033. NEMS 2024 Recap, State of the Network, Tangents, News, Home Miner of the Week

Date: January 24, 2024
State of the Network:
Block Height: 827188
According to our friends at newhedge.io: Bitcoin difficulty is 70.3T and set to increase ~2% at the conclusion of epoch 410, which should be February 2nd
Looking at mempool.space: Hashrate is roughly 515Eh on the 14-day MA
Heading over to insights.braiins.com: Hashvalue is currently 190 sats/TH/day
Days until the Halving: 86 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: “hashtub-defroster”, “hashtub-at-bitcoinpark”, “miningsummit”, “candylandspeedboatbarn”, “rva-traveling-s9-nr3”, & Blizzabler for supporting the podcast with their hashrate. Thanks to Barnminer, BRocketMiner, and Schnitzel.
News:

• Nashville Energy & Mining Summit 2024 Schedule - bitcoinpark.com/schedule
• Samourai Writes letter to FinCEN.https://x.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1749784171239657472?s=20
• Tornado Cash developer, Roman Semenov, publishes video explaining the severity of precedence regarding his case and seeks donations toward his legal defense. https://x.com/rstormsf/status/1749490246000238942?s=20
• Parker Lewis - Gradually Then Suddenly https://twitter.com/parkeralewis/status/1748420277116064189

Home Miner of the Week: @Schnitzel with a shout out to @techengineer21

• Schnitzel’s HashTub: 
• https://twitter.com/Schnitzel/status/1748118490605633564
• https://twitter.com/PrestonPysh/status/1748173117082517612

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