Episode 19

019. State of the Network, News, Tangents, Home Miner of the Week, w/ Special Guest: Rob Warren, Partner - distributed hash

POD256 | Bitcoin Mining, Freedom Tech, and Awesome Tangents

May 28, 20231h 46mFull

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Show Notes

Date: May 25, 2023
Block Height: 791357
How many days until the halving: 338 according to https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/
Stream Sats, Point Hash:

Pick any Lincoin URL:

a) stratum+tcp://NA.lincoin.com:3333
b) stratum+tcp://EU.lincoin.com:3333
c) stratum+tcp://LatAm.lincoin.com:3333
d) stratum+tcp://CIS.lincoin.com:3333
e) stratum+tcp://Asia.lincoin.com:3333
f) stratum+tcp://OC.lincoin.com:3333
g) stratum+tcp://Africa.lincoin.com:3333
Then use "pod256.YourAlias" as the worker name.
Shout out to @_business_cat, “twoexahash”, @BikesandBitcoin, “lonelypumpkins”, “plebminerhottub”, “rvabitcointravels9nr1”, “rvabitcoin-travelings9-nr1”, “rvabitcoin-travelings9-nr2”, “rvabitcoin-travels9-nr1”, & Business Cat’s podcast: “rockpaperbitcoinpodcast”.
State of the Network:

Bitrawr - difficulty estimator: https://www.bitrawr.com/difficulty-estimator
Mempool.space - hashrate & difficulty: https://mempool.space/
ASIC prices - hashrate index from luxor: https://data.hashrateindex.com/asic-index-data
Hashvalue - Braiins insights: https://insights.braiins.com/en/

News:

RoninMiner celebrated his birthday this week! https://twitter.com/KaboomracksAlex/status/1660055145302900736
Mempool.space introduces Mempool Accelerator, allowing users to bump their tx up the queue: https://twitter.com/mempool/status/1659619347910803466
F2pool is collecting rare sats!?: https://twitter.com/Medi_Naseri/status/1661555005860773889
FutureBit working with Dr. Con to decentralize Bitcoin mining: https://twitter.com/JStefanop1/status/1661361822136512514
CK Solo Pool finds 274th block, awarded to a miner with 750Th: https://twitter.com/ckpooldev/status/1660799764332519425
Upstream Data sues Crusoe for patent infringement: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley/status/1661030250183282693
BottlePay shuts down their consumer app. Good riddance:https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1660607537744338944
Security firm, Unciphered claims to hack Trezor T devices. Exploit not patchable with firmware update: https://unchainedcrypto.com/security-firm-unciphered-claims-be-able-to-hack-trezor-t-wallet/ YouTube Video of hack in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50eiA-75NMY
Citadel Dispatch #100: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cd100-the-disturbing-chainalysis-led-prosecution/id1546393840?i=1000608797392

Home Miner of the Week:
@HodlRev grows pot in winter with S9 heat:https://twitter.com/HodlRev/status/1658646760510586880
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"e-pock" vs "eh-pock" poll: https://twitter.com/bitkite/status/1661776382223892482
Rob Warren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BikesandBitcoin
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distributed hash on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashdistributed
Rod @bitkite on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitkite
Econoalchemist on Twitter: https://twitter.com/econoalchemist
Rod @bitkite on nostr: npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3
Econoalchemist on nostr: npub10m6lrv2kaf08a8um0plhj5dj6yqlw7qxzeag6393z352zrs0e5nsr2tff3
Bitcoin Park on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_
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