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4 days

Congratulations to miner with the first bitaxe block, only a tiny 3TH for finding the 290th solo block on solo ckpool! This much hashrate only would find a block once every 3500 YEARS on average, or 1 in 1.2 MILLION chance per day!

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@ckpooldev

3 years

Congratulations to a bitcoin miner with only 126TH who solved a solo block on see:

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@ckpooldev

1 year

It turns out these JPEG inscriptions are awesome. Someone's wasting tons of money spamming the network in the hope it causes problems for bitcoin. Instead all they're doing is proving the DoS protection of limited block size works.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Congratulations to miner 151XTfHBfaDqoNWGGeYobNX2YzFFWuB5YD with only ~17TH for solving the 275th block at ! That is likely a single S9 miner. A miner of this size would only solve a block once every ~450 years on average

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@ckpooldev

3 years

And here are some images of his mini-farm that solved the block, and his cgminer running showing his best share of 35.5T

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@ckpooldev

3 years

Congratulations to another miner with approximately 86TH solving a solo block on ! There are a lot more miners now on the solo pool and if enough people are mining solo, someone will eventually be the lucky one as here.

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@ckpooldev

3 years

Congratulations to yet another small miner solving a block solo with only 116TH on ! They haven't even been mining a week with this hashrate!

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@ckpooldev

3 months

The best outcome would be a random anon solo mining the halving block.

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@ckpooldev

3 months

Congratulations to miner 365ughTgK9Q7rXXTM7vubqy1awZ2AZJijP for solving the 282nd solo block solved at with a large ~120PH at the time (12PH average over a week)

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@ckpooldev

8 months

Congratulations to miner 15VYcdhWXB2tpKmFHKT9DcGLWDQJQ2XMJW with 2PH for solving the 279th solo block at ! A miner of this size would solve a block on average only once every 5 years.

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@ckpooldev

2 years

Congratulations to miner 1CEmkQkgiCMx6DHSDkHi53mL8oEthCZSw with only 10TH who solved a solo block at !

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@ckpooldev

2 years

@engineers_feed You can be accelerating c, decelerating a, or travelling at a constant speed b, and still driving, so all of the above.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

To understand why I'm posting about the solo ckpool code - the idea is that I'm making it possible for anyone to mine solo at home. Whilst I don't think people should mine solo as a default it could be a massive safeguard against a series of coordinated attacks on the major pools

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@ckpooldev

2 years

I was there. Price really didn't matter back then, we were working on something we believed in at a point where it wasn't at all about price. We wouldn't have gotten here now without that mentality, and this current dip is totally insignificant in bitcoin's history.

Documenting ₿itcoin 📄

@DocumentingBTC

2 years

#Bitcoin once crashed to $0.01 11 years ago on this day, the value went from a peak of $32 to just a penny on the MtGox exchange in a temporary drop. If that could not stop #bitcoin , then nothing can.

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@ckpooldev

3 years

Congratulations to the lucky miner who solved a bitcoin block solo at mining with approximately 100TH.

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@ckpooldev

3 months

Congratulations to the massive miner 3EpYvBkWGaaUH1qDTs7Tboc6rCPJdYdXTE with 0.5EH for solving the 284th solo block at

Bitcoin Block: 000000000000000000030566aa3a07755fe2effcf8d8e170a7f7a92added6b53

Explore the full Bitcoin ecosystem with The Mempool Open Source Project®. See the real-time status of your transactions, get network info, and more.

mempool.space

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@ckpooldev

3 years

And it looks like our miner is happy to not remain anonymous as he posted this on the forum thread.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Congratulations to miner 3EHpvbs5ar7DWiux1AQ5JMB2zTBE6wzX7d with only 41TH for solving the 276th solo block at !

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@ckpooldev

9 months

Congratulations to miner 3KCykmdpBpNKTtZJAvp3u2N2EQjGzbUF7c with ~11PH for solving the 278th solo block on

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@ckpooldev

4 months

I dedicate this picture to my brother George Kolivas who passed away today.

