🚨 NOW: Trump FHFA Director Bill Pulte announces he is QUASHING the FICO monopoly over American homebuyers — effective immediately, Fannie and Freddie will approve all lenders using VantageScore "Since 2020, FICO has increased the price per a person’s credit score by 1,800%. FICO has enjoyed a monopoly. No more." "Fannie and Freddie’s initial rollout of VantageScore has been incredibly successful, with 50 LENDERS DELIVERING LOANS." "So, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, I’m instructing Fannie and Freddie to approve ALL lenders to use VantageScore." 🔥

OCEAN's Board of Directors has elected Bob Burnett (@boomer_btc) as Chairman.   Bob has been part of OCEAN from the beginning. He served on our founding Board, was the first miner to put hashrate behind the pool, and found OCEAN's first-ever block.   He brings something particularly valuable for OCEAN's next chapter: experience building and leading technology businesses at scale.   Before founding Barefoot Mining in 2017, Bob spent over 30 years in technology-centric endeavors, including 13 years at Gateway, a Fortune 200 company, where he served as CTO and EVP of Products, led thousands of employees, managed a multi-billion-dollar business, and helped guide one of the defining companies of the PC revolution.   Today, Bob is the founder and CEO of Barefoot Mining and has spent years working toward the same thing that brought OCEAN together in the first place: a more decentralized and resilient Bitcoin mining network.   He knows OCEAN. He knows mining. He knows what it takes to build a technology company for the long term.   We're proud to have Bob Burnett serve as Chairman as OCEAN enters its next chapter. 🌊

The buybacks come during a tough period for the crypto market, as some investors ditch digital assets in favour of soaring AI-related stocks. ft.trib.al/ddn7zb4

Helpful thread -- people get confused about this aspect of statistics rather often

OCEAN's next chapter Bitcoin mining and block template construction have become concentrated in a small number of pools. When a handful of operators can decide which transactions make it into blocks, Bitcoin's censorship resistance increasingly depends on their goodwill rather than the design of the network. That is a security problem. We exist to fix it. What we're building. We built DATUM to put block template construction back in miners' hands. It is open source on the client side and will be open source on the pool side early next year. We will continue our effort integrating Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, for trustless payouts and for encouraging compatibility with the best available standards, features, tools. We will work with miners, partners, other pools, and protocol developers (like SV2) to make decentralization a priority for the next era of Bitcoin mining. Building your own template, permissionlessly, provides sovereignty to miners. Freedom to choose which transactions to include empowers all miners to act as a gateway for the free market to Bitcoin's blockspace. And doing it all locally on your own node cuts down bandwidth requirements enormously, while the TIDES payment system provides more direct exposure to the upside. More independent miners, making more independent decisions, using less bandwidth, and earning more Bitcoin (3.6% more on OCEAN in 2025, to be precise). Where we stand. Our pool remains on SHA-256. We are not adopting any proof-of-work change. To our miners. Nothing changes for you. Service and support continue uninterrupted. Nacho Pauls remains your first point of contact. The next chapter starts now. Let’s build! 🌊

Many of my friends are finally understanding this 👇😍

plebs feel powerless because they don’t understand the basics. then pleb slop influencers convince them that they actually are the ones in control. plebs go crazy and start doing insane shit. works in politics. you have one vote, no matter how naive you are. not in bitcoin.