Congratulations to miner bc1q~9sj3 with 2.3PH for solving block number 301 on the EU solo.ckpoolorg A miner of this size has about a 1 in 2800 chance of solving a block every day, or once every 8 years on average.

Saw F1 at imax yesterday. Glad I went to imax because take away the visual and auditory spectacle and it's just vacuous childish plot and bad acting with countless factual errors and nonsense regarding F1 racing. Some real drivers were good sports to be part of the film though.

Funny followup story since this seemed to attract attention. Long after I forked cpuminer as cgminer, I was maintaining both source code for linux and osx users, and had to build windows binaries for windows users.

I'm often surprised by the reception I get to telling relatively old stories of bitcoin mining but I have to keep reminding myself how dynamic and ever-changing the landscape and audience is that has zero knowledge of the past.

Brainfart correction: It hasn't been 15 years, it's my 15th year in the space.

It's now been just over 15 years since I first contributed patches to cpuminer as my entry into the bitcoin world. What a ride it's been, and it still feels like we're just getting started.

I've put my bitaxe on there myself as moral support. Good luck to them!

These guys are launching in ~12 hours. Will be fun to watch, even you're not interested in joining.

In line with the 7.5% drop in bitcoin mining difficulty last difficulty period being weather related in Texas, we're over halfway through this difficulty period and on track for difficulty to increase almost exactly the same amount.

For classical music enthusiasts in Australia, ABC iview is broadcasting one of the finest live performances of Beethoven's 9th symphony with the MSO conducted by Jaime Martin I attended last year that was simply breathtaking, and the best concert I've ever been to.

Finally a response. I screenshot this myself since I wasn't sure if it was faked.

Any solo bitcoin miners out there interested in me opening an AU based solo ckpool for miners in the Oceania/Asia-Pacific region?

This pool is happening and currently undergoing open testing. It will be announced to the public in the near future, but if you find it, feel free to mine on there, just don't tell anyone where it is, okay?

Testing on the new au solo ckpool is showing all is well, and I should be able to officially open it by this weekend.

Once again, with a miner of this size, it's fair to assume they are renting hashrate. The giveaway is usually that the worker that solved the block is significantly larger than the size of any available mining hardware, meaning hashrate is being proxied together.

Meanwhile, from Australia's largest airline carrier. Is there anything else that could have been compromised? They may as well have been storing our passwords stored in clear text. FFS.

BTC may have had an all time high in USD, but not in EUR.

The new ausolo ckpool is chugging along nicely with just over 50 users. It has peaked above 15PH at one stage, but is hovering below 1PH for now, which is not entirely unexpected.

Bitcoin mining difficulty rose back to 126 trillion, almost exactly recovering the drop from the last difficulty period as Texas demand miners switch back on with milder weather. (There was never any substantial drop due to Iran being bombed.)

Sure, let’s not normalize for the growth in market cap of US stocks. In that spirit, 99.99% of consumers have record salary levels today, so the economy must be booming with so much money pouring in *broadly* across all income cohorts 🤔🤥🧐