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Many are obsessed with consuming more new content.

I think the value lies in going the other direction.

Shining a light on the amount of noise and perhaps even the existence of signal.

Gotta go back to go fwd

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Bitcoin miners give off a very low grade heat because it does not have a high temperature and when compared to quality heat sources, it gives off less heat as well. An engine for instance, has a very high temperature and is a high quality heat and gives off a boat load of heat. Heat reuse from a BTC miner is not efficient. There has to be a high heat differential between the heat that you are using and the ambient air for there to be a use case. That is not to say that you cant use some heat off a miner that could be useful when warming a bedroom or something like that. To justify that use case you would also need to have a high heat cost in the first place. There certainly are use cases, but to scale, its not an efficient heat source.

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Here's why there are deep incentives for a Bitcoin fork with the Ordinals people.

Ordinals/BRC-20/Inscriptions are now VC funded. And they're going to be pressured to keep growing, no matter what. Yet the hype around their stuff will inevitably fade. And whatever profits they had will dry up. So what will they do?

There are two paths. One is to increase revenue, the other is to reduce costs. The first will be very difficult to do without some new narrative. And they might try that, but it's going to be very difficult on Bitcoin... At least as it currently stands. They could move to another chain, but then, their whole reason for existence, being built on Bitcoin will be no more. Hence the incentive to create new narratives around their stuff and to add "features" to generate interest means some sort of fork.

The other path is to reduce costs. The most obvious cost is the fees being sent to miners. And to reduce that, you need to increase block size or make the blocks more frequent. Either way, this is incentivizing a fork.

The point is that once VC funding entered the picture, the path was set. There will be a conflict of visions and a "peaceful coexistence" was never going to be the outcome.

actually, no ... this is thermodynamics. there isn't "perspective" in thermodynamics

Unfortunately, the heat coming off miners is very poor quality heat.

We need more creative uses for waste heat.

Heat has a quality scale … high pressure, high temperature, high thermal capacity heat (steam) is the best.

Low temp, low pressure, low thermal capacity (ambient air) is poor quality.

Some of this is just thermodynamic fact … poor quality waste heat doesn’t generate electricity cost effectively.

Bitcoin mining is about the cheapest sources of electricity. The difficulty adjustment eventually punishes expensive sources of electricity applied to the network.

TL;DR - bitcoin does NOT fix this

The thing that really bothers me about gold is it’s betting on a regression for humanity. Gold fixes nothing in a world today that deals in commerce across space. At the end of the day golds best hope is we regress back to a trust model of “gold backed” fiat because gold is completely impractical for commerce as we know in the 21st digital century. It’s like begging to make the same mistakes we’ve already learned from and I personally find it incredibly depressing to think we go back to a standard where we have to trust an asset already paper traded 200-250:1 isn’t going to end up in catastrophe again. Bitcoin is truly our only hope.

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#ungovernable

This is so f'n cool! I'm running a single S19j Pro hashboard on an S9 power supply on a standard US 120V outlet!

All possible thanks to Zack Bomsta's Loki board!

A used S19j Pro feels like a sweet spot right now for a modern-enough miner at a relatively cheap price (~$8.25/Th; mines at break even around 11-12¢/kWh). But it pulls 3000W from a 240V line that most US households don't have.

But with the Loki boards, you can DIY one S19j Pro into three separate miners / space heaters. Each running on their own old S9 power supply which won't overload the typical 15A household circuit.

So now I can just plug in a ~35+Th/s miner in the coldest room of my mom's house!

see: pivotalpleb.com