There are still people that think the lockdowns were justified, much like how there were still people in 2007 that thought invading Iraq was justified.

Halving Progress: 4% @ Block 848,400

You cannot put the same savings in both Bitcoin & Monero. They are mutually exclusive networks. You can put the same savings into Bitcoin & have it on a privacy layer built on top of Bitcoin. This, plus Monero's higher inflation rate & the larger scaling challenges, is why it doesn't make much sense to hold Monero at all.

It's not about religious devotion. It's about the unforgiving nature of monetary network effects.

Nodes defend the network from miners doing invalid stuff.

Miners defend the network from other miners doing valid but malicious stuff.

The latter point is being forgotten.

The essence of "bitcoin-only" is not about excluding or removing features that are related to "crypto" from a given product, it's about not wasting time and resources on creating them to begin with.

lol it’s funny to me that this woman believes men have to hate each other to compete with one another.

Quite the contrary. For men competition is the default. Our entire lives are one endless competition.

Being competitive with friends is done (usually) out of love.

By competing in a safe environment with people who have your best interest at heart, it allows you to level up.

Iron sharpens iron.

The feminine mind cannot comprehend this.

Daily*

1 Bitaxe = 1 free zap

I attended BTC Prague 2024 as a contributor to Stratum Reference Implementation (SRI)

I helped the SRI community deliver a hands-on workshop during HRF dev/hack/day. We had very positive engagement from Hashlabs Mining.

We also spoke with some relevant industry players, including:

- Demand, which is trailblazing SV2 adoption with the Job Declaration protocol. I'm very bullish on how they are decentralizing mining by allowing their hashers to select transactions.

- Braiins, which gave us a sample of their new BMM100 (SV2 enabled Home Miner). It will allow us to test SV2 interoperability between SRI and BOS firmware.

- Marathon, which gave us a sample of their new UCB2100 (Antminer Control Board).

- Ocean, whose community of hashers could benefit from an off-the-shelf FOSS SV1 Proxy solution and reduce the incidence of empty blocks being mined on their pool.

My key takeaways with regards to SV2 adoption:

- Demand is writing some awesome libs based on SRI. I'm excited to record some live coding screencasts with @Fi3 and share that knowledge with the community.

- The Bitcoin mining industry has fragmented SV1 standards

- players are eager for SV2 enabled firmware but also working new standards for encryption and binary encoding on SV1

- FOSS SV2 firmware has great potential to boost adoption (e.g.: github.com/plebhash/cgminer-sv2 🙏)

- Industry players will adopt SV2 when they are ready, and this will be a gradual transition.

- Bitcoin is at its healthiest when hashpower flows easily across different pools

- INTEROPERABILITY INTEROPERABILITY INTEROPERABILITY

⛏️ plebs be hashin ⚡

Happy Father’s Day from me and baby Hercules

During the holiday of Eid al-Adha, a ton of people in Cairo take trips to resorts along the coast.

As a result, the streets of Cairo that are normally jam-packed with some of the worst traffic in the world become remarkably drivable.

It’s like the difference between driving in the middle of the night vs rush hour, except this state of emptiness lasts for many days.

So, we use the opportunity to stay in Cairo, and drive to all the further parts of the city that are normally a nightmare to get to.

30 hours of airplanes means 30 hours without eating.

Wish me luck kings.

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meta data: 28% of MintGreen wages were paid in #Bitcoin (3yr high)

If you don’t take self-custody of your Bitcoin it belongs to the state they just haven’t taken it yet.