I’ve been hobby mining for a while—super fun, and I’ve learned a lot.

Lately, I’ve been bidding on #mining farm auctions for rented hashrate, which is a blast too.

Home mining’s tricky with power and gear costs, and profitability can be challenging .

Enter rigly.io—the site I’ve been using for auctions. I fumbled some settings and messed up a bit, but their tech support got me sorted out.

Rigly seems solid: you definitely get the #hashrate you pay for, sent wherever you want. #Bid smart, and you’ll score some freshly mined #BTC.

Anyone else feel dirty buying alts?

More buildings like this.. Bring back craftsmanship and art.

Looking back at my #Bitcoin maxi journey, it took way too many signposts from the Universe for me to build the type of conviction I have today…

Shortly dated a girl in college that was CPU mining in late 2009

Best man transacted on Silk Road and at one point held 10k+ coins

Married a Salvadoreña 5 years before El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as national currency

Assigned a new-hire engineer in 2019 who somehow got me to read The Bitcoin Standard in the depths of the bear market while I was a Buffett fanboy

Hit $100k for the first time on my 36th birthday, which marked three full zodiac cycles

Let me tell you something about skateboarding…

In the pursuit of landing a 360 flip, you will fall 1,000 times. Really. You will EAT SHIT on pavement. You’re gonna get smoked a lot of times. And you continue to *literally* pick yourself up from the pavement and try again. It ingrains a sense of determination in you. I don’t care how many times I fall because I WILL land my trick.

Consistency and determination make you an unstoppable force.

When I disappear from here to never return, know that I've achieved and exercising my self sovereignty and probably also just busy multiplying.

This is our non-Chinese bitcoin mining chip.

And it’s a way bigger deal than you think 👇

Six years ago, when I joined Braiins, we had a mining pool. The world’s first.

Then we launched custom firmware—now powering gigawatts of miners worldwide.

Last year we dropped Braiins Manager. A cloud platform giving miners full control over their farms.

BUT THE BIGGEST ISSUE REMAINED UNTOUCHED

Hardware centralization.

For years, Bitmain has controlled over 70% of the global market.

And we’ve been loud about the need for competition.

So instead of waiting, we built.

This week, Braiins Bitcoin Silicon arrived in our Prague office. Our first test ASIC chips.

🫡 2.5 years of hardcore R&D.

🚀 Big skin in the game (shoutout to Firefish for helping us collateralize—not sell—our bitcoin 🧡).

Exciting times, BUT…

The work is just beginning.

And it must be done.

Join our mission!

GOOD MORNING

HAPPY PRINTING 🫡

Good morning, Nostr. Please pray for my baby girl, who's been in the NICU for a while since my wife's emergency C-section due to preeclampsia. She's improving, but I won't rest easy until we can bring her home.

Any recommendations on the best / cheapest way to transfer funds from a bank account in one country to a bank account in another?

Haven't done this in a few years, but interbank transfers like that are expensive. Last time I did this, I used a 3rd party that facilitated it via the currency markets but it was rather convoluted to get it all set up.

Is there a more modern way folks can recommend?

Finished reading this book and I can highly recommend it! 💜

The book is comprised of 3 parts: Opium, Coffee and Mescaline.

So I thought I’d share a few thoughts on each bit.

Opium

I finished reading this chapter just as Ross Ulbricht was being released from jail.

Ross was sent to jail with a double life sentence plus 40 years, and was released after 10, for creating a website that enabled people to purchase anything, including drugs.

His treatment contrasts starkly with the Sacklers, who are discussed in this book.

The Sacklers empire created an exceptionally addictive pharmaceutical drug. They had direct knowledge of its impact and fully supported its sales and marketing. That drug, OxyContin, directly destroyed innumerable lives. And yet…not one single jail term. Not one single criminal charge for any of the individuals involved. Paid some fines. Dissolved the business.

The whole episode perfectly illustrated just how misguided the US administration’s war on drugs actually is, and seemed to underline Pollan’s thoughts on the matter in this book.

Coffee

Really interesting chapter that included a lot of history that was eye opening.

The impact on sleep was not what I was expecting but it explains a few things.

Made some adjustments to my coffee intake but I haven’t, as yet, decided to give it up!

Mescaline

This chapter surprised me the most!

The author describes a Mescaline trip. I was struck by the similarity of the trip to a very deep Mindfulness meditation. Done properly, with eyes open and senses brought to the fore, experiences are so magnified that they seem to have very similar effects.

‘The immensity of existing things’ is exactly how it can feel. Leaving the conscious mind aside and connecting to the unconscious with intense awareness.

It was a surprise to me that I’ve been hacking my brain to mimic a mescaline trip 😂💜

It was also interesting to read how Native Americans use mescaline for self-healing (physical,mental and spiritual).

It had me wondering if mescaline was a way to achieve a deep mindfulness meditation without the hassle of learning how to do it or for people that find it difficult to practice.

I’m guessing that a mescaline trip would likely be a more pure experience as the conscious mind would be tamed for a much longer period.

All in all, it was a fascinating read.

I’m a firm believer that books are called to you at a time when you’re ready for them and sometimes that timing syncs with world events. It certainly felt like that with this one! 💜

#bookstr

GM nostr 🫂

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