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

Date: April 18, 2024State of the Network: Block Height: 839818According to our friends at newhedge.io: Bitcoin difficulty is 86.3 Trillion and set to decrease roughly 1.8%% at the conclusion of epoch 416 which should be on Wednesday the 24thOver at Hashrate Index: https://data.hashrateindex.com/asic-index-data: Miners under 25J/Th are selling for roughly $12.21/Th at the moment, which has been relatively flat since OctoberLooking at mempool.space: Hashrate is currently estimated to be 629Eh, setting a new ATH going into the halvingHeading over to insights.braiins.com: Hashvalue is currently 160k sats/PH/day and Hashprice is $102/Ph/DayDays until the Halving: 1 day according to https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/halvingSpecial Thanks to Barnminer for generously donating a portion of sales from his grass fed beef jerky during the whole month of April. You can support an awesome bitcoiner, get great quality beef jerky, and support POD256 by visiting: https://barnjerky.hashrootsinc.io/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:3333Then use "pod256.YourAlias" as the worker nameShout out to: “boerst” & “FOSS || GTFO” from Public Pool.“Bitaxewannabejustans17pro”, “dotthedraht”, “bikesandbitcoinhowlongcanthesenamesbeistheguestreallygoingtoreadthiswholethingicantbelieveits”, “reedsminersarenotforprofit”, “bikesandbitcoin”, and “hodl_pins_dot_com_by_yooper_and_son_iykyk” from Lincoin.News:Braiins deploying Lightning payouts: https://twitter.com/BraiinsMining/status/1780975851737072085@skot9000 says, “REJECT MINING CENTRALIZATION”: https://twitter.com/skot9000/status/1780799683830411426@mononautical claims, “A single custodian now controls the coinbase addresses of at least 9 pools, representing 47% of total hashrate.”: https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1777686545715089605@0xB10C’s supporting tweet thread: https://twitter.com/0xB10C/status/1780611768081121700Home Miner of The Week:@SoftwarmLLC shows off the install of “one half of a split unit that utilizes a temperature controller to dump heat as required”https://twitter.com/SoftwarmLLC/status/1780107019254698271Rod @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