013. State of the Network, News, Tangents, Home Miner of the Week, Special Guest: Tom Masiero, Co-Founder - Standard Bitcoin Co.

POD256 | Bitcoin Mining News & Analysis

Date: April 13, 2023

Block Height: 785232

How many days until the halving: 380 according to https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/

Stream Sats, Point Hash:

• Shout out to @_business_cat & @ChadFarrow for pointing hash to us!

• 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.

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:

• Foundry has received 50% of all new hashrate according to No BS Bitcoin: https://twitter.com/nobsbitcoin/status/1641236502641360897

• Foundry charging fees

• 1EH pointed to solo CK Pool resulting in two block finds: https://twitter.com/ckpooldev/status/1640591355037745152

Home Miner of the Week:

• @bitckle with the clean S19 trifecta: https://twitter.com/bitckle/status/1645969834130264065

Special Guest: Tom Masiero, Co-Founder - Standard Bitcoin Co.

• Why is Lightning a shitcoin? https://twitter.com/TheStandardBTC/status/1646342149556916227

• Controversial mining opinions: https://twitter.com/TheStandardBTC/status/1643425875973529600

Standard Bitcoin website: https://standardbitcoin.com/

Standard Bitcoin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheStandardBTC

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