028. No Holds Barred w/ Special Guest: Zack Bomsta, Founder - Pivotal Pleb Tech (Njord and Loki Boards) & Founder - Owlet

POD256 | Bitcoin Mining News & Analysis

Date: September 7th, 2023

Block Height: 806614

The halving is due in: 231 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: blizzabler, rockpaperbitcoinpodcast, plebminerhottub, 120v-ana-storage, 120v-karen-storage, & dotthedraht for supporting the podcast with their hashrate over the last few weeks.

No Holds Barred:

• Special Guest: Zack Bomsta, Founder - Pivotal Pleb Tech (Njord and Loki Boards) & Founder - Owlet

• Zack’s Njord and Loki boards for Bitmain bitcoin miners are enabling plebs to mine at home without having to upgrade their home’s electrical system while improving cooling and control.

• Zack’s company Pivotal Pleb Tech: https://pivotalpleb.com/

Guest Questions:

• @GeraldGlickman asks: “What are the other "unlocks" (@harry_sudock lingo) that are on the table and / or of high-leverage in the mining supply and value chain? For example: - Chip fab: 2 players forever? - Software layers (@skot9000 and team, OSS operation) - Pools: when a 0.01% pool fee?

• @btc2infinity asks: “When whatsminer? Lol”

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/

Zack Bomsta on Twitter: https://twitter.com/zbomstaz

Pivotal Pleb Tech on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PivotalPlebTech

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Rod @bitkite on nostr: npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3

Econoalchemist on nostr: npub10m6lrv2kaf08a8um0plhj5dj6yqlw7qxzeag6393z352zrs0e5nsr2tff3

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