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Evan Baer
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Building @Rigly + Upendo Hashrate marketplace with non-custodial escrow - rigly.io Solo mine with bitcoiners - upendo.rigly.io

In the future, we will (hopefully) look back on two eras of mining

The old era, when mining was endless competition

The new era, when mining was never ending cooperation

Try out the platform

What made sense?

What didn’t?

Does it pull you by the nostrils? 👃

Replying to Avatar Soak Quest

Founders are a rare breed.

They’re the ones who break through the fear of being judged and actually build something.

In the Bitcoin circular economy, there’s an arbitrage opportunity, not just in the products, but in recognizing and supporting the people who have the guts to try.

Most startups don’t work.

And often, it’s not because the idea was bad—but because no one was honest with the founder about product-market fit.

Here’s the truth:

If you think you have product-market fit, you don’t.

You know when you have it.

Product-market fit feels like being yanked forward by both nostrils.

Your servers break.

Your inbox explodes.

Customers are mad—not because they hate it, but because they want more.

You can’t think about anything else because the demand is overwhelming.

Some describe it like wearing a hot dog suit in a wolf pack.

Everyone wants what you have.

That should be the bar for products in the Bitcoin economy.

You can’t fake product-market fit. Not as a founder, and not as a customer.

As a founder, you either solve a real problem better than anything else, or you create an experience that changes people’s lives.

As a customer, you either feel it—or you don’t.

That’s what’s WorthTheSats.

The opportunity we have is twofold:

1. Be honest with founders.

Help them learn whether they’ve hit product-market fit or not—fast.

2. Support the ones who keep building.

Even if the first thing doesn’t work, we should recognize the founder mindset. That savage energy is rare. You can teach product testing. You can’t teach the drive to build.

So try products.

Give honest feedback.

Help founders see where to pivot or double down.

That’s how we build the Bitcoin economy—by honoring time, talent, and truth.

I’m thinking more like an opt-in protocol.

It’s an interesting thought experiment, because every miner would benefit from lower difficulty - small miners and bitaxes especially - but coordination is a hard problem.

Mining is an competitive arms race.

If there was a way for miners to cooperate, they could all shut off an equal % of ASICs, and earn the same amount of bitcoin with far less cost.

What prevents this from happening?

Gm nostr

New auctions posted for April 26th block party

Gm Nostr

Happy Sunday

Block party solo mining vibe

Block party is up and running

Still a few auctions for late arrivals

Join us and try to mine a block

Bids start from 100 sats

https://upendo.rigly.io

I started the Upendo block party because it should be easy to spend a few sats and try to mine a block.

Why a block party?

B/c mining with other people improves the odds - and you still get the outsize reward incentive of solo mining

Why a block party auction?

Auctions allow early miners to get in for a low bid, and as more people join, higher bids go towards buying more hashrate, improving the odds for the whole party. It's like a flywheel.

How often?

The block party occurs on Saturday every few weeks.

Where do I sign up?

https://upendo.rigly.io

you know what they say about coincidences..