mining operations.

• mining-theory
  Questions about the function, the reason for, and the underlying concepts of mining.

• cpu-mining
  Questions about using CPUs for mining.

• gpu-mining
  Collects questions about mining setups on basis of GPUs.

• pool-payout-methods
  Questions about sharing revenue in mining pools.

• shares
  Shares refers to a method for accounting mining pool contributions. It does not cover company shares.

• solo-mining
  refers to mining by yourself, not organized in a mining-pool

• mining-software
  General questions about mining software.

• mining-setup
  Is used for questions concerned with the physical setup of mining hardware.

• miner-configuration
  Collects questions about configuring and optimizing the software settings on mining rigs.

When?

Starting now, until there are no questions left with the tag mining. :)