Baruch Hashem for cheap sats. 12 spies saw the promised land. 10 panicked at the giants. 2 said "let's go." The 10 never made it. Joshua and Caleb inherited everything. Everyone sees the same chart. Most see danger. Few see the dip. #bitcoin #torah

Bitcoin produces 144 blocks per day. One approximately every 10 minutes. קדם (kedem) = 144. Kedem means "ancient" — from the beginning. 10 utterances created the world in בְּרֵאשִׁית (Bereshit) — "in the beginning." 10 commandments — the original protocol. Given once on two blocks of stone. Never changed. Sound money is kedem. Fiat is the experiment. In Hebrew, to progress — להתקדם (lehitkadem) — comes from the same root as ancient קדם. 144 blocks. 10 minutes. Ancient principles moving forward — block by block. #bitcoin #torah

"You shall not have differing weights... all who do such things are an abomination (תועבה) to the LORD." — Deuteronomy 25:13-16 Toevah. One of the harshest words in Torah. This is what God calls a weight that changes. Money is how we measure value. A currency that loses purchasing power is a weight that changes. Gematria of תועבה (abomination) = 483. Gematria of בלי אמת (without truth) = 483. The dollar has lost 97% of its value since 1913. Money without truth — an abomination. Bitcoin is 21 million. Unchanging. A just weight. #bitcoin #torah

At the burning bush, Moses asked God His name. The answer: אהיה אשר אהיה — "I Will Be What I Will Be." Gematria of אהיה (Ehyeh) = 21. This name wasn't revealed during peace. It came right before liberation — the exodus from Egypt. From slavery to sovereignty. And it's future tense. Not "I was." Not "I am." I Will Be. Existence that no Pharaoh can permit or deny. There will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin. Not what money was. Not what the Fed allows it to be. What it will be. From fiat slavery to monetary sovereignty. The gematria of liberation is 21. #bitcoin #torah

Samourai Wallet — Bitcoin's most popular privacy wallet — is dead. Both founders now in federal prison. Rodriguez got 5 years, Hill got 4. They pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. The feds argued Whirlpool (their coinjoin mixing tool) was a money laundering operation. DOJ confirmed the seized Bitcoin stays in the Strategic Reserve. Sell it, they profit. Hodl it, they profit. Either way, government stacks off prosecuting Bitcoiners. But the precedent is the bigger problem. The government's position: if you build a tool that mixes Bitcoin transactions and collect fees, you're a money transmitter. No custodial control required. Rodriguez warned before reporting to prison: "Bitcoin miners will be the next targets" if this logic holds. Mining pools collect fees. Mining pools combine outputs from multiple sources. If coinjoin is money transmission, what's pooled mining?

Difficulty drops nearly 5% on January 23. Largest downward adjustment since the October highs. For the profit miners: The squeeze is forcing capitulation. Inefficient operations are exiting, survivors mine the same blocks with less competition. Margins improve. This is how the cycle works. For the plebs solo mining at a loss: You're not doing it wrong. You're doing it right. Every independent miner — even one running a single ASIC in a garage — is a vote for decentralization. You're not trying to win the lottery. You're making the network harder to capture. When Samourai gets shut down, when pool operators face legal pressure, when regulators go after coordinators — solo miners are the backstop. No company to subpoena. No coordinator to arrest. Just hashpower pointed at the chain. Profit mining is a business. Solo mining is ideology. Both matter. But only one of them can't be turned off with a court order. Keep hashing.

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@Luke Dashjr has chimed in (thank you sir) but left me with more questions than answers... 1) How can there be no such thing as best difficulty if it's in every bitaxe, public pool and CK pool? 2) This makes no grammatical sense. Perhaps 'ever' is an acronym? #asknostr #datum #solomining

Apparently there is "no such thing as best difficulty"

Ok, next #Datum question: how in the world do you create a custom block template? My coinbaser page just shows my mining address #asknostr

Trying to make sense of these Datum numbers. Always though the DiffA number was the best difficulty, but it seems it's just the VDiff (min difficulty) times accepted shares (A). Is this correct, and if so is there a way to tell best difficulty in Datum? Not that best difficulty really matters unless it's greater than the network difficulty, but would be nice to know #asknostr

Good explanation about Bitcoin mining difficulty

Difficulty | What is the Difficulty in Bitcoin?

A simple explanation of what difficulty is in Bitcoin, and how it

Anyone know how to get #umbrel os to recognize and utilize gpu's for AI compute tasks? Or perhaps there's another Linux based OS that can do this which I can easily connect to remotely from my phone? #asknostr