018. State of the Network, News, Tangents, Home Miner of the Week

POD256 | Bitcoin Mining News & Analysis

Date: May 18, 2023

Block Height: 790339

How many days until the halving: 345 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”, & a new one this week: “plebminerhottub” coming in hot with nearly 12Th!

Econoalchemist’s Bech32 poll: https://twitter.com/econoalchemist/status/1659234075721252864

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:

• Harry Sudock joins Bitcoin Park: https://twitter.com/harry_sudock/status/1658966687880757250

• Tether investing 15% of their profits in bitcoin: https://www.theblock.co/post/231156/tether-bitcoin-investments-profits?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

• WhatsMiner M50S++: https://twitter.com/BikesandBitcoin/status/1659193910403665923

Home Miner of the Week:

• @Schnitzel with the immersion system in a cooler!:

  https://twitter.com/Schnitzel/status/1658950905025163267

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_

POD256 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pod256