Dr -ck

Bitcoin's cgminer,ckpool,admin of http://solo.ckpool.org,-ck kernel,Anaesthetist,Japanese translator,HiFi,astronomy,nutrition,anime geek

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nprofile1qqsq8m206z2clq6nk052sjfm46qtxk5x3gv7c34xentqe4fw2tfjjcspzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsfnqvxr

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Last Notes

2026-04-02 22:00:41 UTC

Congratulations to miner bc1qtt7cr9cxykyp9g4hq47zf5lq9t97cxvq72lun3 with ~230TH for solving the 312th solo block at solo.ckpool.org!
A miner of this size has a 1 in ~28k chance per day of solving a block.
mempool.space/block/00000000…

2026-03-22 04:57:23 UTC

Switched to Devuan Linux after using Kubuntu for almost 20 years. Snap, systemd, and imminent age verification were the main reasons.

2026-03-20 05:52:31 UTC

Happy(?) 39 trillion everyone. Accelerating.
https://blossom.primal.net/3f74436f82374267adba0f1cae0e66477499f318021c929740a56ab8265d4070.png

2026-02-17 00:33:17 UTC

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The networking update to ausolo.ckpool.org is now complete, and fortunately there was no significant downtime.
Mine on!
#nevent1q…4yvf

2026-02-16 04:17:22 UTC

I'm planning to rework the http://ausolo.ckpool.org networking this afternoon. There will be a period of downtime while this happens, and when it returns it will likely be on a different IP address so it may take a while for your miners to recognise the change. As always, make sure to have a backup pool configured in your mining hardware.

2026-02-16 04:15:45 UTC

I'm planning to rework the ausolo.ckpool.org networking this afternoon. There will be a period of downtime while this happens, and when it returns it will likely be on a different IP address so it may take a while for your miners to recognise the change. As always, make sure to have a backup pool configured in your mining hardware.

2026-02-13 03:22:41 UTC

Lrzip version 0.660
https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip/tree/v0.660
Lrzip is an ancient command line compression tool I created for linux based on the original Rzip tool designed to use maximum resources on modern hardware for high levels of compression in the least possible time, with optional secure encryption, and have been maintaining on and off for many years. I finally found the time to give it a long overdue maintenance and security bugfix update.
All existing users are urged to update. Get it while it's hot.

2026-02-11 23:25:57 UTC

I've removed the separate ckpool-solo repository from bitbucket to avoid confusion. It has long since been merged into the master ckpool branch with the same code so you will be redirected to that if you try to access it. https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool/src/master/

2026-02-02 05:11:56 UTC

eusolostats.ckpool.org has been migrated to the more powerful server. Assuming everything is working fine you should notice no difference.
There may be a small interruption to your statistics that occurred during the migration period. Cached local DNS on your browsers means you may not immediately switch to the new server.

2026-02-01 04:27:20 UTC

solo.ckpool.org updates.
The EU solostats server is running low on disk space, so I intend to migrate it to a virtual subdomain on the much higher powered server running the main solostats.
The AU solo server's network performance is not meeting my expectations so it will be reconfigured over the next few days and there will be a short downtime. I will be providing notification where possible. As always, make sure to have a backup pool specified on your miners.

2026-02-01 02:01:42 UTC

2025-12-12 07:40:41 UTC

Be aware there is always trust involved when you mine at a pool, more so for solo blocks. New pools keep springing up without any reputation and make great offers. The least you can do is check what address the pool is mining to, if it claims to be mining solo blocks for you.
https://skot.github.io/pool_checkr/

2025-12-11 23:11:49 UTC

Congratulations to miner 1Ng9~VoQz with 270TH for solving the 311th solo block at solo.ckpool.org! A miner of this size has a 1 in 30,000 chance of solving a block per day.
https://blossom.primal.net/1951500a0de0ecdb2a26034ac1ea75f457f575345a0732545d3bdc6eeb5e1b55.png
https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000001ac9929c4d1aa62610efe8dd18837fdf445b3c47f5cf

2025-11-30 00:08:51 UTC

Congratulations to miner bc1q~aalj with ~200TH for solving the 310th solo block on the eusolo.ckpool.org server! A miner of this size has a 1 in ~35K chance of solving a block each day.
https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000128b8e814ce04f8b9b61ef4485023028afebfcf6bb4a8
https://blossom.primal.net/f16cca637ae16153e0193e5e652d43ddc5b32e07de376fc9cf6eb7bfcbbf3a4d.png

2025-11-28 00:25:30 UTC

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I tried posting this yesterday but all the PC web interfaces to Nostr are being stupid at my end.

