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The Bitcoin mining operations guy Bitcoin miner, comedian, DJ Data hoarder, media preservationist, and citizen archivist Bought pizza, wine, and S9s using Bitcoin on Nostr Nostr class of Dec ‘22 5DBB 68DB 0169 1EA3 1DD7 B43B 75A8 C1F9 3199 ACD6
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TatumTurnUp 2 days ago
Happy New Year does someone wanna come give Tatey Watey a kiss? Please..?
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TatumTurnUp 3 days ago
Hey why does Privacy Badger show 9 trackers for Primal dot net ...
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TatumTurnUp 3 days ago
Alright my first question back in the saddle. Surprise... Anyone know why I'm not able to send sats when Primal is saying that my Alby Hub is connected via NWC? I will say that the connection secret didn't automatically resolve on the Alby Hub side. Should I just try to reconnect? Also, I updated my lightning address and it still hasn't reflected. I changed it from my `strike.me` address to my `getalby.com` address but the Strike one still shows. God I feel like a noob again lol.
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TatumTurnUp 3 days ago
After a long time, I have finally settled down and rebuilt my tech stack and can comfortably get back on Nostr. LFG!
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TatumTurnUp 2 months ago
Good morning Nostr I am at a bar drinking a Coors Banquet at 7:30 in the morning for the Denver Broncos. image
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TatumTurnUp 3 months ago
FYI not that anyone used it but I just updated my PGP key in my bio. Cycled keys last month and forgot to update Nostr.
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TatumTurnUp 4 months ago
For my birthday, please donate by zapping @jeff ₿ for his nonprofit sats4soup or directly sending via lightning to sats4soup@strike.me
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TatumTurnUp 4 months ago
Vibe coded a ticker. Still cleaning it up and gonna add more matrices. image
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TatumTurnUp 4 months ago
Most people picture Bitcoin mining as plugging in machines and watching the hashrate go up. At scale, it looks very different. Behind the scenes it’s warehouses, deployments, repair blitzes, and crisis calls. It’s the side of mining that rarely gets talked about. In the warehouse, it’s loud, fast, and dusty. Forklifts, pallet jacks, compressors, and up to 100 miners screaming on the test bench. Dust flies everywhere from blowing out machines, stirred up by fans. You leave in a different-colored shirt than you came in. And the work never stops moving. Intake, testing, repairs, outbound. A machine that ships today might have been powered on, inspected, moved, and logged three times this week. The toughest challenge? Data integrity. A miner isn’t just “a miner.” It’s a specific unit with a history. If it moves without being logged, it becomes a ghost. At scale, ghosts cost time and money. Keeping everything tight is the name of the game. Adaptability is the core skill. Priorities shift daily. One minute you’re scanning inventory, the next you’re reconfiguring a test bench, and by the afternoon you’re on a brand-new project that didn’t even exist that morning. This is why Compass Mining offers warehousing consultation services built specifically for Bitcoin miners. Most people don’t realize it, but it’s a key piece of how we provide end-to-end solutions from deployment, hosting, repairs, logistics, and anything in between. (If you want to learn more about this, reach out to me directly.) Then there’s the field. You fly in, grab dinner, and the next morning you roll up to site. That first look always sparks the same thought: “Here we go again.” Because no matter what the outline says, you’re stepping into the unknown. And that’s half the thrill. The hours flex with the job. Sometimes it’s close to 8–5, other times it’s an all-nighter. One of my favorite memories: pulling up at 11pm to rewire 8 containers from scratch. We parked the truck in the middle, cranked the music, and worked until 3am. Exhausting and unforgettable. Mining has taken me to some unexpected places, too. For a long time, my “home away from home” was a small Amish town in Iowa. Population 600. While we worked on site, horse and buggies rolled past like clockwork. The future of money humming in steel boxes while the past rolled by on wheels of wood. The rhythm isn’t easy. One week I’m home, cooking my own meals and seeing friends. The next I’m in another state, pushing my body to the limit, running on grit and takeout. But that’s the point—it’s what makes this work real. Some days I feel like Superman lifting gear, other days like a hacker cleaning up data across three screens, other times like a parkour kid climbing containers just to plug in a cable. It’s tough work, and yeah, sometimes it just flat-out sucks. But I wouldn’t trade it. Warehousing is a skill, fieldwork is a gauntlet, and together they’re the backbone of Bitcoin mining. Without them, there is no hashrate.
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TatumTurnUp 4 months ago
Proto Rig is legit one of the most exciting things that’s happened in mining imo.