007. State of the Network, Industrial Scale Miner Consolidation, Special Guest: Casey Rodarmor

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11 February 2023

007. State of the Network, Industrial Scale Miner Consolidation, Special Guest: Casey Rodarmor - Creator of Ordinals - E7

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Date: February 9, 2023
Block Height: 775,769
446 days until the halving according to https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/
0:00 Intro
1:32 State of the Network
11:54 The News
27:55 Home Miner of the Week
31:23 No Holds Barred with Casey Rodarmor
1:39:43 Closing Thoughts
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.worker1" as the worker name, or add your own name to the end for a shoutout on the pod
State of the Network

Bitrawr - difficulty estimator: https://www.bitrawr.com/difficulty-estimator
Mempool.space - hashrate & difficulty: https://mempool.space/
ASIC prices - Hashrate Index from Luxor: https://data.hashrateindex.com/asic-index-data
Hashvalue - Braiins insights: https://insights.braiins.com/en/

News:

Consolidation: https://twitter.com/balmy_investor/status/1622932939553087491
Energy arbitrage: https://twitter.com/JMellerud/status/1621438864748339200
Checkers vs Chess: https://twitter.com/dochex/status/1622997209099776007OQyl6A
Fedipool, potentially mitigating mining pool concerns:
Tweet: https://twitter.com/ODELL/status/1622657279056027650
Article: https://www.discreetlog.com/fedipool/

Home Miner of the Week:

@zbomstaz on Twitter demonstrates hashing with an S19 board using an S9 power supply: https://twitter.com/zbomstaz/status/1623483823903363075
Tag your favorite home miner setup using #POD256