014. State of the Network, News, Tangents, Home Miner of the Week, DM Dive

Date: April 20, 2023
Block Height: 786265
How many days until the halving: 373 according to https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/
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 @_business_cat & “oneexahash” for pointing hash to us!

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:

• Iris Energy goes from 3.6 EH/s to 4.6 EH/s in a week https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/04/20/2650896/0/en/Iris-Energy-provides-5-5-EH-s-installation-update.html
• Bitcoin-Mining Blockscale Chips, No Future Gens Announced https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-discontinues-bitcoin-mining-blockscale-chips-no-future-gens-announced
• EU increases Bitcoin Mining tax rate by 6,000%!?https://twitter.com/JMellerud/status/1647174399714291712CoinDesk Link: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/04/14/sweden-drives-final-nail-into-its-bitcoin-mining-industry-with-tax-hike/
• Stratum v2 reference implementation is out: https://twitter.com/StratumV2/status/1646542195233640454

Home Miner of the Week: @mrcdbrown3 & Bryce repairing S19 Hydro Hashboards at their KY mining site:https://twitter.com/mrcdbrown3/status/1648913811145912322
Rod @bitkite on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitkite
Econoalchemist on Twitter: https://twitter.com/econoalchemist
Rod @bitkite on nostr: npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3
Econoalchemist on nostr: npub10m6lrv2kaf08a8um0plhj5dj6yqlw7qxzeag6393z352zrs0e5nsr2tff3
Bitcoin Park on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_
POD256 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pod256