Bitcoin Miner since 2010, Gold Prospector. Libertarian for post-scarcity civilization.
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A deviation for me here but it's time for poker. This summer at the WSOP, I managed to only drag my ass across the money bubble for the $1000 Mystery Bounty, the $800 Summer Celebration and the $1000 Mini Main Event to get min cashes on all 3 with no deep runs. The Main Event was also a massive bust with me being sick both on Day 1D and Day 2D and being very short stacked throughout both days before being eliminated early on the second level of Day 2D.
I finally managed to bag a decent stack to be competitive on the brink of the money bubble in the $3000 Mid-Stakes Championship. We will continue this on Saturday for Day 2. There should be about 1000-1100 players reaching Day 2 as the two other Day 1 for this tournament will be much bigger as people bust from the Main Event.
The author of Project Hail Mary is openly agnostic (also known as the term used by atheist in the US that are too afraid to say they are atheist due to reprisal).
Yes, Hail Mary is named after the pass, that's about as far as it goes. It's a low probability play you make in desperation. The name Grace? If you take the time to read the book you'll see it's mentioned and ridiculed as stupid.
Furthermore, the movie discuss the existence of at least 3 different alien species, of which one is intelligent. How is that a Christian theme exactly? Also the "savior" plot, the dude got drugged and forcefully sedated against his will to be put on the ship, he's an unwilling actor. As far as I know, in the stories Jesus was not unwilling.
I just saw the much talked about film “Project Hail Mary.” It's very entertaining and uplifting and features a fine performance from Ryan Gosling. But what most intrigued me were the powerful Christian themes at play in it. The title, of course, refers to the Hail Mary pass in football, since the adventure undertaken is a fairly desperate attempt to save the planet. But it also becomes eminently clear that the reference is not just to football but to the Blessed Mother herself, for the Gosling character is undoubtedly a Christ-figure. I don't want to give away too much of the plot, but it involves a willingness to sacrifice one's life utterly in order to deliver the entire human race from disaster. It is, of course, no accident that Gosling's character is called Ryland Grace, for throughout the movie, his presence and actions constitute undeserved favor to others. A particularly intriguing character in the film is a sober German scientist who relentlessly presses Grace to make the supreme sacrifice, even when he is unwilling. She represented for me the great moral demand that presses upon us throughout our lives, continually summoning us to self-gift. A last observation: Jesus had a second in command whom he called Peter (the Rock); Ryland Grace has a very unusual sidekick whom he calls “Rocky.” I'll leave it at that.
I know lots of people say that Christianity is in irreversible decline and that we are inhabiting, at least in the West, a post-Christian society. I'm not so sure. Like it or not, we remain a Christ-haunted culture—and a film like “Project Hail Mary” makes this clear.
You aren't filtering anything if you aren't finding blocks. Even if you are finding blocks, someone else can just mine it regardless. That argument is so moot. The only person who have any ability to filter anything are bitcoin core devs manipulating the standardness layer.
Wow, America is now literally China with government owned entities. That's when we don't buy Intel anymore.
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Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available September 4 on all platforms and day one on Xbox Game Pass!
Watch the release trailer: youtu.be/6XGeJwsUP9c
The actual BSV hashrate is about 250ph/s, I literally have single farm pods with more hashrate than that in a single building, it's pathetic. Special mentions to eCash (Amaury's failed fork of BCH) with even less hashrate at 93ph/s. I have single rows inside said pods with more hashrate than that.
Not only hashrate not involved in block finding do not matter, but the more you will have actors spending hashes in difficulty adjustment period without having the probability space collapse into a valid block, the more the relationship between block time and hashrate will be broken.
It's not a bad thing necessarily. Block finding is highly probabilistic anyway, that's why hashrate estimates have been so shitty forever and far from the published sum of mining pool hashrates.
Also, the day these small actors will actually find a block, they will have an outsized influence on the network difficulty since they will have been excessively lucky, vs a pool that is not excessively lucky when they find a block.
Same for Bitcoin mining BTW, it's just much easier to setup on POS as you only need money, instead of built and deployed datacenters.
Correct me if I'm wrong but...
If enough eth validators were owned by public ethereum treasury companies (~20% of total eth supply), you could 51% attack the public equities (ie take majority control, many ways to achieve that via capital markets)- and you'd have governance control over ethereum. In other words securities law would become eth's consensus mechanism.
the all lowercase folks are dying on the weirdest hill of them all. imo it does indeed show lack of care, you aren't texting your mate, you are trying to get millions in early cap funding.
just got rejected from yc for using all lowercase in our application
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This is fake. Y Combinator no longer has an "admissions team"; it stopped using that term over a year ago.
Source: Garry Tan, President and CEO of Y Combinator
x.com/garrytan/statu…
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Ten years ago to the day, I was sentenced to die in prison. Instead I gave my first public speech in freedom.
I wore a red tie as an homage to @realDonaldTrump, the man who saved my life.
I salute @PeterSchiff for exposing himself to the opposition. Not many people have the guts to do that.
Meet me at Bitcoin 2025 until yhis Friday in Las Vegas at our Pow.re booth. Thursday at 1:30PM I will be on a panel titled "The Role of Hashrate & Pools in Decentralization" on the mining stage with @aeonBTC @GrassFedBitcoin, moderated by @BikesandBitcoin.
Just learned of that, that's an incredibly gameable system, way worse than proportional pools. Holy cow the hashrate explosion that pool will see whenever it finds its first block.
Just joined Parasite Pool with 5 Bitaxe Gammas—zero fees, Lightning-fast payouts, and a bold new model for home miners.
If a block is hit:
• 1 BTC goes to the block finder
• The rest (2.125 BTC + fees) is split among active miners
• Payouts via Lightning with no min withdrawal
No shares. No corporate bias. Just a swarm of plebs decentralizing Bitcoin, one hash at a time. ⛏️🟧
