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You have to add two rules to the analogy
- the bird will only fall after the last buss has left the station
- the bird will not fall unless the driver has already started his engine  
The last one is tricky because in the analogy the driver just spends gas while in the mining scenario it can actually profit.


Those fees are driving us all crazy that we started to think it empty blocks are a thing of past eras but no, the mempool was empty for at least a few seconds during last springs, not full blocks were quite common and there were some moments when indeed it was empty, of course not for more than a few seconds probably till the next tx came but it still did happen.


I know that timestamps are really tricky, but is there a way to find out the smallest interval two full blocks have been found even with approximation?
Viabtc, f2pool offer the data to the seconds but crawling that seems like a pain in the ass and I don't think it's worth the effort.

Was she protected by a silver spoon?

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/12c6DSiU4Rq3P4ZxziKxzrL5LmMBrzjrJX

isn’t this first block

Saturday post. OK let's talk flicks.

I haven't found anything worthwile recently, except Sisu.  A one-against-the-nazis gory cartoon set in Finland during WW2, halfway between John Wick and Tarantino.  Shallow and enjoyable.

7/10, maybe 8/10 if it bears re-watching in a couple years or so.

This would be true if they had the chance to include transactions and chose not to, but this isn't the case, and probably will never be the case for any pool out there, every pool on the planet mines empty blocks except for Kano and CK, maybe a few more here and there, it would be very hard to prove that x pool intentionally mined an empty block while they had the chances to include transactions, I believe antpool did it around the blocksize debate and the forks, but it's not something you could take to court, they can just claim they had a bug in their software and they were not able to create a block templet with transactions.

However, Ocean pool is at risk of dying on its own if the Ordinal wave continues and its clients see that they are missing out on some good profit just because Luke decided to ban/censor ordinal transactions, this theory holds true assuming all of their clients do know and understand how mining fees work, but then seeing a pool like Antpool that provides PPLNS for 0% while keeping 100% of the transaction fees still has users mining on their PPLNS -- it simply proves that many people are just stupid. if Ocean attracts the same type of people, those people won't even care to check if they are making less and will continue to run on Ocean.

Of course, this is good for everybody else who uses a pool that doesn't ban ordinals, every sat of fee that Ocean leaves on the table is going to be taken by someone else, I'd rather see stupid people mine on Ocean than see them mine on antpool PPLNS, since they are going to lose money anyway, it's better to lose it the other miners and not to Bitmain.

I don't understand how Nvidia is connected to kawpow. 4 cheap RX 470 graphics cards for $240 give the same hashrate as a $2000 RTX 4090 graphics card.
While the kawpowd algorithm gives a second, third... and so on life to old video cards like RX 470 and ASICs for this coin are not planning to appear.

Presently, Nvidia generates more revenue from their data center and networking market segment (which includes data centre platforms as well as autonomous vehicle solutions and cryptocurrency mining processors) than from their graphics reporting segment. In FY2023, Nvidia generated US$15.01 billion in Data Center revenue, which accounted for 55.6% of the total revenue generated for the year. This presents an increase in Data Center revenue of 41% from 2022, where Nvidia has shown year-on-year growth in Data Center revenues of over 40% since 2020. Contrast this to other AI chip designers – such as AMD (who recently acquired Xilinx) and Qualcomm – and it is clear that Nvidia are establishing early dominance in the data center AI space.

The company is not resting on its laurels either. While the A100 is presently the most commonly used chip for AI purposes within data centers, Nvidia announced early this year the H100 GPU, based on their new Hopper architecture. The Hopper architecture is built in TSMC's 4N process (an enhanced version of the 5 nm node), incorporating 80 billion transistors (the A100 has 54.2 billion transistors, made in a 7 nm process). With speedups ranging from 7X to 30X across training and inference when compared with the A100 – as well as a comparable thermal design power in the PCIe form factor – Nvidia will be supplying the key hardware necessary to run the increasingly complex AI algorithms of tomorrow.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-market-cap-exceeds-us-183200361.html
With such success, Nvidia will not pump new coins for mining on gaming video cards.

While I appreciate those folks that have researched and considered what the next halving might look like based on 2020, I would urge caution in doing so. The COVID pandemic disrupted most of the planet in terms of supply chains, shipping, and overall economic activity. I don't think that Bitcoin would be immune to that as well. Lots of external forces directly influence BTC price which can drive a lot of other actions in the overall sphere of Bitcoin.

Just my thought.