Excuuuuuuuse me !

#Meoooooooooooow

With more and more websites blocking VPN IP address I'm finding myself using TOR Browser much more frequently. TOR brings additional anonymity, too, which is a benefit. Youtube is becoming increasingly difficult to use, too and apps like FreeTube and NewPipe are often unusable.

But damn it's obnoxious how surveilled and un-private the web has become.

I'm bullish on where we're headed though! Do you have any work-arounds or anything you're doing to retain as much privacy as possible?

#Privacy #YouTube #VPN #TOR

#seedoils #health #bitcoin #nostr #anarchyⒶ

It seems my life is coming to a circle instead of a fork in the road. I was born and raised on a farm and didn't leave it until I was 18. I've spent 20+ years working in a technical field in the city and living in the suburbs. Now my wife wants to start homesteading, and I get the feeling I might find peace in this. I enjoy farming. My dad owned a construction company and a farm, so I think I can manage a much smaller operation.

There's possibilities for an exciting new chapter for us.

#life

🚨 Block 879613 on Bitcoin, mined by MARA Pool, featured Donald Trump's face.

This tribute to the 47th president of the U.S., created via OP_RETURN, was cut short before the block was finalized, but part of it still made it onto the blockchain.

What’s your take on it?

Building business.

JUST IN - Trump: "Windmills are an economic and environmental disaster. I don't want even one built during my administration."

Interesting question for y’all

If Meta has spent billions on:

1. Buying its competitors (Instagram and WhatsApp)

2. Hypothetically banning its competitors (TikTok)

3. and Meta can’t buy or ban Nostr, what do y’all think they’re doing to incapacitate Nostr?

Your #success isn't measured by the square footage of your house.

Or the car you drive.

Or the watch you wear.

Or the zip code you live in.

The most fulfilled people I know?

They're building businesses that serve their lives, not consume them.

3-4 hours of focused work daily.

The rest? Actually living.

I think you’re wrong, people tend to help each other in times of need. An will probably not go down like in the movies…

Please read “Humankind: A Hopeful History”

Young Karnage: preppers are insane

Current Karnage: 🤔 I should be a prepper

Women are naughty....

😆🤣😂

#Meoooooooooow

So, looking at raw numbers with 50,000 devices:

Your individual odds = 1 in 50,000

Waiting time = 75-80 days

So you're looking at:

• A 0.002% chance of mining a block

• Waiting ~2.5 months for that tiny chance

With 1 million devices:

Your individual odds = 1 in 1,000,000

Waiting time = 3-5 days

That's:

• A 0.0001% chance of mining a block

• Every 3-5 days, someone in that million gets lucky

• But it's probably not you

However, these statistics are oversimplified. Here's how Bitcoin mining actually works:

Your real chance of mining a block = (Your hashrate / Total network hashrate)

For perspective:

• With 1 TH/s of mining power, odds are roughly 1 in 249,694,649 per block

• A new block is mined every ~10 minutes

• But it's a continuous probability game, not a scheduled event

When more devices join the network:

1. The total network hashrate increases

2. Your individual device's hashrate stays the same

3. Therefore, your relative share (and odds) decrease

So when they say 'a device will mine a block every X days,' it's misleading—it's a network-wide statistic, like saying 'someone will win the lottery every drawing.' It doesn't improve your individual device's chances; more competition actually makes your odds worse.

This is why solo mining has largely been replaced by industrial mining operations—the odds for individual miners have become increasingly unfavorable as the network has grown.

I don't gamble, and I don't play the lottery. These devices are fun and educational, but they are expensive lottery tickets with worse odds.