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@ckpooldev

4 months

Mineral full moon captured on 2024-03-24

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Congratulations to miner bc1q0ftg0p7ljsj3m32e22ned92536gr5tafctr7mp who solved the 274th solo block at with approximately 750TH

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@ckpooldev

2 years

Once again, congratulations to yet another very lucky small miner with only 13TH solving the 265th solo bitcoin block at !

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@ckpooldev

4 months

Congratulations to miner 33uUaKyRDWFoKAFPJNp3gjXSd9FRa4Z2GW for solving the 281st solo block solved at with a hefty 7PH of presumably rented hashrate before the halving!

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@ckpooldev

2 years

I'm not surprised, Intel ASICs are last generation efficiency. As experienced a chip make Intel is, this is their first iteration, whilst other manufacturers have tackled all the unique problems of btc mining for years and are generations of efficiency in.

Intel Details Its Bitcoin-Mining 'Bonanza Mine' Chips and 3,600-Watt Miner

Intel's 3,600-watt Bitcoin-mining powerhouse

www.tomshardware.com

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@ckpooldev

4 years

I dedicate this image of Jupiter I took to my father, Dimitrios Kolivas, who passed away last night.

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@ckpooldev

3 months

Congratulations to the absolutely massive miner 34e2SpLKyxMoZqeeLoVkDuf3VYa4gEvost with ~0.5EH who decided to mine solo for solving the 283rd solo block at . Block:

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@ckpooldev

6 months

Dear America. Please don't start WWIII to fix your economic problems.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

This flowchart has everything you need to know.

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@ckpooldev

2 years

Congratulations to a miner with 1.14PH who solved the 264th solo Bitcoin block at ! There was once again ~20% chance that one of the miners at the pool would have solved a block by now.

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@ckpooldev

2 years

Congratulations to a miner with 60TH who solved the 266th solo block at ! There was an ~81% chance that someone on the pool would have solved a block by now.

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@ckpooldev

4 years

@physicsJ I imaged the approaching conjunction in broad daylight; planets don't care, so even light pollution won't hurt a bit.

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@ckpooldev

11 months

Congratulations to miner bc1q2za4ejga366sn288273pty8trasn5zs4y9hqg6 with ~1PH of hashrate at solving the 277th solo block at ! A miner of this size would only solve a block solo on average once every 7 years at current diff

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@ckpooldev

13 days

It's time

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@ckpooldev

8 months

Someone solved a block solo last night using my older solo ckpool code. No details regarding the size of this miner nor duration of their solo mining can be ascertained from the block details but congratulations to them.

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@ckpooldev

5 months

@jack Looks great, but I cannot buy it with bitcoin as far as I can see.

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@ckpooldev

7 months

The amount of shitcoin ads I'm getting on X now is insane.

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@ckpooldev

8 months

I am trialling a new feature on in the interests of ultimate transparency that allows you to monitor which transactions are being included in the current block template.

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@ckpooldev

3 years

I had a look back at when I started creating cgminer in 2011 and when it started being replaced as the defacto standard Bitcoin mining software only recently and realised that at least 10 million Bitcoin has been created with my software and it's still minting Bitcoin today.

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@ckpooldev

2 months

Congratulations to the massive miner 3PFJX8ZrbGHjsf4r6wZk3aUHH9uxK4rwHJ with 750PH for yet another even luckier block in less than 24hrs as the 286th solo block solved at !

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@ckpooldev

3 months

Welcome to the new solo miners since yesterday's solved block announcement. My regular community service announcement to all the newcomers solo mining: Solo mining is gambling and the vast majority of you will lose money and never get any rewards.

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@ckpooldev

3 months

Congratulations to miner 365ughTgK9Q7rXXTM7vubqy1awZ2AZJijP for solving the 282nd solo block solved at with a large ~120PH at the time (12PH average over a week)

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Exchanges that have wasted resources on shitcoinery such as Binance when they should have implemented lightning years ago are scrambling to correct their mistakes.

