Re: http://eusolo.ckpool.org, sadly the anonymous individual who offered to fund the server's running has retracted their offer. This & the stats incident has confirmed my belief I should not rely on others. I will likely now fund it myself but will need to migrate the service.

Prove to me you don't understand why bitcoin and not shitcoins without saying you don't understand bitcoin...

Three people came to me this week asking for orange pills.

The EU solo ckpool is up and running! Connect to the pool via instructions at

EU Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining

Graphical stats available at

CKstats

Real-time and historical statistics for the CKPool Bitcoin mining pool using data from their API.

Miners in Europe and Africa are encouraged to move to the new pool. Miners in The Americas and Asia-Pacific should still use

Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining

but the sister pool can be used as backup. This is an entirely separate pool from

Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining

and neither shares nor stats are shared across instances for overhead reasons. They only help propagate each others' blocks. Both will solve blocks with the same coinbase signature though.

Here's a little podcast I did with bitcoin mining world.

I've tentatively set up a new stats site courtesy of MrV_777 for trial. I'm personally hosting this one, but I've left his donation link intact since he did the work. Some other web devs are also working on alternatives, so do not assume this is the final form but please test it out. I may be hosting multiple in the future whilst testing them out. Http only for now:

CKstats

Real-time and historical statistics for the CKPool Bitcoin mining pool using data from their API.

Saturn captured in excellent conditions 2024-09-27

A phenomenon known as the Seeliger effect means Saturn's rings appear brighter when it's at its closest approach to Earth. This animated gif shows the alternating captures at opposition 2024 and two weeks later demonstrating this effect.

Saturn captured in infrared 2024-08-18

Congratulations to miner 36AisvWi1UiwLTeTZxLzindAkorqeUc3tT for solving the 291st solo block on http://solo.ckpool.org! This hefty miner with 38PH would solve a block on average once every ~4 months.

The Mempool Open Source Project®

Explore the full Bitcoin ecosystem with The Mempool Open Source Project®. See the real-time status of your transactions, get network info, and more.

Is there any way to post polls on nostr?

Theoretical physics has been using dark matter to fill in the gaps in existing theories, yet decades of searching for it has failed to find any proof of it. I find the possibility that the theories are wrong to begin with and need to be reworked compelling as an outsider. It reminds me so much of modern medicine insisting that cholesterol must be the cause of heart disease even if none of the research to date has convincingly demonstrated it because "we just haven't done a good enough study yet." 70 years since it was first proposed isn't long enough?

I'm confused, how come no ordinary like icon when I hit the heart on amethyst app. I get lots of other options but no basic ❤️ it allows me to add icons but then doesn't accept icon glyphs. What am I doing wrong.

Mineral 61% waning gibbous moon captured on my birthday, 2024-03-02. Not sure how well big images are handled on Nostr, so let's see.

Someone sent me some sats and nostr is the only place I have a receiving address so thanks whoever it was and whatever it was for!

Partial solar eclipse as seen from Melbourne, Australia.

Saturn captured this morning in infrared.

Group miners are looking to rent mega hashrates on solo pool again, up to 1EH. Interesting times when gambling stakes are so high.

Fixing the stupid dog with nuke anything.