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Bitcoin mining isn’t rocket science, it takes coordination and preparation. Cameron L Morrissey explains why cutting corners on staffing or cooling leaves operators chasing their tails. Think mining is just plug in and power up? Think again👇

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13,838 views • 7 months ago

Open source mining firmware + AI = unstoppable. ⚡ For years, people have tried to chase excess solar power with bitcoin miners. Stock firmware doesn't let you adjust power at all. Third-party firmware was too slow, some even restarted mining every time you changed the target. 256 Foundation & Ryan Kuester's Mujina just solved that. In this video: what I've been building with RY3T for their upcoming RY3T NOVA. ☀️ It tracks a power target anywhere from 1,000W to 3,000W, stepless, within seconds. Connect it to your inverter or smart home and turn excess solar into sats, instead of selling it back to the grid for pennies. NOVA scales to 1-3 miners, up to 9kW. 🔋 Learn more at (CH and EU currently - interested other places? let me know) A lot more coming in the next few weeks. Open source bitcoin mining hardware + software + AI is about to get very interesting. 🚀

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Eric Weinstein on Elon Musk: “His real company I think isn’t SpaceX, it’s xAI (Grok). I think he’s given up on the corruption of science. He keeps talking about the fact that he doesn’t like the term ‘researcher’ — he only believes in Engineers. I don’t think he doesn’t believe in scientists, I think he thinks science has gotten corrupt and he doesn’t want to deal with it. I think what he is doing is building Grok to do science in a world where humans are too corrupt to be truthful.” Interesting take. (Via Ranveer Allahbadia Podcast)

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SPACE MINING JUST GOT REAL—ODIN PROBE BLASTS OFF! A SpaceX Falcon rocket just launched Odin! It's a private spacecraft on a mission to scout an asteroid packed with platinum and other rare metals. What’s the plan? - 1 million miles away – Odin is chasing down asteroid 2022 OB5 over 300 days. - Scanning for treasure – High-res images will confirm if it’s a cosmic goldmine. - Next step? Landing. If it’s rich in metals, a second mission will drill straight in. AstroForge’s goal? Refine 1,000 kg of space metal in just three months and bring it back to Earth. The days of digging up our planet might be numbered—because the next mining rush is in space! Source: Sky News

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Mario Nawfal

385,154 views • 1 year ago

People have been saying that because the UASF succeeded in 2017, but BIP110 failed, it means the mining pools are now in charge. That the suitcoiners run Bitcoin. To the contrary, a clear picture of the balance of power between miners, ecosystem builders, and the nodes/users actually tells us why BIP110 failed, and the UASF succeeded. The difference isn't in Bitcoin being captured (regardless of any other changes good or bad), the difference is a misunderstanding of history and why the UASF won.

People have been saying that because the UASF succeeded in 2017, but BIP110 failed, it means the mining pools are now in charge. That the suitcoiners run Bitcoin. To the contrary, a clear picture of the balance of power between miners, ecosystem builders, and the nodes/users actually tells us why BIP110 failed, and the UASF succeeded. The difference isn't in Bitcoin being captured (regardless of any other changes good or bad), the difference is a misunderstanding of history and why the UASF won.

Guy Swann

50,217 views • 13 days ago

Fred Thiel Fred Thiel runs the largest public bitcoin miner. His number: a mining site costs about $1M per megawatt, all in. An AI site runs $10-15M per megawatt before a single GPU goes in. Same land, same power hookup, 10-15x the build cost. That's why Mara is converting, not mining. It already controls over 4GW after the Long Ridge and HIF deals, against 1.1GW of live mining today. The catch: Mara had no hyperscaler relationships and no build capability, so it's leaning on Starwood at 80% loan-to-value. The megawatts are real. The tenant demand is borrowed. Chase Lochmiller Chase Lochmiller of Crusoe makes the same energy-first case - the AI constraint isn't chips, it's power you can actually plug in. The tell for $MARA isn't hash rate anymore. It's how many of those gigawatts turn into signed AI leases. Thiel said it to Natalie Brunell Natalie Brunell ⚡️ on Coin Stories. How Mara funded the pivot and what breaks it:

Fred Thiel Fred Thiel runs the largest public bitcoin miner. His number: a mining site costs about $1M per megawatt, all in. An AI site runs $10-15M per megawatt before a single GPU goes in. Same land, same power hookup, 10-15x the build cost. That's why Mara is converting, not mining. It already controls over 4GW after the Long Ridge and HIF deals, against 1.1GW of live mining today. The catch: Mara had no hyperscaler relationships and no build capability, so it's leaning on Starwood at 80% loan-to-value. The megawatts are real. The tenant demand is borrowed. Chase Lochmiller Chase Lochmiller of Crusoe makes the same energy-first case - the AI constraint isn't chips, it's power you can actually plug in. The tell for $MARA isn't hash rate anymore. It's how many of those gigawatts turn into signed AI leases. Thiel said it to Natalie Brunell Natalie Brunell ⚡️ on Coin Stories. How Mara funded the pivot and what breaks it:

Podcast Alpha

35,196 views • 1 month ago

James Obrien takes a call off Kate from Ramsgate about her racist husband, regarding his comments about the Huntingdon train attack. Is it just me or does anyone think this is put up? Do people often go on a live show and grass their partner up for racism. 🤷‍♂️

James Obrien takes a call off Kate from Ramsgate about her racist husband, regarding his comments about the Huntingdon train attack. Is it just me or does anyone think this is put up? Do people often go on a live show and grass their partner up for racism. 🤷‍♂️

Patriotic 🇬🇧 Nation

96,777 views • 10 months ago