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Just got two bitaxes, but having issues getting them hashing. They’re on 2.4ghz wifi, tried multiple without success. Any advice on troubleshooting?

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Probably a good call - OpenSats is more important than podcast appearances!

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mining is incredible

Mining, through the "Proof-of-Work" algorithm, is a crucial component for bitcoin to function as a global, borderless, secure, uncensorable, and fair form of currency where everyone is treated equally, regardless of where they happen to be born. No other cryptocurrency possesses these characteristics, and this is what makes bitcoin unique. The decentralized structure of the bitcoin network, with nodes and miners, ensures that there will never be more than a total of 21 million bitcoin; it is a form of currency that cannot be inflated. Bitcoin miners around the world purchase large amounts of energy, which they use to power specialized hardware to secure a share of the total. From its inception in 2009 until around 2140, bitcoin is in a distribution phase. The total supply will be distributed, in the form of gradually decreasing subsidies, to miners who help write transactions into the blockchain.

Miners participate in something that resembles a lottery. Those who produce a hash with a low enough number are allowed to write the next batch of transactions into the blockchain and are rewarded with transaction fees and the aforementioned subsidy. It is precisely this lottery that makes bitcoin uncensorable, as it is random who wins the right to write transactions. The only way to influence the probability of winning is by putting in more work in the form of energy. Vladimir Putin may be able to order Russian miners to refuse bitcoin transactions going to addresses controlled by Navalny's organization. However, as long as there are enough miners outside of Russia's borders who accept transactions that pay fees, the attempt at censorship is futile.

In this system, Putin and I play by the same rules.

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I turn 52 today 🥳

As a gift to myself I want to share the following with you:

We are smack in the middle of a war of ideas, and I'll tell you why this is good.

The battle is between us - the people - and the political class.

And winning requires that we constantly learn new, actionable ideas.

However, this isn't just an imperative.

Once we throw ourselves into the battle, we develop a passion for it.

You may have experienced it yourself:

Meeting new people and sharing and developing new ideas together with them is wonderful.

You discover that when positive, creative people get together, 1 + 1 is never 2.

When we meet, physically or digitally or we just read each others' writings, we often identify ideas that the other person didn't have before, enabling us to create new knowledge and more understanding together.

And sometimes, when you and I combine our ideas, we develop things that the world hasn't seen or heard before.

It might not be a gigantic innovation, and normally it's just a very, very small thing.

But it's our joint appreciation of the process itself that is so immensely rewarding.

Because we realize that 1 + 1 in the social and intellectual domain more often than not is 3, 10, 1000 a million or more.

Magical is the only way to describe this process, which is reserved to us alone, the humankind.

When this happens, you also realize that there isn't any limit to what we can achieve with more knowledge and understanding.

Immersing me in this form of social interaction gives me a constant dopamin rush.

I'm addicted.

Don't you ever force me into rehab.

Have a nice day ❤️

Gratulerer med dagen!

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I don't think you're way off mark on this one. Without being an expert on QC there is no doubt that multisig dramatically increases your security. I assume spearphishing wales will be the activity of choice for attackers for the foreseeable future, not employing incredible computing power to poke holes in the piggy banks of the average pleb..