Date: February 1, 2024

State of the Network: 

Block Height: 828411

According to our friends at newhedge.io: Bitcoin difficulty is 70.3T and set to increase ~6% at the conclusion of epoch 410 which should be in the next 24 hours or so

Looking at mempool.space: Hashrate is printing 526Eh on the 14-day Moving Average, with approximately 250k pending transactions, and transactions paying less than 24 sats/v-byte are currently being purged

Heading over to insights.braiins.com: Hashvalue is currently 190sats/TH/day

Days until the Halving: 78 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: Blizzabler, hashtub-defroster, and a new entity: 80085 for supporting the podcast with their hashrate

News:

• Bitcoin Mining Companies according to Hashrate Index/Luxor: https://twitter.com/bitkite/status/1752105948364030016
• Swan announces 4.5Eh mining operation is online with another 3.5Eh incoming:https://twitter.com/Swan/status/1750565936216649860
• APW12 unlock guide in the Pivotal Pleb Tech file repo: https://x.com/pivotalplebtech/status/1752418448490324364
• Announcement of Rob Warren’s book The Bitcoin Miners Almanac, published by Bitcoin Magazine: https://x.com/bikesandbitcoin/status/1752695082128466234

Home Miner of the Week: @bitcoingardener who “replaced all [his] s9 bitcoin heaters with loki kitted s19 #mine4heat builds”

• https://x.com/bitcoingardener/status/1752817557554221440

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