I'm interested in building a miner for the purpose of space heating. How quiet can you make these rigs? I have a small bedroom I work out of and I'm in meetings and client calls all day. I need a space heater but can't have a lot of noise. Any plebs have information, suggestions, resources, or ideas for this kind of project? #asknostr #bitcoin

I regret deleting my Twitter account, but only because now I want to go back and post about guillotines 😢

#zapathon

What do, nostr? It's been a minute. Taking a break from social media was nice, but I missed people. Have we started seeing the inevitable "halving is priced in" nonsense yet?

Friendly reminder to reach out and remind the people you care about that you love them. It's easy to let the ebb and flow of life carry us along and sometimes we end up a fair ways away from people we love, and trust, and owe for their wisdom, kindness, or examples to follow. 💜🤙

I'm seriously thinking about learning how to hunt. I'm trying really hard to embrace self sufficiency, and this feels like the next natural step. It's just an intimidating one. Especially as a former vegetarian. I have some buddies that are into it, the plan is to shadow them to get a feeling for it and learn what I can, and figure out next steps. Growth is hard, but also exciting. Always forward, never back.

I had a moment of weakness the other day, and it surprised me. The details aren't super important, but I basically wasn't having the best of weeks and backslid into my old default behavior at a company gathering because I was so out of my element. Nothing bad happened, except the lost opportunity to network and run shoulders with company leadership. But it was a great reminder that my weaker tendencies are always going to be there. That my assumption of being 'past that' was not true at all. No one gets to just grow past the urge to avoid discomfort, or to settle for what is comfortable. It was a nice dose of reality, and I will work harder next time. 🤙

Are there any privacy or security concerns for connecting Sparrow to Bitcoin Core as opposed to Electrum Server? Using Electrum Server now but my Raspi is dying. I recall reading somewhere that there is a reason not to use Core but now I cannot find it.

I have a question I'm not sure where to look for an answer. Bitcoin's target block time is 10 minutes, but what does it use as a reference point? What clock does it look at as the source of 'truth'?

GM I just smashed my technical interview and I feel unstoppable.

First of 4 interviews tomorrow. 3 years of PoW put to the test. Looking forward to it. LFG 🔥

GM

I really hate dealing with nodes. The one I've been using for the last year is turning off randomly. No clue what's wrong. Suspect it's the raspi so I thought I would install core onto a laptop. Thought it would be a good chance to unshackle myself from Windows and try Ubuntu. Days later, halting steps. Ubuntu installed. Core is verified and installed. Blockchain is syncing. For a few hours anyway. App crashes for no reason, and now it's refusing to start, even with 'snap connect bitcoin-core:removable media' from the command line. For fuck's sake. I like Ubuntu well enough from what I've seen, but it was a huge mistake since I've never touched Linux before. Seriously considering abandoning the whole thing and going back to Windows. At least I understand how that shit works well enough to properly troubleshoot. Ugh. I need to go to bed and look at this with fresh eyes tomorrow.