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Mining: Hut 8 announces 1.5 GW expansion in the US On August 26, bitcoin mining company Hut 8 unveiled its expansion plans with four new sites in the United States, adding a capacity of 1.5 gigawatts. The announced expansion touches U.S. states with diverse regulatory approaches: Texas: bitcoin mining facilities over 75 megawatts must register with the Texas Public Utility Commission; Louisiana: in June 2024, it approved favorable legislation for bitcoin miners in industrial areas, aiming to stimulate the local economy by attracting new businesses in the sector; Illinois: despite the absence of specific regulations for mining, the state has seen several dedicated facilities emerge in locations such as Bloomington-Normal and Effingham. Two sites in Texas connected to the ERCOT grid will contribute 1,180 MW. Louisiana’s site, connected to MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), will add 300 MW, while Illinois will see a 50 MW project linked to PJM (Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection).
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Bitcoin Safe - A bitcoin savings wallet for the entire family Why choose Bitcoin Safe? 🔗✔ Secure Bitcoin storage made Easy The Bitcoin Safe setup wizard makes Single and Multi-signature easy for non-technical people –> Simply follow each step to set up a safe wallet. The PDF Export helps you to backup the important wallet descriptor with each seed. Register the Multi-signature with each hardware signer Includes test receiving and spending from the wallet, to ensure all major hardware signers work 🔗✔ Label Synchronization and Backup Bitcoin Safe will magically (through the power of encrypted nostr messages) Synchronize your coin categories and labels across computers Backup your coin categories and labels. All you have to do is backup a short backup-key. 🔗✔ Multi-party Multi-sig collaboration Participate in a 3-of-5 Multi-sig wallet? After the wallet is created Bitcoin Safe creates an encrypted nostr group chat to collaborate and send PSBTs around to sign. Label synchronization works of course too. For security each participant has to authenticate (a simple click) each other user 🔗✔ Organize addresses in coin categories You can cluster addresses in coin categories. It’s easier than labeling each address. For each PSBT you create you select the matching coin category and Bitcoin Safe will select the inputs only from it. Bitcoin Safe warns if a PSBT or transaction combines coin categories. 🔗✔ Removing possibilities for mistakes People have made many expensive mistakes in the past. Most of them can be prevented if people never type a seed into a computer. Bitcoin Safe prevents you from using seeds on your computer, and encourages you to use a hardware signer. Bitcoin Safe has full support for the most common hardware signers (e.g. Coldcard, Coldcard Q, Bitbox02, Blockstream Jade, Trezor Safe, Foundation Passport, Keystone, Ledger, Specter DIY) Bitcoin Safe includes screenshots instructions for each hardware signer to guide you through every step coldcard-generate-seed.png 🔗✔ 🔋Batteries included🔋 Bitcoin Safe is designed to be easy to use. However all important power user features are included. Choose your own electrum/esplora server, mempool instance, and nostr relay CSV import & export everywhere RBF, Canceling a transaction, and editing a finalized PSBT and waaaay more: see the full feature list
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Better an Absence of Men Than Imperfect Men In U.S. high schools, you get 155 hours of Hitler, 3 minutes on Stalin, and zero on Pol Pot. Fifty years ago Pol Pot’s forces entered the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. This was perhaps the most insanely murderous regime in human history. And this occurred to the cheers and satisfaction of Western leftist intellectuals. The Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh lost his entire family to the communist takeover and subsequent genocide in Cambodia in the 1970s. His new film, “Meeting With Pol Pot,” dramatizes a real 1978 visit to Cambodia by three Western journalists. Many spoilers ahead ..... The communists in Cambodia turned an entire nation into a prison camp, then a graveyard. And they did this in the name of equality, fairness, dignity, and justice.