Instead of checking the price of Bitcoin, I more often now check if I've solo mine jackpotted 🤣

Don't - ask permission to buy bitcoin. Don't - sell your bitcoin. Don't - spend without replacing your bitcoin. Don't - lose your bitcoin. Don't - tell people the quantity of your bitcoin. Don't - diversify your bitcoin. Don't - try to change bitcoin.

Be excellent to each other.

I tell my wife, "we'll deal with the days that come, not worry about the days that might come". A constant battle.

I'm going to do a public tutorial series in stages, where you can follow along and learn gpg and sha256 verification skills. Lessons in small manageable chunks. Use #gpgparman to find related posts, and bookmark this one as I'll add subsequent tutorials in replies. Let's begin... You can follow along with a computer (not a phone), Mac, Windows, or Linux. Today, let's just do a basic sha256 hash of a file with some explanations. Step 1: Download my free pdf book (why not make a smol plug?) from this website, click the download button on the page...

The Orange Pill Book – Bitcoin Guides

Alternatively, the direct link to the file is... https://armantheparman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/The-Orange-Pill-Book.pdf It should download to your downloads directory. The size is 32.52 MB, but how can you be sure you truly downloaded the correct file, and where does the trust start and end? This is where hashing comes in. (It doesn't matter much for a PDF, but it's crucial for a Bitcoin Wallet!) A hash is a computer function that takes data and produces a numerical fingerprint of fixed value - a random-looking big number. There are many properties to hashes, the relevant thing here is that if you repeatedly hash the same data, you'll always get the same fingerprint. If you want a detailed explanation of mining, I have an essay,

SHA256 and Bitcoin Mining Walkthrough – Bitcoin Guides

Anyway, if I hash my PDF file, and report the result to you, then when you hash it and get the same value, you know we have identical copies. If you get a different result, it's likely you did something wrong, downloaded the wrong file, or the file got modified from what I originally published. While you still trust I'm giving you a friendly product, you're no longer trusting the delivery system (the internet and anyone trying to trick your computer), ie the file hasn't been tampered with because the hashes are identical. Step 2: This is the hash of my file, make a note of it: 23cd0813cc811d8cf11995335ca6c74825e9b97b4571f80f4d99abe5aa81bdd1 Step 3: For Mac and Linux, open the terminal and find your file. If it's in the downloads directory, you can get there by typing: cd ~/Downloads <enter>Windows ls <enter> For Windows, open cmd and type cd downloads <enter> dir <enter> For Parmanode computers, I have included a shortcut as part of 'ParmaShell', just type dl <enter> The above instructions will list everything in the downloads directory (A text-based version of exploring files). You should see the pdf file in there and the spelling of the filename. The-Orange-Pill-Book.pdf Make sure the file has finished downloading before attempting the next step, it's possible to hash an incompletely downloaded file and then you'll get a hash value mismatch. Detour: A common reason why people get the wrong hash values on Macs is because they might download a zipped file, and once downloaded, the Mac operating system automatically unzips the file and throws the original in the trash! Without asking - Yes. Why? I don't know, it's dumb. Then, people hash the extracted file, get a mismatch and wonder what's going on. They need to remove the file from the trash and hash that file, not the extracted file. Moving on... have Now we hash the file. For Linux and Mac, type this in the terminal: shasum -a 256 The-Orange-Pill-Book.pdf For Windows: certutil -hashfile The-Orange-Pill-Book.pdf sha256 You should then get exactly the same hash as what I attest: 23cd0813cc811d8cf11995335ca6c74825e9b97b4571f80f4d99abe5aa81bdd1 Step 5: Now repeat the above command and hash any other file for practice. Then do the same file again and see that you get an identical result. That's it for now, I hope it was fun. I'll write more to build from this in a little while.

Give me your retarded, your poor, Your subscribed masses yearning to trade charts, The wretched refuse of your teeming engagement farm. Send these, the chairless, tempest-toss to me, I lift my lamp beside the orange door!

Embarking on a 5 hr series of physics lectures by Richard Feynman, "The character of physical law", 1964, because why not? Later, I might tackle the mysteries of the universe, IDK.