2025-11-28 00:24:53 UTC

Congratulations to miner bc1q~xv9n with ~700TH for solving the 309th solo block at solo.ckpool.org! A miner of this size has a 1 in 10,000 chance of solving a block each day.
https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000000a8e30a009cd15c7c8ee207cfc352eac02e653e182ba5

2025-11-21 22:42:01 UTC

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Correction, 180M per block, it's 1.2M per day.

2025-11-21 19:11:19 UTC

Congratulations to extremely lucky miner 3K99~Ct8M with only SIX TH for solving the 308th solo block at http://solo.ckpool.org. A miner of this size has only a a in 180 million chance of solving a block each day!
https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000001457a4acc5da8e886dddd0a79a6899957a502e0a1977b

2025-09-07 21:39:27 UTC

Congratulations to miner bc1q~jr38 for solving the 307th solo block at solo.ckpool.org, with only 200TH!
https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000180aab2a364d0baeddacf4048d0600065390a81651829
A miner of this size only has a 1 in ~36,000 chance of solving a block each day, or once every ~100 years!

2025-09-01 03:18:09 UTC

Congratulations to massive new rental miner bc1q~4kzx for solving the 306th solo block at http://solo.ckpool.org!
https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000000978f2aa548b12b9fe7da9e2809d25f2d40ddfb63c1ae
https://m.primal.net/ROCa.png

2025-08-18 00:57:10 UTC

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It's not a meme, it's fact, and knots is just bitcoin core with Luke's own selected patches on top.

2025-08-18 00:26:21 UTC

Sub 1sat/vB transaction discussion and reversal of decision to mine them on solo ckpool.
Block 910440 https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000000d22167aa0c9d1a49e7878631d6c93ea1b1c87b98ba24 is the first block that solo ckpool has mined that has included sub 1sat/vB transactions. I made this change because the bulk of the mining pools are now mining transactions below the default (until now) mempool policy of mining transactions only 1sat/vB or above. The reason for switching solo ckpool was partially out of necessity - if the mempool differs substantially from what other pools are mining, when other pools mine a block with low fee transactions, solo ckpool will be slow to build new blocks. The reason is because of the disparity in what is in the pool's mempool and it missing transactions included, so it would have to ask for the missing transactions before it can build a full block.
Now that solo ckpool has mined a block with sub 1sat/vB transactions I have data on the reward mined as the result of a low transaction fee period. Of the ~4900 transactions mined in this block, ~3300 were sub 1sat/vB transactions. It took some time to sift through the data of these transactions to determine what the mined fees were. They amounted to ~.0018 BTC more in fees, or ~$220. This is ~.06% of the current 3.125 BTC block reward.
These particular low fee transactions were very small and appeared to create 1-2 UTXOs each.
In light of how ridiculously small the extra fees mined were by accepting these transactions, and the potential for creating a significant number of new UTXOs, I am reversing my decision to mine these transactions. To maintain solo ckpool's ability to be aware of these transactions in the mempool I will only be setting the minrelaytxfee to accept and forward them, but not setting a lower blockmintxfee to mine them.
The block reward needs to have dropped substantially for such low fee transactions to add meaningful reward to mining pools, and I would only consider doing so if the reward was at least 1% more. The block reward would need to have dropped below 0.2 BTC total meaning we are decades away from such fees to be significant. By that time the landscape is likely to be very different to the current one, and it is unknown if fees will remain low that far away. A lower minimum fee is also likely to worsen fees' ability to be a significant contributor to mining rewards as block subsidy diminishes.
I implore other pool owners to do their own calculations and reconsider their decision to mine them at this stage.

2025-08-17 10:25:55 UTC

Congratulations to miner bc1q~nwsgdw0wfh4trqal69fz with 9PH for solving the 305th solo block at solo.ckpool.org! A miner of this size has about a 1 in 800 chance of solving a block per day.
https://m.primal.net/RLYa.png
https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000000d22167aa0c9d1a49e7878631d6c93ea1b1c87b98ba24

