Date: April 18, 2024
State of the Network:
Block Height: 839818
According to our friends at newhedge.io: Bitcoin difficulty is 86.3 Trillion and set to decrease roughly 1.8%% at the conclusion of epoch 416 which should be on Wednesday the 24th
Over at Hashrate Index: https://data.hashrateindex.com/asic-index-data: Miners under 25J/Th are selling for roughly $12.21/Th at the moment, which has been relatively flat since October
Looking at mempool.space: Hashrate is currently estimated to be 629Eh, setting a new ATH going into the halving
Heading over to insights.braiins.com: Hashvalue is currently 160k sats/PH/day and Hashprice is $102/Ph/Day
Days until the Halving: 1 day according to https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/halving
Special Thanks to Barnminer for generously donating a portion of sales from his grass fed beef jerky during the whole month of April. You can support an awesome bitcoiner, get great quality beef jerky, and support POD256 by visiting: https://barnjerky.hashrootsinc.io/
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: “boerst” & “FOSS || GTFO” from Public Pool.“Bitaxewannabejustans17pro”, “dotthedraht”, “bikesandbitcoinhowlongcanthesenamesbeistheguestreallygoingtoreadthiswholethingicantbelieveits”, “reedsminersarenotforprofit”, “bikesandbitcoin”, and “hodl_pins_dot_com_by_yooper_and_son_iykyk” from Lincoin.
News:

• Braiins deploying Lightning payouts: https://twitter.com/BraiinsMining/status/1780975851737072085
• @skot9000 says, “REJECT MINING CENTRALIZATION”: https://twitter.com/skot9000/status/1780799683830411426
• @mononautical claims, “A single custodian now controls the coinbase addresses of at least 9 pools, representing 47% of total hashrate.”: https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1777686545715089605
• @0xB10C’s supporting tweet thread: https://twitter.com/0xB10C/status/1780611768081121700

Home Miner of The Week:

• @SoftwarmLLC shows off the install of “one half of a split unit that utilizes a temperature controller to dump heat as required”
• https://twitter.com/SoftwarmLLC/status/1780107019254698271

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