Of particular concern, check out these quotes from O'Dell talking about Marcus and Lightspark: Watch this (7:55 - 12:20). "Spark knows your entire transaction history." "Technically, if Spark wanted to be malicious they could do some shady shit probably." "Spark got funded by there notorious shitcoiners A16Z ... $160M." "For better or worse he [David Marcus] brought a, kind of like a, pragmatic shitcoiner approach to Bitcoin ... and we should probably do more of it" "There are a lot of arguments [against Spark]: is spark decentralized enough ... is it trust minimized enough?"

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The most interesting thing happening on Bitcoin right now. 👀

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PSUBB is now up for preorder 🔥 Are you tired of watching miners die to cheap power setups? We are, so @Nikos built a proper 12V breakout board for server PSUs. 6x XT60 outputs, 6x fan headers, switched accessory terminal, onboard or external power control. PSUBB was built because 99% of miner issues come from garbage power delivery. PSUBB fixes that. Turn a compatible server power supply into a clean, organized 12V power distribution hub for Bitcoin miners and bench setups. Power 10+ 12Vminers from one hiqh quality server PSU. PSUBB gives you 6 XT60 outputs, 6 fan headers with on-off switch, a low-power always-on 12V output, and a switched accessory terminal. All from a single server PSU. And these Power Supplys are INSANELY good, not comparable to the low level Meanwell stuff. A dream for every home miner. The compatible HP HSTNS power supplies are rated for server racks and truly reliable, while being dirt cheap on refurbished server aftermarkets. Meanwell are commonly used, but they're utter trash when compared to these beasts. Some HP HSTNS deliver up to 1600W, yes you read that right. Don't fall for marketing bullshit if you can DIY. Safety is of utmost importance when working with high power psu's like these. So I already made a chunky enclosure for them which will be available after some final tweaks. PSUBB Breakout Boards ship end of April. Limited amounts available. Preorder here:

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PSUBB -12V Breakout Board for Bitcoin Mining & Bench Power Distribution

Turn a compatible server power supply into a clean, organized 12V power distribution hub for Bitcoin miners and bench setups. PSUBB gives you 6 XT6...

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FreeCAD 1.1 is finally released and for the first time, this is quite nice to use imo. The update brings new tools, orbit styles, intuitive modeling and makes FreeCAD much more comparable to professional software like Fusion and Solidworks. Try it, it's free!

FreeCAD: Your own 3D parametric modeler

FreeCAD, the open source 3D parametric modeler

But printer, why are you so against spark? Is it really that bad or do you just always have to be the contrarian? Listen... Spark is Lightning, without the privacy. I hate to say this, but It was trivial for januszg to find this information, just imagine what chainalysis will do. Original post here:

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an example. @spark. i did a lightning payment from @cakewallet to @walletofsatoshi i looked up all received, lightning payments that happened wi...

I just published a utxo through Solarnode, feels good.

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3D Printing 101: "The support fallacy" After yesterdays post, many of you messaged me with questions. So I'll try to clear some of those up here. The reason why many who are deep into 3D printing do seemingly go great lengths to avoid supports is not what you think. The prevalent opinion is that the benefit is cost/time savings and less cleanup. Those are all nice bonuses, but the root of it. The real reason is that supports are always potential print failure as long as the slicer creates them. The one exception to this rule are custom modeled supports. Supports are, by design, less dense (~30%) than printed objects. Of course, that is to save material and to make them easier to remove. Supports are also small islands where the nozzle has to stop extruding, move and start again. The more supports, the more often it must do that. Printing small islands with little density is the hardest thing for an FDM 3D Printer to do, and the possibility of something going wrong does a 10x for each support structure in your print. TL DR: By avoiding supports, you are avoiding print failures.

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3D Printing 101: The optimal printing orientation for an object is not always visible at first glance and often requires some out of the box thinking. 99% would print this with supports. Wrong! By making one small angled cut, we can magically remove the need for supports.

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