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@ckpooldev

3 months

When people ask me why I don't start a regular btc mining pool, I assume most of you don't know I used to run one with ZERO fee as a service to the community, and yet even that wasn't enough to attract adequate hashrate for the pool to solve blocks regularly.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Here is a random photo of my 3rd and last GPU mining rig with 4x7970 GPUs over a decade ago before moving to all ASICs. Blocks were still 50BTC each, and BTC had dipped to $0.30 just before I started building this rig. @BTCMiningMuseum

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Miners' fee rewards are at a record high. Blocks are still limited to 4MB in size unlike ridiculous big block shitcoin forks would be. Blocks are validated and propagated at the same rate they always were. Regular node operators can still validate all the blockchain.

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@ckpooldev

3 months

@historyinmemes That's cgminer which is my software, and responsible for mining over half of all bitcoin that will ever exist.

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@ckpooldev

2 months

Congratulations to our absolutely massive whale of a miner 38WdbKJRUf7efyAgmaoayrpY44U3d3FpvC who scaled up to 1.2EH for solving the 285th solo block at in only about 1/3 of the time they'd normally solve a block.

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@ckpooldev

6 months

Congratulations to miner 32hZXGyQ1SJV1wYiSA5dE52duoLvkYRiv1 for solving the 280th solo block solved at ! This is a larger miner with over 40PH mining.

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@ckpooldev

2 years

Congratulations to a miner 15Hgp1dLmdNfZCYVysikTsJXoEL3kMpPz3 with 270TH who solved a solo block at !

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@ckpooldev

6 years

@elonmusk Your tweets just haven't been the same since you smoked that blunt.

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@ckpooldev

2 months

Congratulations to our whale miner with 1EH for yet another lucky block, the 287th at !

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Make no mistake about it, this looks for all intents and purposes to be a coordinated attack, but it's coming at great cost to the inscriptors, and all they're doing is a stress test on bitcoin nowhere near as bad as we've seen before at their expense.

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@ckpooldev

3 years

I have since confirmed that this is indeed a new miner, that joined less than 2 days ago presumably in response to the other lucky block solver, so they've been astronomically lucky in solving a block solo in that time.

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@ckpooldev

3 years

@Jean_Bon_Beurre @SGBarbour Depends on how long he was mining for. You have about a 1 in 10,000 chance of finding a block per day with that hashrate, so one block on average every 10,000 days (but the chance keeps diminishing over time as global hashrate rises.)

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@ckpooldev

3 months

Did you know that miners have the power to kill off the FPPS mining pools? If every miner used block withholding the pools would go broke in no time, whilst the miners would still get paid. The mining difficulty would even drop. I'm not condoning or recommending this of course...

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Fees are at a record high as a result, making the base layer 1 prove it still works perfectly well as a settlement layer. Layer 2 solutions such as lightning being the way to handle scaling and microtransactions are proving correct.

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@ckpooldev

6 years

I've been working on the Dragonmint T1 to get autotune working for better efficiency and/or better hashrates. Results are promising, so hopefully @HalongMining will have new firmware for you all to try.

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@ckpooldev

2 months

Congratulations to our whale miner with 1.5EH for solving the 289th solo block solved at !

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@ckpooldev

3 years

@drwolfff For the miner involved it's a once in a lifetime chance. Last time a miner this small solved a block on my pool was only a year ago though. It's usually larger miners that solve blocks statistically but there is no reason even the smallest miner can't solve one.

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@ckpooldev

6 months

The last time inflation was a good thing was almost 14 billion years ago when the universe began.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Meanwhile the Bitcoin blockchain continues its honey badger imitation, smoothly generating block after block without interruption or requiring regular hardforks, intervention, or restarting.

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@ckpooldev

5 months

Pay attention; for all his hatred for bitcoin, he understands the halving and bitcoin's issuance more than most journalists and virtually all economists. Irrespective of whether you agree with his conclusion or not, ask yourself why he knows these.

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@ckpooldev

2 years

A miner of this size should only find a block solo about once every 500 years at the current bitcoin difficulty, making this a once-in-a-lifetime lucky event for them.

