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 News & Analysis

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

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