Saturn captured on 2025-06-10 UTC. The rings are now just barely visible.

If it wasn't clear, I will continue to run core relay/mempool rules on the solo pools as I always have for all the technical reasons already outlined in a myriad of other places. By all means feel free to run whatever client you feel is appropriate or mine wherever you like, but I implore you to read arguments instead of listening to them for the person delivering verbal messages can have more influence on your decision making than it can in text.

Saturn captured 2025-05-18.

This is a great new multisig hardware wallet device one of the local bitdevs in our meetup has been working on and is coming out soon. Uses taproot and allows dynamic adding and removing signatures.

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Congratulations to miner bc1~nnc5 with ~230TH for solving the 299th solo block mined at http://solo.ckpool.org! A miner of this size has about a 1 in 30,000 chance of finding a block each day.

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Congratulations to miner bc1qq926qlrhc2pvxzc5f0zswnvqqddqqj3tz2amla with a sizeable 2.5PH/s for solving the first EU solo block and the 298th block at solo.ckpool.org!

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

A miner of this size has about a one in 2,000 chance if finding a block per day.

Congratulations to a super lucky miner bc1qaxccz85rx6ywy2xw6ugtm6u37mvew6qqn7lgtd with only 3.3TH who solved the 297th solo block at

Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining

with a 480GH bitaxe!

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

A miner of this size has only less than a 1 in a million chance of finding a block per day, or put alternatively, would take 3500 years to find a block on average.

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

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.

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.

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?

Nice, we got our $100K AUD BTC breakthrough at last. Next stop 1M.

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!

Congratulations to miner39nDQ9BexEBXpRdkHY1z95CaMDEwh6muPW who solved the 270th solo block at

Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining

with 6.7PH but doesn't appear to have been mining for very long https://explorer.btc.com/btc/block/780112

Congratulations to miner 14MooZUhqu3gXPDGC4aUh3AQFKDs3SZ1MW with approximately 733TH who solved the 269th solo block at solo.ckpool.org https://explorer.btc.com/btc/block/777942