2025-08-05 06:18:57 UTC

Create your own local solo bitcoin mining ckpool & bitcoind easy install
It's clear that the default ckpool installation requires a bit of linux knowhow so I've created an all-in-one script to automate the process for you.
Quick instructions for most linux distributions:
wget https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool/raw/master/scripts/install-ckpool-solo.sh
chmod +x install-ckpool-solo.sh
sudo ./install-ckpool-solo.sh
Whilst a dedicated high performance pool for regular or solo mining is still likely the preferred option for most people, everyone should have the ability to run their own truly solo mining operation even if just as their final backup. It should also be easy for as many people as possible to deploy one quickly in the case of an existential mining threat.
This will download ckpool source code, v29.0 bitcoin daemon binary, check its validity, install the daemon, build ckpool, and install it, configured for solo mining, and begin downloading the blockchain. Follow the prompts or simply press enter for the default settings.
Should work on any .deb or .rpm based linux distribution (ubuntu, debian, fedora, centos, rhel) to download required packages. Installs both as systemd services as the current user but can configure a new ckpool user for both. It will allow you to choose to run a pruned bitcoin blockchain to minimise hard drive storage, but it is recommended to use a full blockchain and have enough storage space to spare. The current blockchain is almost 700GB, so ideally you should at least have double this space on the drive. You will be given the option to use a checkpoint hash to speed up the initial blockchain download, or disable it for maximum paranoia. It will use any existing blockchain data in ~/.bitcoin if it exists for the chosen user.
Bitcoind will be preconfigured with suitable mining defaults, and ckpool will be configured to start in solo mining mode on port 3333 on the current machine. You will be unable to mine to it until the bitcoin daemon has synced up the full blockchain.
You will be given the option to enable donation to the ckpool author, and a custom signature to be added to any solved blocks.
Higher performance modern computing hardware and storage is recommended if you are to maintain a dedicated local solo mine and not just a backup of last resort.

2025-07-27 22:27:04 UTC

Congratulations to the 2nd solo block solver 35mU~8hK7 in 2 days for solving the 304th solo block at https://solo.ckpool.org! This was a huge miner with 270PH at the time of solving the block.
https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000001e6a5aec8788183793b27370ef638b152b4d02f9f0787
A miner of this size has about a 1 in 20 chance of solving a block each day, however this miner doesn't appear to have been mining continuously at that hashrate for very long, and the worker size suggests this was a rental.https://m.primal.net/RHxB.png

2025-07-26 21:33:25 UTC

Congratulations to miner 35Wu~yPhF for solving the 303rd solo block at the EU https://solo.ckpool.org with only 49TH! https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000012b46e1a7ce322e850afde12422c440ee19d9c1b6d74a
A miner of this size only has a one in 130,000 chance of solving a block in a year or once every 370 years on average!
https://m.primal.net/RHnY.png

2025-07-11 00:06:15 UTC

Congratulations to miner 35ny~zePa with an enormous 200PH for solving the 302nd solo block solved at https://solo.ckpool.org!
https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000161bc7461e9736bcda0f28458bd75265019864961aefb
A miner of this size would solve a block once every ~35 days on average at current mining difficulty.

2025-07-07 04:57:00 UTC

Any solo bitcoin miners out there interested in me opening an AU based solo ckpool for miners in the Oceania/Asia-Pacific region?

2025-07-07 02:18:30 UTC

https://m.primal.net/REaa.png

2025-07-05 22:22:11 UTC

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I wish.

2025-07-05 11:02:39 UTC

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Changed drastically, yes. Think like that specifically, no.

2025-07-05 09:35:59 UTC

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No, sorry. You'll have to mine elsewhere for that.

2025-07-05 06:45:33 UTC

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Starting in a few hours now. I've put a bitaxe on there myself as a show of moral support. Good luck.
#nevent1q…k57c

2025-07-05 03:05:51 UTC

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Saddest part of this block party is that it will be happening whilst I'm asleep, but I'll be more than happy to congratulate them on any block(s) solved first thing in the morning.
#note155n…gyls

2025-07-05 02:13:22 UTC

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Thanks. No, so far I've only done planetary imaging.

2025-07-05 02:04:34 UTC

Saturn captured this morning 2024-07-04 UTC.
https://m.primal.net/REIu.jpg https://m.primal.net/REIv.jpg

2025-07-04 23:27:52 UTC

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Brainfart correction: It hasn't been 15 years, it's my 15th year in the space.

2025-07-04 13:26:59 UTC

I'm often surprised by the reception I get to telling relatively old stories of bitcoin mining but I have to keep reminding myself how dynamic and ever-changing the landscape and audience is that has zero knowledge of the past.
The bitcoin audience lifecycle seems to be only about 18 months old, with a fresh batch of bright eyed enthusiastic people who are getting their information purely from social media these days. I also see the same kind of arguments rehashed on a regular basis as has been since day one - each debate being seen as some kind of existential threat when the vast majority of them are almost always a storm in a teacup.
The good thing is it's a sign there's always new bitcoiners in the space. The bad thing is the longer we're in the space, the less energy we have for arguing what we see as trivialities. Many of us (me included) have had painful interactions along the way which also makes us take a much more hands-off approach and/or lose enthusiasm for intense development on a scale we once did. Just remember that silence is not a sign we accept that we have lost a debate.
It's the two-edged sword of a truly consensus based protocol, but ultimately is a superpower since nothing ever progresses without endless debate, and leads to the best result for bitcoin.

