046. No Holds Barred w/ Special Guest: Luke Dashjr, Chairman & CTO - OCEAN, State of the Network, Tangents

Date: May 22, 2024State of the Network:Block Height: 844622 - Rod/Eco to updateAccording to our friends at newhedge.io: Bitcoin difficulty is 83.1 Trillion and set to increase roughly 1% at the conclusion of epoch 418 which should be on Thursday the 23rd.Over 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 October.Moving over to mempool.space: Hashrate is currently estimated to be 591Eh, down from the all time high of 639Eh on April 27th.Taking a look at insights.braiins.com: Hashvalue is currently 80k sats/Ph/day and Hashprice is $56/Ph/DayThe halving is due in: 1,407 days according to https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/halvingShout out to our miners: “bikesandbitcoinhowlongcanthesenamesbeistheguestreallygoingtoreadthiswholethingicantbelieveits”, “bikesandbitcoin”, “bikesandbitcointangent(youhavetosayitloud,though)”, “reedsminersarenotforprofit”,”dotthedraht”, “bitaxewannabejustans17pro”, and “blizzabler”. And shout out to our Public Pool miners: “Boerst” and “FOSS||GTFO”. Special 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/Samourai Wallet Defense Donations: https://p2prights.org/Special Guest: Luke Dashjr, Chairman & CTO - OCEANLuke Dashjr on Twitter: https://x.com/LukeDashjrOCEAN on Twitter: https://x.com/OCEAN_miningOCEAN’s website: https://ocean.xyz/Rod @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