Happy Thanksgiving!
Our kids are picking their Christmas gifts from the Tuttle Twins shop 👍
I will explain mining yields in detail with a much longer note. It's a good opportunity to showcase my permaculture approach to Bitcoin mining and the progression of home mining here at the homestead.
The most surface level yields from Bitcoin mining are the sats and the heat.
I mine with a FPPS pool which pays out sats proportional to the hash I contribute to the pool regardless if the pool finds a block or not. The FPPS pool structure is good for my situation because my hash is intermittent. My miners are only running when I need them to do work for me or when I have extra solar power.
The mining I do is transaction fee insurance because as the fees to transact on the network increase the amount of Bitcoin I mine increases proportionally. If I can't delay transactions until fees are more favorable the extra sats I'm earning from mining will subsidize the transactions I make during periods of high fees.
https://v.nostr.build/Zn4k.mp4
I don't think of the sats I earn from mining as free but more of a rebate on the cost of power usage from the work performed by my miners. Because I use an FPPS pool I don't need to expend extra energy in order to guarantee a payout. I get paid out proportionally to the hash I contribute at the time that I'm hashing. If I'm hashing I'm getting paid.
https://v.nostr.build/zeGd.mp4
I hope this clears up some of your questions when comes to yield, transaction insurance, and payouts when it comes to mining at home. Once again I am working on a longer for note that will breakdown home mining yields through the lense of permaculture.
#homesteading #permaculture #permies #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #homemining #homeminer #plebminer
Thanks I look forward to future posts! I also like the use of the permaculture lens on your activities.
I'm also glad you talk about intermittent mining. We have an old octapus furnace in our basement, which operates via thermosiphon rather than forced air.
It originally burned coal, now fuel oil. I've tested it with wood as well.
The plan would be to hook a miner up during winter to supplement our masonry heater.
It's that time of year here in NY where the freeze is upon us.
To keep from having to carry buckets of water to the animals as long as possible, I'm routing my hoses with a high point and then slopes with no dips to allow the water to run out after use.
Also an example of what not to do this time of year: letting your hoses coiled on the ground. They don't drain and you will be hauling water by hand.
Also: disconnect the hoses from the yard hydrant after use.
#farming #pigstr #grownostr #permaculture
Carnivore diet and chiropractor.
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It's like dipping it in concentrated milk. Great way to make it healthy.
I approve!
A thought came to me the other day... are the streets paved with gold in heaven because everyone uses #bitcoin?
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It’s been quite a week and quite a year. nostr:npub1e2rd2k45ym2jmctnysfadxumrvrr57vqj69ck6trt2y62c40r0kqs9lx8t and I are celebrating our first wedding anniversary today and our first full week of being parents to beautiful baby Sophia!
I hope y’all have great blessings in the days, weeks, and years ahead too!
Rock on man! Good for you guys!
Your little one all wrapped up reminds me of happy times!
Moving the girls out of the barn for winter in the treeline. Long time coming but I finally have an area fenced for them.
Plan is to breed them and have little ones come spring.
#pigstr #grownostr
I agree. Minerals. My wife takes magnesium when this happens and it helps.
Here is some art by my 5 year old.
Watercolor on watercolor paper.
He calls it "Me in the creepy cave". There are bats and spiders and monsters in the cave!
#art #artstr #kidart #grownostr
Today's steak blot art:
I thought this one was interesting! Looks like a clown to me.
#steakblotart #carnivore #grownostr #inkblotart
Tonight's steak blot art:
#steakblotart #inkblotart #grownostr #carnivore
The hours are about right for us. More towards the 4 hrs for our 9 year old (depending how stubborn she is) and maybe an hour or two for our 5 year old.
When they are not engaged in schoolwork it's just unstructured time. My daughter reads 2-3 long books a week, sews and crafts and my son plays and practices fighting moves. They play games together too.
My 9 year old lost a tooth.
How many sats are teeth going for these days?
#asknostr
Say hello to nostr:npub1e2rd2k45ym2jmctnysfadxumrvrr57vqj69ck6trt2y62c40r0kqs9lx8t and my little one!
Rebecca Sophia Bracco
Born 11-03-2023 7:58 PM 
Congratulations! That is awesome!
Certainly!