Episode 25

025. State of the Network, News, Tangents, Home Miner of the Week, No Holds Barred w/ Special Guest: Bassload, Energy Procurement Consultant

POD256 | Bitcoin Mining, Freedom Tech, and Awesome Tangents

July 8, 20231h 25mFull

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Show Notes

Date: July 6, 2023
Block Height: 797447
How many days until the halving: 295 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 “blizzabler”, “lonelypumpkins”, “rockpaperbitcoinpodcast”, “lonelypumpkins2”, & “schnitzel-s19jpro-120v” for pointing hash to us!
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:

The State of the Network H1 2023: https://twitter.com/smidnico/status/1676272413032448002

Home Miner of the Week:

Bert de Groot getting some attention on his Bitcoin mining heated greenhouse in the Netherlands: https://twitter.com/LuxorTechTeam/status/1676235661681238017

Special Guest: Bassload, Energy Procurement Consultant
NHB:

chris palucci @PalucciChris - Is there any way to simultaneously use Asics that mining bitcoin and doing something else for another industry? https://twitter.com/PalucciChris/status/1676717202278428674
ColinCareful @ColinCareful - Why don't more mining pools make it easier to not reuse addresses? What info do you leak about your hash stack if you reuse an address? https://twitter.com/ColinCareful/status/1676729962139734020

Bassload on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinbassload
Bassload on Substack: https://bitcoinbassload.substack.com/
Rod @bitkite on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitkite
Econoalchemist on Twitter: https://twitter.com/econoalchemist
Rob Warren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BikesandBitcoin
Rod @bitkite on nostr: npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3
Econoalchemist on nostr: npub10m6lrv2kaf08a8um0plhj5dj6yqlw7qxzeag6393z352zrs0e5nsr2tff3
Bitcoin Park on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_
POD256 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pod256

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