036. No Holds Barred w/ Special Guest: BASSLOAD - Energy Procurement Consultant, State of the Network, Tangents

Date: February 14, 2024
State of the Network:
Block Height: 830468
According to our friends at newhedge.io: Bitcoin difficulty is 70.3T and set to increase ~7% at the conclusion of epoch 411
Looking at mempool.space: Hashrate is printing 568Eh on the 14-day MA
Heading over to insights.braiins.com: Hashvalue is currently 180 sats/TH/day.
Days until the Halving: 63 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, Knockers, the_80085_petahash_bitaxe, 818_reposado_tequila_on_iceso_smooth_yooper, coconuts, and dont_have_a_cow_man_yh for supporting the podcast with their hashrate
Special Guest: BASSLOAD, Energy Procurement Consultant

• BASSLOAD on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinbassload
• BASSLOAD’s Substack: https://bitcoinbassload.substack.com/

Questions from Twitter:
https://twitter.com/econoalchemist/status/1757591539654496548

• From Travis Bitckle: Say I have $0.055/kWh power. What do I do? Keep running my jPros, upgrade to latest gen machines, or mortgage the house and install 1,000 amp service? https://twitter.com/bitckle/status/1757602533453828179
• From likewhoa: How many offgrid Watts are needed to make the Feds per their pants? https://twitter.com/likewh1a/status/1757599448392159352
• From Hundredaire: I have a question: what is a PPA? https://twitter.com/Mr_Hundredaire/status/1757728066481127681
• From Justa Pleb/21M: How to train an army of gorilla #Bitcoin miners to stand up data centers around the world to secure the best money the world has ever had. https://twitter.com/JimJones1913/status/1757592488792228194
• Barnminer’s question: Please explain the difference between PPA and other energy  agreements. How often does the mining industry mislabel PPA when, in fact, it is not?

Rod @bitkite on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitkite
Econoalchemist on Twitter: https://twitter.com/econoalchemist
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