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@ckpooldev

3 months

Over 400PH of plebs currently mining on solo pool. You guys want this pretty bad.

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@ckpooldev

3 months

Went to pay for something online that said they accepted btc only to find this shit at checkout and no way to actually use btc. Coinbase still avoiding being a Bitcoin company whenever possible.

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@ckpooldev

9 months

Shopping list from the '40s reminds me of seed phrase storage.

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@ckpooldev

8 months

A reminder that ckpool solo and the ckpool code never mines empty blocks.

Daniel Sempere Pico

@BTCGandalf

8 months

ViaBTC pool just mined an empty block at a time when transaction fees are nearing 2 BTC per block. Learn about why pools mine empty blocks here:

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@ckpooldev

3 years

@BTC_Archive As a wise man once said - you can't ban Bitcoin, you can only ban yourself from Bitcoin.

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@ckpooldev

5 months

Do not get hung up that @saylor is saying bitcoin is only useful as a Store of Value and not a Medium of Exchange. He has made it clear that is the only use case he cares about and is trying to orange pill other big corporations into adopting it as their treasury reserve asset.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Who or what is behind the attack is irrelevant, but I'd point the finger at major shitcoiners hoping for a flippening in response. To spam the blockchain at this level would cost millions per day and is unsustainable indefinitely.

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@ckpooldev

3 months

For smaller miners on , the presence of one massive miner has no effect on your mining, or chance to solve a block. There was a pool many years ago that used to prioritise communications to its biggest miners, but solo ckpool does not do that.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Here is what the ckpool console showed when he solved the block. Assuming they have been mining continuously on the same address, they solved the block after only 9G shares. At the current diff of 51T, that is a one in ~5,500 chance.

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@ckpooldev

11 months

Well that was fun, the ecash devs wanted me to merge their code into ckpool solo to support their shitcoin.

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@ckpooldev

3 months

Don't expect BTC price to spike immediately following the halving. No one but the miners will even notice anything to begin with. It will simply be providing more long term buy pressure which will take months to re-equilibrate to.

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@ckpooldev

8 months

CK solo pool code inside.

FutureBit

@FutureBit

8 months

Introducing Apollo II The Home Miner Revolution is here Apollo OS 2.0 Built In Stratum Solo Pool 5nm ASICs 6-10TH/s Hashrate As low as 28W/TH 200-400 Watts of Power Starting at $799

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@ckpooldev

4 months

There is currently a group rental of 1EH on , I wish them luck with such expensive high stakes gambling.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Congratulations to a very heavy hitter solo miner bc1q97xwgr64c9hykuu99ur3qva9k37f776fx76yl8 with 1EH of hashrate who solved the 272nd solo block at

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@ckpooldev

2 months

Meanwhile binance pool mines another empty block. A reminder that ckpool never mines empty blocks.

Bitcoin Block: 0000000000000000000011f8e6e2c016f101d2a898014aa408ab7ded3224421f

Explore the full Bitcoin ecosystem with The Mempool Open Source Project®. See the real-time status of your transactions, get network info, and more.

mempool.space

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@ckpooldev

3 years

@Excellion @elonmusk Perhaps you should be asking him does he know what mining is first?

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@ckpooldev

7 months

@peterktodd @ocean_mining I checked the logs at my pool. The new header for block 823924 was seen at 22:32:26.151920, and my pool was sending out a full transaction set at 22:32:26.334802, 180ms later. Mining an empty block 7 seconds later is inexcusable.

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@ckpooldev

3 months

Across the last halving was solving so few blocks that I increased the pool fees to make it worth keeping the pool running. I'm pleased to say this time with BTC up so much and having solved far more blocks, the fee will remain 2% after the halving.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Bitcoin mining difficulty just rose to 51.2 trillion.

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@ckpooldev

2 years

Every Bitcoin correction feels like nuclear winter, but every cycle proves HODLers to be the cockroaches of nuclear fallout, emerging 100x better off than other species by the next cycle.

