038. State of the Network, News, Tangents, Home Miner of the Week

Date: February 29, 2024We did record with our guest imgislost, however we collectively decided that for privacy reasons, it would be best not to publish the recording.The 256 Foundation Telegram group: https://t.me/the256foundationState of the Network: Block Height: 832577According to our friends at newhedge.io: Bitcoin difficulty is 81.7 Trillion and set to decrease roughly 3% at the conclusion of epoch 412, making it the only difficulty adjustment to land on a leap-year day in Bitcoin’s history! Looking at mempool.space: Hashrate is currently estimated to be 569Eh on the 14-day moving average, down slightly from a recent all time high of 581Eh.Heading over to insights.braiins.com: Hashvalue is currently 170sats/TH/day.Days until the Halving: 49 days according to https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/halvingStream 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:3333Then use "pod256.YourAlias" as the worker name.Shout out to: Blizzabler, “the_80085_petahash_bitaxe”, “bitaxewannabejustans17pro”, “hodl_pins_dot_com_by_yooper_and_son_iykyk”, “bitaxeswimmingking”, “slap_my_bitaxe_and_tell_me_you_love_me”, “africaone”, “hooters”, and “hashtub-at-bitcoinpark” for supporting the podcast with their hashrate.News:Bitcoin Mining Survey stopped dead in its tracks by Riot: https://www.reuters.com/technology/eia-temporarily-suspend-bitcoin-miner-survey-after-lawsuit-court-document-2024-02-23/https://twitter.com/ab_brammer/status/1762609140281557296Riot Purchases 31,500 Miners From MicroBT to Enhance and Expand Self-Mining Operations at Its Rockdale Facility: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/02/27/2836095/0/en/Riot-Purchases-31-500-Miners-From-MicroBT-to-Enhance-and-Expand-Self-Mining-Operations-at-Its-Rockdale-Facility.htmlThe Future is Unwritten, Know Your Rights: https://twitter.com/denimbtc/status/1762989527130403271Home Miner of the Week:@HodlRev with the canola oil immersion setup doubling as a maple sap concentrator for making high quality syrup: https://twitter.com/hodlrev/status/1760998502161666259Rod @bitkite on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitkiteEconoalchemist on Twitter: https://twitter.com/econoalchemistRod @bitkite on nostr: npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3Econoalchemist on nostr: npub10m6lrv2kaf08a8um0plhj5dj6yqlw7qxzeag6393z352zrs0e5nsr2tff3Bitcoin Park on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_POD256 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pod256