2025-07-04 01:43:20 UTC

It's now been just over 15 years since I first contributed patches to cpuminer as my entry into the bitcoin world. What a ride it's been, and it still feels like we're just getting started.

2025-07-04 01:29:25 UTC

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Why're they mining before the party starts?

2025-07-03 23:25:48 UTC

Congratulations to miner bc1qyj7x3d64znz2jdn28k0fxl8pq4q39a3ke79sj3 with 2.3PH for solving block number 301 on the EU http://solo.ckpool.org!
A miner of this size has about a 1 in 2800 chance of solving a block every day, or once every 8 years on average.
https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000004c918a929cb2710b5376dcdd89e719c521dc5255115c

2025-07-03 03:30:06 UTC

A block party aiming for a combined total hashrate of 7EH on solo.ckpool.org is planned for this Saturday the 5th. It's being coordinated here https://upendo.rigly.io/

2025-06-29 08:49:20 UTC

Bitcoin mining difficulty had its biggest drop in a very long time of 7.5% to ~117T. Still insanely high but won't last and will no doubt return to the same level as previously once the weather in Texas becomes inclement. It will also take less time to return to its former self.

2025-06-27 04:24:54 UTC

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It uses FROST - Flexible Round-Optimized
Schnorr Threshold Signatures.

2025-06-12 03:44:12 UTC

Saturn captured on 2025-06-10 UTC. The rings are now just barely visible.
https://m.primal.net/RALq.jpg

2025-06-12 02:37:17 UTC

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.

2025-05-21 09:14:23 UTC

Saturn captured 2025-05-18.
https://m.primal.net/QwYp.jpg https://m.primal.net/QwYq.jpg https://m.primal.net/QwYr.jpg https://m.primal.net/QwYs.jpg

2025-05-11 22:21:59 UTC

Saturn captured this morning 2025-05-12. I've added a version with gamma applied which makes the very thin rings visible.
https://m.primal.net/QumR.jpg
https://m.primal.net/QumS.jpg

2025-05-11 01:41:05 UTC

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.
https://frostsnap.com/
https://m.primal.net/Qtvm.png

2025-04-11 21:39:02 UTC

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.
https://m.primal.net/QMPZ.png
https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000003d9a1a59f93a992c0858d3d15627a87fe5649b76563e

2025-03-29 20:16:27 UTC

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!
https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000005afed55b551d961220653a05daa8f362de2a384d8cea
A miner of this size has about a one in 2,000 chance if finding a block per day.

2025-03-11 05:03:12 UTC

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From the pool logs' worker name, which corresponds with the hashrate of a bitaxes.

2025-03-10 21:30:18 UTC

Congratulations to a super lucky miner bc1qaxccz85rx6ywy2xw6ugtm6u37mvew6qqn7lgtd with only 3.3TH who solved the 297th solo block at https://solo.ckpool.org with a 480GH bitaxe!
https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000006414aea39be567cf1d5ff6cbf2d77254fe7c714b0d81
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.

2025-01-29 05:19:50 UTC

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.

2024-12-02 22:49:33 UTC

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Neutral, undecided

2024-12-01 01:35:25 UTC

Prove to me you don't understand why bitcoin and not shitcoins without saying you don't understand bitcoin...
https://m.primal.net/MlEw.png

2024-11-30 07:26:10 UTC

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What I run today is ckpool, mining pool software I wrote, in solo mining configuration as solo.ckpool.org

2024-11-29 11:36:24 UTC

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

2024-11-29 08:51:17 UTC

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Okay thanks. Yeah only a fraction of the followers I have on X would explain it.

2024-11-28 22:52:22 UTC

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For reasons unknown (probably something to do with nostr propagation of notes from my poorly connected part of the world) my own posts on nostr don't seem to get any traction.

2024-11-28 22:46:26 UTC

The EU solo ckpool is up and running! Connect to the pool via instructions at http://eusolo.ckpool.org. Graphical stats available at http://eusolostats.ckpool.org. Miners in Europe and Africa are encouraged to move to the new pool. Miners in The Americas and Asia-Pacific should still use http://solo.ckpool.org but the sister pool can be used as backup.
This is an entirely separate pool from http://solo.ckpool.org 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.

