Date: March 2, 2023

Block Height: 778,994

How many days until the halving:  423 according to https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/

Catch-Up:

• Stream Sats, Point Hash update:
• Pick any Lincoin URL:

a)  stratum+tcp://NA.lincoin.com:3333

b)  stratum+tcp://EU.lincoin.com:3333

c) stratum+tcp://LatAm.lincoin.com:3333

d) stratum+tcp://CIS.lincoin.com:3333

e) stratum+tcp://Asia.lincoin.com:3333

f) stratum+tcp://OC.lincoin.com:3333

g) stratum+tcp://Africa.lincoin.com:3333

Then use "pod256.YourAlias" as the worker name.

Shout out to @ChadFarrow and @_business_cat for pointing us some hash this week.

State of the Network:

• Bitrawr - difficulty estimator: https://www.bitrawr.com/difficulty-estimator
• Mempool.space - hashrate & difficulty: https://mempool.space/
• ASIC prices - Hashrate Index from Luxor: https://data.hashrateindex.com/asic-index-data
• Hashvalue - Braiins insights: https://insights.braiins.com/en/

News:

• Level 39 rebuttal to Amy Castor: https://twitter.com/level39/status/163104247229280256
• Is Braiins still Open Source?: https://twitter.com/ajtowns/status/1629280539583877122

Home Miner of the Week:

• @BTCSpeedBoat expands operation by another 720Th this should put him at about 2Ph! Congrats BTCSpeedBoat!

https://twitter.com/BTCSpeedBoat/status/1631030911432028161

Got a home miner set up? Tweet it w/ #POD256 and you could be featured on the pod

No Holds Barred:

Harry Sudock, CSO - Griid Infrastructure

• Harry’s thread on Griid’s curtailment letter to the TVA: https://twitter.com/harry_sudock/status/1625887907473924099
• Harry on Twitter: https://twitter.com/harry_sudock

Rod @bitkite on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitkite

Econoalchemist on Twitter: https://twitter.com/econoalchemist

Rod @bitkite on nostr: npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3

Econoalchemist on nostr: npub10m6lrv2kaf08a8um0plhj5dj6yqlw7qxzeag6393z352zrs0e5nsr2tff3

Bitcoin Park on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_

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