Bitcoin podcaster starter pack

Democracy is a scam

X is gradually getting worse because weak people are posting stupid things to get paid for engagement. Fuckem™

Not gay if it's a Bitcoiner and only the tip.

If Saylor buying 100,000 bitcoin doesn't move the price, will buying 22 million bitcoin move the price?

There are a lot of liberal women out there completely depressed... There is the rare one that might be cute... MAGA-guys, please don't take advantage of them with your charm in this delicate moment, they can't get abortions.

Happy Bitcoin Whitepaper Day!!

Everyone should wear a Guy Fawkes mask when they go out to vote on Nov 5.

A quick explanation of how to assess a Bitcoin miner for profitability... Let's take the S21 Pro. It has a hash rate of 234 TH/s. The world is hashing at 750M TH/s, so that machine will contribute to the following fraction of the world hash rate... 234/750,000,000 = 0.000000312 Cool. That means, if left on all day, it should generate the total world bitcoin reward for the day multiplied by that percentage... 450 bitcoin x 0.000000312 = 0.00014040 bitcoin (14,040 stats) So the S21 Pro produces 14k sats per day if left on. The next question is how much that costs per day. The machine is rated at 3510 Watts, or 3.51 kW, 3.51 kilojoules per second. Electricity prices are in $/kWhr ($/energy). BTW, Energy is kW (kJoules/second) multiplied by 1 hr (ie E / time x time) = Energy. So 3.51kW * 1hr = 3.51kWhr is the amount of energy used in 1 hour by this machine, and x 24 = 84.24 kWhr in one day. How much does 84.24 kWhr, which was used in the day to produce 14k sats, cost? If your electricity price is 0.06c per kWhr, then it costs: 84.24 kWhr x 0.06 $/kWhr = $5.05 per day. So $5.05 to produce 14k sats. At what price are you effectively "buying" bitcoin? We need the units $/bitcoin... 5.05 ÷ 0.00014040(ie 14k sats) = $35968 The current market price is $72,000 It means that if you pay full price for the s21 Pro ($6318), and have cheap electricity at 0.06c/kWhr (I pay around 20c US btw where I live), you will be mining bitcoin profitably, but... you need to recover the cost of the ASIC. $72000 x 0.0001404 bitcoin means that you're earning about $10.10 per day in bitcoin, and paying $5.05 in electricity. $5 per day profit will take a while to pay off that $6,318 miner!! (3.46 years) How can it make sense? Answer: Well, if the bitcoin price doubles, guess what happens to the value of the ASIC? That will probably roughly double also - if it doesn't many people will buy them, bid up their price, and by turning them on also make mining less profitable. For the miner who got in early, that reduction in profitability is compensated for by a capital gain on the equipment. Meanwhile, they are still mining somewhat profitably - They'll be mining less than 14k sats/day as the hashrate goes up, but those sats will be worth more. And their daily costs are static. Another way to put it... MINING COST FOLLOWS PRICE ...not the other way around as with every other commodity in nature. For everything else, the price follows the cost to produce. I like to call it "anchored" to the cost of production. For Bitcoin, the cost to produce is anchored to the price, and this is fundamentally due to the difficulty adjustment, which keeps the daily production constant regardless of price. OK, that was a long explanation, not quick, sorry, I lied. Here's the other thing that most people don't think about... That $6k miner that was bought hoping for a bitcoin price pump... what if you just bought $6k worth of bitcoin today? You probably would end up with more sats. Mining is fun but opportunity cost is a bitch.

I can't wait for the release of the JFK files, Epstein files and Diddy files.

GM Bitcoiners... Umbrel supports an insideous shitcoin used as barter and pretending to compete as money, that has hard forked 15 times and pretends to magically give you privacy, and... Parmanode is Bitcoin only, with easy to follow code that you can learn from. It also has a tool that lets you import your Unbrel external drive and make it work with Parmanode, no need to resync the timechain. Act accordingly.

Bitcoin is both paradoxical and not paradoxical the same time.

The moment Oprah realised she shouldn't have bought ETH.