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@ckpooldev

4 years

Picked up a new pastime to help keep me occupied and sane during our lockdown. Bought a telescope and astrophotography camera and took this last night.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Congratulations to miner39nDQ9BexEBXpRdkHY1z95CaMDEwh6muPW who solved the 270th solo block at with 6.7PH but doesn't appear to have been mining for very long

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@ckpooldev

3 months

The good news is this experience allowed me to convince the merchant to implement their own @BtcpayServer

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@ckpooldev

3 months

Went to pay for something online that said they accepted btc only to find this shit at checkout and no way to actually use btc. Coinbase still avoiding being a Bitcoin company whenever possible.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

It appears I just got to 5,000 followers. Welcome all, I'm only here for the revolution in money. I'm not running a business or selling anything so if you get any messages from someone claiming to sell you something, it's a scam. Beware of impostors.

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@ckpooldev

27 days

We're finally on track for the first significant drop in bitcoin mining difficulty post halving, as all the hangers-on mining way below their profit points are finally decommissioning their inefficient miners or getting out entirely. The current estimate is at least a 6% drop.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

Version 0.9.7 of the solo ckpool code has been tagged, and there is now a README-SOLOMINING to help people set up local solo mining. Get it here:

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@ckpooldev

3 months

I've been through all the halvings, and this 4th one had 100x the hype - and drama - of all the previous ones combined. The first was accompanied with mostly trepidation and intrigue and a fun transient spike in hashrate and fees. The 2nd and 3rd were just regular days.

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@ckpooldev

6 months

Before you buy into any arguments that Bitcoin needs X feature or its future is at stake, bear in mind that Bitcoin got to where it is now precisely by avoiding adopting X other features countless times in the past, along with infamous rage quits by the people pushing them.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

This is also the first mainnet block solved since the code rework and is the same code as I've made publicly available for everyone to use.

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@ckpooldev

8 months

Bitcoin mining network difficulty just rose to a new high of ~68 trillion.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

I'm pleased to report that my work on this is now complete. Over to you @FutureBit to incorporate into your next mining hardware/firmware.

FutureBit

@FutureBit

1 year

We are excited to launch FutureBit Grants, with our first recipient being Con Kolivas ( @ckpooldev ). Con has been instrumental in developing cgminer, ckpool, and propagating the stratum protocol, all of which have been the backbone of the Bitcoin mining infrastructure for the past

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4 months

Anthony Pompliano 🌪

@APompliano

4 months

Today we are announcing a new company. For years, blockchains have focused on (1) marketing to new users and (2) communities with reporters via PR. These efforts are necessary, but they neglect the most important group of people for a blockchain — the ecosystem stakeholders.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

When blocks are large and complicated, and the memory pool full, it takes longer to validate the block and propagate it from node to node. That leaves a larger window in which another miner may solve a block, thereby creating a race to propagate their block first.

BitMEX Research

@BitMEXResearch

1 year

There has been an unusually large number of stale/orphan blocks on Bitcoin in the last few weeks We have detected 17 stale blocks in the last 10,000 block period

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@ckpooldev

6 months

Was recently contracted to set up some private solo mines from larger hashers. Always happy to see more hashrate off pools and help facilitate it.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

One of the strangest groups I find opposition to bitcoin from comes from a core of software geeks/technologists who were convinced it was a pointless ponzi early on and have since adopted every main stream media anti-bitcoin argument along the way without ever reappraising it.

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@ckpooldev

5 months

Feels wrong doing any work that isn't bitcoin related at the moment since the world needs it so much right now. Fix the money, fix the world.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

@ahcastor @techreview There already is a bitcoin POS fork. No one uses it because proof of work is a fundamental tenet to making bitcoin what it is. Proof of stake is no more than a crypto version of the failed cantillionaire economy we already have in fiat.

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@ckpooldev

1 year

It also isn't worth inscribing jpegs at that cost either, so even if it were legitimate, they'd be looking at more affordable solutions.

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@ckpooldev

3 months

We're headed for the first >5% substantial drop in bitcoin mining difficulty in a long time, as expected with price being ~stable but block reward halving.

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