012. State of the Network, News, Tangents, Home Miner of the Week, No Holds Barred w/ Special Guest Ethan Vera, Co-Founder & COO - Luxor Mining

POD256 | Bitcoin Mining News & Analysis

Date: March 16, 2023

Block Height: 781,078

How many days until the halving: 409 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, @ChadFarrow, & @proofofworkbook!

State of the Network:

• Bitrawr - difficulty estimator: https://www.bitrawr.com/difficulty-estimator

• Mempool.space - hashrate & difficulty: https://mempool.space/

• https://twitter.com/murchandamus/status/1633544944659865607

• ASIC prices - Hashrate Index from Luxor: https://data.hashrateindex.com/asic-index-data

• Hashvalue - Braiins insights: https://insights.braiins.com/en/

News:

• Biden proposes 30% tax on electricity used from Bitcoin mining: https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1633933119920168965

• From CoinDesk: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/03/09/us-treasury-department-proposes-30-excise-tax-on-crypto-mining-firms/

Home Miner of the Week:

@bulldogordinals heating a shop in North Dakota with a miner:

https://twitter.com/bulldogordinals/status/1636177747822215169

No Holds Barred:

Ethan Vera, Co-Founder & COO - Luxor Mining

Luxor website: https://www.luxor.tech/

Firmware Link: https://luxor.tech/firmware

Miner trading desk: https://www.luxor.tech/rfq

Ethan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethan_vera

Luxor Mining on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LuxorTechTeam

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