Thoughts and hopes for 2024…
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For the Pleb home heating miners I found a nice 24”x16”x10” metal box from Vevor that fits an S19 nicely. The box has nice door seals and looks clean when installed.
The primary goal was to provide some level of fire protection and secondarily to reduce noise - especially the high pitch PSU fan noise.
A zip wheel in the grinder quickly cut out the ductwork holes (a hacksaw and drill would work too) then metal foil tape was used to secure the ductwork and cover the sharp edges of the power supply & ethernet hole.
An old exercise mat and some foam along with leftover styrofoam from the Vevor box packaging was cut down (and wrapped in foil tape) to help provide a cold/hot air barrier. An air filter was also cut down and added to the intake side.
Some redi-rod was cut to length and four holes drilled into the top of the box to allow it to hang from the ceiling. BTW the box comes with other hardware to bolt it to a wall if your install allows.
Note: the 6” ducting and 6” Cloudline fan from a previous S9 build is a bit small for the S19. At 2200 watts and with the Cloudline running at 100% the S19 factory fans run at 45% (this gives 84TH/s, 60c chips, and ~25W/Ths).
By far, most of the noise is the Cloudline fan. The PSU can’t be heard anymore. I’m sure an 8” fan (or bigger?) for extraction/ventilation would lower the noise but check the dimensions of the box to make sure it will fit. 
PSA: If you can afford an F350 you can afford mud flaps for it. #stoptherockchips
Santa showed up!! #braiins 
PSA: Christmas tradition with
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🎄CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: TONIGHT AT 5PM ET🎄 
Seen (not seen):
13 years ago Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared. 
GM. It would be weird to remove the laser eyes now.
And I wouldn’t recognize anyone.
The whole thing has upped my knowledge of the mining & pool process.
This knowledge upgrade is good for everyone especially pleb/home miners.
GM - and yes I consider you a philosopher as well nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc
An open thank you to all bitcoiners.
I had to stop listening to a podcast from Hidden Forces today. It finally recognized it for what it was - the same doom and gloom it always has been… "The West is failing, government is failing, society is failing etc”. No answers, just more identification of the failure. Definitely not any solutions there.
I switched over to my list of bitcoin podcasts. More nostr:npub1hrnt73hppyc5v9h7ynnv0cn90yd97t6we9dw32s46ug845jsm33sktjsct , nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe , nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a and nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z Pysh... and even nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx - yes even Pedro. Why? Because there is a hope in bitcoin. Maybe that is partly because we seem to have turned the corner on the bear market but mostly because bitcoiners are optimistic, building and moving forward.
Devs are creating new apps and fixing and improving old ones. Bitcoin philosphers are, well philosophizing (looking at your nostr:npub1mz704n7dsaw3jcj3kr5le45n97tqughyt5lxe3yv3xy3025hv3dsp5tl8g , nostr:npub1jdwujjpaxmeyg44fz5xa87yhtrnvg8lzqnv9hprk5sdkx6h58gjqwtujzl and Parker Lewis to name a few). Meetups are getting bigger and more people are taking their first steps into the bitcoin network. Meanwhile the Plebs are out educating and orange pilling every day.
Bitcoiners are hopeful and optimistic. We know there are problems - we’ve identified a host of them and we are working to fix what we can. Sure we might be bickering over what hardware wallet is truly FOSS, bitching about ordinals and debating mining protocols. But we are building and moving forward anyway.
Jeff Booth is right - there is no point in living in the old world. You simply feed it by engaging with it. Even listening to the old world is tiresome. I’ve moved into the new world, a world with Bitcoin and I don’t ever want to go back.
Burn the boats.
Excellent 15 minute intro video to bitcoin mining energy reuse and FUD debunking. #ReasonTV #bitcoinf
Inside the mouth of a T-Rex looking out. It’s cheek pouches on left/right and saliva glands in pink (wait… do reptiles have saliva?). #Inkblotart
The first 13.5 minutes of this keynote from Saylor is pure signal. Understand it and #bitcoin naturally follows.
Checkout be like…
Action shot of the running of the bulls in Pamplona.
Two bulls (top left/right) about to run down Crusty the Clown (center bottom).
With spectators on either side.
