Ocean Mining climbed back above 20 exahash (currently at 22.40) and put it to good use in the last 24 hours, mining 6 blocks when only 3 were expected. Mempool.space's measurements make it look like they have 44 exahash, but that's just because they got lucky today.

Here are three interesting pages on the bitcoin wiki: P2SH votes -

P2SH Votes - Bitcoin Wiki

Segwit support -

Segwit support - Bitcoin Wiki

Covenant support -

Covenants support - Bitcoin Wiki

All three gauge developer support for various fork proposals around at the time. Kind of like a vote.

Core fans lately

The United States Congressional Budget Office has published an annual projection of future US national debt every year since 1984. They also sometimes review how accurate past projections were. Unsurprisingly, they typically underestimate the debt by 7%. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55234

I looked into it further, and it looks like bitcoind actually does confiscate some pre-P2SH outputs. For the sake of "simplicity," it applies the p2sh rules to all transactions in all blocks (including pre-P2SH blocks) except ones occurring in one specific block that the devs made a single exception for. Thus, the other exceptional outputs are now unspendable. Source:

GitHub

bitcoin/src/validation.cpp at 13891a8a685d255cb13dd5018e3d5ccc18b07c34 · bitcoin/bitcoin

Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree. Contribute to bitcoin/bitcoin development by creating an account on GitHub.

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My two latest inventions are Node Faker, which simulates bitcoin-cli and bitcoind in the browser (via javascript), and Wild Explorer, which is a block explorer that talks to Node Faker to get its blockchain data For more info, see their respective githubs: Node Faker:

GitHub

GitHub - supertestnet/node_faker: Emulate bitcoind and bitcoin-cli in the browser

Emulate bitcoind and bitcoin-cli in the browser. Contribute to supertestnet/node_faker development by creating an account on GitHub.

Wild Explorer:

GitHub

GitHub - supertestnet/wild_explorer: A bitcoin block explorer built on top of my node_faker project

A bitcoin block explorer built on top of my node_faker project - supertestnet/wild_explorer