2024-11-18 21:46:02 UTC

Here's a little podcast I did with bitcoin mining world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c46ATjHL-I

2024-10-08 03:47:25 UTC

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:
http://solostats.ckpool.org

2024-10-03 10:45:05 UTC

Saturn captured in excellent conditions 2024-09-27
https://m.primal.net/LJjW.jpg

2024-09-29 13:42:35 UTC

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Cool, I'm all for more solo mining.

2024-09-26 07:36:18 UTC

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.
https://m.primal.net/LCZS.gif

2024-09-04 02:48:57 UTC

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Confusing, it says lnurl is outdated but wants an lnurl in the ln address field?

2024-09-04 02:22:29 UTC

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Also amethyst says that lnurl is the outdated one.

2024-09-04 02:21:54 UTC

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I put wos address in for now.

2024-09-04 01:33:15 UTC

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I'm primarily on desktop and everything was bad till I discovered primal. Amethyst on mobile is good though but I hate typing on phones.

2024-09-04 01:28:24 UTC

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I'd be here more except all the clients till recently kept dying and not communicating. It seems to have improved now.

2024-09-04 01:22:38 UTC

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The lack of Oceania relays would explain why I have connectivity issues.

2024-09-04 00:42:05 UTC

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And phoenix is self custody so doesn't support it. Guess I could add a wos address.

2024-09-04 00:39:09 UTC

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Amethyst says lnurl is deprecated

2024-09-03 22:01:48 UTC

Saturn captured in infrared 2024-08-18
https://m.primal.net/Kcrj.jpg

2024-08-29 21:36:45 UTC

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. https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000016ccd32328638865256249e592246bfae8af4031dda01

2024-08-28 08:58:43 UTC

Is there any way to post polls on nostr?

2024-08-28 01:31:01 UTC

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?

2024-08-28 00:57:07 UTC

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It's terminal.

2024-03-03 02:54:13 UTC

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Virtue signalling for the disgruntled rather than having an actual informed platform. Can't say I'm surprised.

2024-03-02 23:52:56 UTC

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I'd like to like your post but as I just said, like is the only thing I can't do.

2024-03-02 23:43:10 UTC

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.

2024-03-02 14:07:00 UTC

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.
https://i.nostrimg.com/4927930484879958da57d15e1802454d8f8d587321d208c2f3521a9cbc34b46f/file.jpg

2024-01-15 03:22:20 UTC

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travala.com accepts Bitcoin

2024-01-15 03:21:39 UTC

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👋

2024-01-06 04:32:03 UTC

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!

2023-04-25 08:32:34 UTC

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Cthulhu burger.

2023-04-20 04:55:45 UTC

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All software engineers can sympathise.

2023-04-20 04:23:14 UTC

Partial solar eclipse as seen from Melbourne, Australia.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_e659a233b15f9e16981dce111b1e8c924204a284ccb93eb3f389ab9a51d18a8c.jpg

2023-04-20 03:14:06 UTC

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There are countless dialects in Japan of varying difference from the main language, but everyone understands the Tokyo dialect, the defacto standard Japanese language.

2023-04-19 22:37:39 UTC

Saturn captured this morning in infrared.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_cd5f09138b3e76c696bf3bc61f38b403951502bae2bc45b5842bd2468fc2e0e2.png

2023-04-16 22:08:22 UTC

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

2023-04-04 22:02:45 UTC

Fixing the stupid dog with nuke anything.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_903758abade49ca90133adb351eada93c7288e576b79d5cc5f700dd553e22d94.jpg

2023-04-04 21:39:21 UTC

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Bitcoin difficulty adjusts accordingly if they mine a lot more of them and we welcome them to help secure the network.

2023-04-04 13:29:45 UTC

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His profile has an iris.to address so fair to assume iris.

2023-04-04 13:29:03 UTC

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Welcome aboard.

2023-04-04 11:10:26 UTC

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Welcome.

2023-03-21 07:07:33 UTC

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Oh I can create a fork of Bitcoin that creates infinite Bitcoin, but no one in their right mind would use it.

2023-03-12 21:58:43 UTC

Congratulations to the group miners "BlockParty" with 17PH of rented hashrate who solved the 271st solo block on http://solo.ckpool.org https://explorer.btc.com/btc/block/780525

2023-03-10 08:19:33 UTC

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A miner of this size will solve a block on average about once every 10 months, but they've only been mining solo for the last 2 days so has been very lucky. There is no way of knowing how many times they've intermittently pointed hashrate at solo ckpool before though.