February 10, 2024

035. No Holds Barred w/ Special Guests: Wilson Mining, State of the Network, Tangents, News, Home Miner of the Week

1 hour 28 minutes

Date: February 7, 2024

State of the Network:

Block Height: 829415

According to our friends at newhedge.io: Bitcoin difficulty is 75.5T and set to increase between 7-12% at the conclusion of epoch 411, which should be close to Valentine’s Day

Looking at mempool.space: Hashrate is at an all-time-high, 565Eh on the 14-day MA

Heading over to insights.braiins.com: Hashvalue is currently 180 sats/TH/day

Days until the Halving: 70 days according to https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/halving

Stream Sats, Point Hash:

Pick any Lincoin URL:

a) stratum+tcp://NA.lincoin.com:3333

b) stratum+tcp://EU.lincoin.com:3333

c) stratum+tcp://LatAm.lincoin.com:3333

d) stratum+tcp://CIS.lincoin.com:3333

e) stratum+tcp://Asia.lincoin.com:3333

f) stratum+tcp://OC.lincoin.com:3333

g) stratum+tcp://Africa.lincoin.com:3333

Then use "pod256.YourAlias" as the worker name.

Shout out to: “80085”, “Blizzabler”, “coconuts”, & “dont_have_a_cow_manyh” for supporting the podcast with their hashrate

News:

TVA CEO Jeff Lyash quote: https://twitter.com/bitkite/status/1755304389990867063

Open source mining non-profit working name: The 256 Foundation

Special Guests: Eric and Steven Wilson of Wilson Mining

Wilson Mining website: https://wilsonmining.io/

Wilson Mining on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WilsonMining

Questions from Twitter: https://twitter.com/econoalchemist/status/1755001187492081902

From Nico: Looking forward to this one! Have two questions:

1. Does @WilsonMining expect that retail hosting companies in the US will start to participate (more) in demand response programs to keep retail hosting competitive? 2. Do they expect that retail hosting companies will start providing over/underclock options to allow retail miners to move with market condition so they can maximize profits? Thanks!! https://twitter.com/Smidnico/status/1755021174755483859

From Rob W.: How has the Midwestern winter treated them? https://twitter.com/BikesandBitcoin/status/1755027952427839768

From Coinheated: I'd ask: Are you expecting to operate in a negative after the halving, and if so, for how long could you do so in the negative? https://twitter.com/CoinHeated/status/1755028105750601892

From @skot9000: I saw your post about the tradeoffs between Antminers and Whatsminers with efficiency vs. reliability. Traditionally miners haven't valued reliability much since the machine is ewaste in a couple years anyways. Do you think this dynamic is changing?

https://x.com/skot9000/status/1755259689669910964

From Tyler Stevens: Are they doing anything with the waste heat? https://twitter.com/tylerkstevens/status/1755058068227068004

From Larrry Lasermind: You could ask them: What's easier in terms of setup, maintainance and cleaning: air-cooled or immersion? https://twitter.com/LarryLasermind/status/1755005251508191697

From @UploadingLogic: will you get a haircut when bitcoin wins? ever catched by an ASIC fan?https://x.com/UploadingLogic/status/1755258781133398446

From @GreaserRichard: Why are they mining Wilson instead of Bitcoin?https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1755230930594369722

Home Miner of the Week: @skot9000 unveils the bitaxeSupra with a BM1368 ASIC: https://x.com/skot9000/status/1755262407197303119

Rod @bitkite on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitkite

Econoalchemist on Twitter: https://twitter.com/econoalchemist

Rod @bitkite on nostr: npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3

Econoalchemist on nostr: npub10m6lrv2kaf08a8um0plhj5dj6yqlw7qxzeag6393z352zrs0e5nsr2tff3

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