022. State of the Network, News, Tangents, Home Miner of the Week, w/ Special Guest: Michael Schmid aka Schnitzel, CTO - amazee.io & Home Miner

POD256 | Bitcoin Mining News & Analysis

Date: June 15, 2023

Block Height: 794481

How many days until the halving: 316 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 @BikesandBitcoin, “lonelypumpkins”, Business Cat’s podcast: “rockpaperbitcoinpodcast”, “Blizzabler”, and “karens_storage_120v_single_boardt19”

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:

• ​​From the No Bullshit Bitcoin news desk, Blockstream announces plans to launch their ASIC in Q3 2024: https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/blockstream-miner-q3-2024/

• @karimhelpme on Twitter, published article on a nonce analysis methodology to determine how many of each miner model are hashing: https://twitter.com/karimhelpme/status/1668592283871244288

Home Miner of the Week:

• @MoneyMknMachine with the 3D printed air filters: https://twitter.com/MoneyMknMachine/status/1668093195857670144

Question from the audience for Schnitzel:

• @Richard11409974 on Twitter writes: “How are you as a miner prepping for the halvening?”

Schnitzel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Schnitzel

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