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

POD256 | Bitcoin Mining News & Analysis

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

No Holds Barred:

Casey Rodarmor - Creator of Ordinals

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rodarmor

Ordinals website: https://ordinals.com/

Hell Money episode on Ordinals: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hell-money/id1625606860?i=1000597348222

Ordinals Discord: https://discord.gg/ordinals

Ordinals GitHub: https://github.com/casey/ord

Casey’s Opendimes video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLOlsa6K5TI

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

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

POD256 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pod256