You have every reason to be proud! Congrats!
Another significant point -- correct me someone if I get this wrong -- was that the decision to flip the bitcoin core version is made by the template creator. Imagine a BIP that the plebs don't support gets through but hashrate-contributors don't know until after the block is won? I assume this is another part of the transparency - the version the template is based on (created for?) will somehow be transparent *before* the block is won so we can pull our hashrate if need be
The others don't show the template and the transactions currently being worked on. The example given was that you're directing your hashpower toward a pool; they fill the block with one jpeg (which gets very low fees) but those contributing don't know that until after the block is won, and their work is rewarded less than it could have been
BTW I'm not defending any of this stuff just passing along what they said today
Well if enough small fry miners redirect their miners away from the big boy pools to this one it would be better than it is
- There is more to mining than simply hashing
- The other pools do everything else except the hashing (this is the part that is ~centralized), e.g. block templates, custody, perhaps filter certain transactions, perhaps return large fees unilaterally *cough* *f2pool* *cough*
- ocean doesn't do those things
Today's ocean talk was helpful, I learned something
just found out the hard way that the [whatever you call this] button in #amethyst evidently does not honor your block list
#nope

It looks unimpressed. Unenthusiastic about being cheesecake. "I was supposed to be a burger. Oh well."
we keep shipping at Strike
yesterday we turned on fiat card on-ramps for Mexico, Brazil, India, Vietnam, and Guatemala
today we released sending to Lightning Addresses. you can send fiat or bitcoin to a Lightning Address with Strike. here is a demo where I send nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx $10 from my bank account to his Lightning Address. we aren’t far away from cross-currency payments over the internet looking like sending an email over the internet
Strike Africa, Strike EU, Strike LatAm coming up next. looking to ship Africa before Christmas
stay humble, stack shipping 🚢🛳️⛴️ https://v.nostr.build/8KPa.mp4
So I just realized that this is a way to send fiat from my own bank acckint directly to lightning without opening channels or doing any swaps...now I get it 🤯
so *this* just came through

And now it's time for a little story called "The Government that Cried Wolf"

