Running Liquid.

Dang, @Marcelinho looks like I bought the wrong ePaper display. I figured out the pin mapping, but even though it seems to have the same specs as the version with the Pico mount, just getting garble written to the display. Here's the display I got:

296x128, 2.9inch E-Ink display module, SPI interface | E029A01-FPCA-V2.0 E029A01-FPC-A1

296x128, 2.9inch E-Ink display module, SPI interface | E029A01-FPCA-V2.0 E029A01-FPC-A1

Any ideas on what might need tweaking?

This feels so weird to have non-kyc, permissionless(ish?) access to Tether. SideSwap instantly converted my Liquid btc to Liquid Tether with a ~1% spread (effectively a fee). Nothing being reported to the IRS. Dunno if SideSwap has a limit on how much you can convert. Regulators will eventually get around to locking US users out of this.

This shirt just happened to be at the top of one of my many t-shirt piles. Got it at some point at a conference. Seemed apropos since I've been digging back into Liquid for the first time since my first go-round 2+yrs ago. That being said, what I really need is a @Blockstream t-shirt...

Whelp, I guess there's a first time for everything. With all the microSD cards I've manipulated over the years (and esp the last 2.5yrs working on @SeedSigner), I've never snapped one in half. Super-clumsy moment or bad card? Dunno

Braiins Pool is now FPPS (guaranteed regular payouts). I had only mined in their previous PPLNS* system. Braiins could go days without finding a block, so FPPS feels like an improved experience. Statistically it shouldn't(?) make a difference which payout system you're in (assuming no pool shenanigans), but the guaranteed ongoing payout is psychologically more comforting. I didn't realize that hashing credit would accrue every 5 min(?) or so. That's nice. If you popped in and hashed for 20 minutes and then shut down, you'd still get paid out for that span of work (unlike PPLNS where you could easily yield nothing, depending on luck). --- *(PPLNS: paid only when they find a block, highly variable, and your hash participation credit dwindles quickly if you stop hashing--i.e. you get nothing if you mined for a while but dropped out before the pool found the next block)

Woot! Collagen chew stick so good! @KumaDawg

This is so f'n cool! I'm running a single S19j Pro hashboard on an S9 power supply on a standard US 120V outlet! All possible thanks to Zack Bomsta's Loki board! A used S19j Pro feels like a sweet spot right now for a modern-enough miner at a relatively cheap price (~$8.25/Th; mines at break even around 11-12¢/kWh). But it pulls 3000W from a 240V line that most US households don't have. But with the Loki boards, you can DIY one S19j Pro into three separate miners / space heaters. Each running on their own old S9 power supply which won't overload the typical 15A household circuit. So now I can just plug in a ~35+Th/s miner in the coldest room of my mom's house! see: pivotalpleb.com

You are finishing your Thanksgiving dinner grocery shopping. I am picking up a @Kaboomracks asic. We are not the same.

Twitter totally nailing the targeted ads. That's money well spent, Venclexta.

Is there any way to enable translation help in WhatsApp (Android)? I'm in touch with a few of my Uber drivers from San Salvador and am helping them learn more about bitcoin. My Spanish is still a work in progress. There's no explicit translation option that I can find and I can't even copy their message text to paste into Google Translate. This is definitely slowing things down!

Yeah, my Spanish is FAR from fluent!! But it's just good enough to discuss #bitcoin self-custody at about the level of a well-informed 12yr old (albeit with an ~8yr old's vocabulary!). Why do it in Spanish? It was important to me to show that I (and Bitcoiners in general), are earnestly trying to meet Salvadorans where they're at. You don't have to cross this huge tech and language chasm yourself; I will do my best, flawed as it is, to come to you. And I think it makes everything so much less intimidating and more human. I hopefully helped them understand bitcoin a bit better, but I also needed their help plenty of times, too. Creates a vibe that we're all on equal footing, even though we contribute different expertise and struggle with different challenges. Result? I did get some really great feedback -- from native Spanish speakers! -- that this did help make certain things finally click for them. Random thoughts: * When I didn't know a word and people in the audience did, that in itself was like a mini comprehension check. And makes the talk a more active experience; not only are they processing and anticipating what I'm trying to say but they're also engaged as co-authors/co-presenters in a sense. * There's ALWAYS value in re-teaching the basics. * Conferences that are trying to appeal to broader audiences should have dedicated sessions and resources for beginners. * Americans can be shitty to people who speak broken English but the Spanish speakers I encountered were overwhelmingly supportive, enthusiastic, and gracious about my so-so español.

Oof. $2300 for the final stage of replacing my yanked molar (which already cost a couple thousand to extract and bone graft in an anchor). They need to screw in the "coping" thing here, take a mold, make a custom replacement tooth, and cement it in when the tooth is ready. I should have had this done in #ElSalvador while I was in town. Dang.

TFW you're jealous of a coconut... #elsalvador #elzonte #bitcoinbeach