0:08

We do have amazing guests that come in. We had 1 guy, drove, cross was driving cross country from Connecticut

0:15

and, stopped by. Yeah. And I thought he said Kentucky. So I was like, oh, cool. Wait. Did you say Connecticut? And he was on his way to California. And then we had another, gentleman, Kalle,

0:25

from Sweden who wrote 2 awesome books. 1, Grocking Bitcoin, and 2, Bitcoin Development Philosophy with his wife,

0:33

and very kind. So thank you very much, Kale, for,

0:37

dropping these books out. On one of the one of the episodes, I was like

0:44

I was like, what's the number where you'd shave your beard and you're like, there's no number? I'm like, okay. Let's play this game. I'm like, $100,000

0:53

Bitcoin. And, like, no. I'm like, $1,000,000

0:55

Bitcoin. And that is like, no. I was like, you can shave my head, my beard, whatever at a $1,000,000

1:01

Bitcoin. Yes. That too.

1:07

And, no. He kept steadfast, he said, you know, and then you gave an eloquent little, speech. Yeah. I'm trying to remember what my analogy was.

1:17

Something about a sex change. Like, I wouldn't I wouldn't cut off my manhood

1:22

I don't know if you went that far in the episode, but

1:25

I think it was just along the lines of, like, I can't be bought for it. Yeah. Something like that. Nobody could tell me what to do. Right.

1:32

Beard will grow back. You know? So $1,000,000

1:34

Bitcoin. Sailor's like, we're waiting on you to run this up, man. Yeah. I don't think so.

1:39

Don't hold your breath. We have about, like, 10,000 maybe last I checked, 20,000 folks in the audience right now, for those listening right now on the podcast, here at Bitcoin Park.

1:49

Show anyone in the 100 They're hanging from their afters. It's unbelievable. They're out of Vanderbilt's campus. Yeah. They're like,

1:56

anyone in the 100 push up challenge, by the way, doing a 100 push ups every day besides me? Oh, David, you're in? Okay. Good. Oh, you're posting on Noster. That's right. Good. Good. Good.

2:06

The Telegram group chat has dwindled down quite a bit

2:10

of who's been posting. It's now down to 4 of us. And I realized that the other day, I'm like, maybe

2:16

we need it just to get down to 1 in order to us to break through 100,000.

2:21

So maybe this is the last straw for

2:23

the 4 of us to kind of break. So maybe you need to quit

2:27

doing the push ups. You wanna be the last man standing? I wanna be the last man standing Okay. And doing the push ups and then we break through 100,000. Just keep increasing the number of push ups and they'll start dropping the supplies. I can't do that, boss. Can't do that, boss. Are are you maxed out or not? No. I'm maxed out. I'm maxed out a 100. It's it's it's a 100 push ups.

2:44

Chad, you good, buddy? Okay. Good.

2:49

So we have some general guidelines, you know. But a show of hands, whose first time here at the park? Okay. Rock and roll. Thank you so much for coming here.

2:57

We, do, like, a little bit of a recording with our podcast, pod 256, at the beginning,

3:03

and then we'll open we'll turn off the cameras and we'll open it up to, like, kind of a group discussion.

3:09

For generally our meetups, you know, I think most parts since somebody found us from meetup.com,

3:13

which is awesome. We talk about Bitcoin, the capital b, the monetary network, and Bitcoin lowercase b, the reserve asset.

3:21

The shit coins, cryptos, altcoins,

3:23

chad coins, NFTs, LFTs,

3:26

gold, whatever. That's another meetup. If you wanna go talk to Chad over there, he'll he'll love for you to join his meetup.

3:34

And, with no photo policy, so don't pull out your phone and so on. Hopefully, nobody piked,

3:40

parked their car or bicycle in the church parking lot.

3:44

The acoustics in every single room except this room,

3:47

are amazing. So we'll keep side conversations to 0.

3:53

And I'm missing one more. Trash?

3:55

Trash. Please pick up after yourself. That's amazing. That's a good one. Yeah. I don't know if I always say that one.

4:01

And let's have some fun. Chatham House Rules. Let's not attribute anything. You can talk about it, but not attribute it to anyone.

4:07

And, Yeah. So I'm Rob Rudy, one of the cohosts of pod 2.56 as well as the cofounder of Bitcoin Park alongside my cohost, Econo Alchemist.

4:18

And, yeah, give Eco a big round of applause. Was that thank you.

4:25

They come here for you. Thanks, guys. Oh,

4:29

and then Scott has been kind enough. Now this is the 3rd month in a row you've been flying? Yeah. So the first money money yeah. Give him a round of applause as well, please.

4:41

Ico, you know, he's they're the right side of the bell curve on the smartness and I'm on the left side. So if they, like, color code my show notes for me to talk through all this stuff. So they gave me multiple choices,

4:52

for the comical banter to open up the, the show today. A is talk about the election. It was it was really meant as like a sequence of talking points.

5:02

Oh. Oh, okay. Tomorrow's election day. Who's gonna win?

5:06

I think Trump's gonna win. Trump's gonna win? Yeah. Okay. What about you, Scott?

5:11

Oh, man. Although this recording is probably gonna go out after the election? Yeah. Yeah. Well, but we probably won't know the results of the election. No. We no. We're gonna know the results. You're gonna know right away. Gotta know. We're gonna know tomorrow. Like, tomorrow night. Yeah. Yeah. I I think it's gonna be Trump. Okay.

5:27

K. I think so too. You think so too? Yeah. Okay. Who do you think it's gonna be?

5:32

Who do you want it to be? Well, I see. Now you're getting a little personal here, and I'm not sure I like that. Okay.

5:39

I'll take the first step. I want Trump to win. Yeah.

5:43

Because I wanna see Ross get sued. Yes. A 100% on that. So, yes,

5:48

that for sure. Especially if he's tweeting out free Ross day 1, I'll be like, dude, screenshot. Everyone's screenshot. And just, like, on day 1, it just, like, bombard his mesh mentions.

5:57

It's like, hey, man. That's all you number 1 is shit. Yeah. Just do it. Smokey wheel gets the oil. I just hope it's a landslide.

6:05

Either way, I just hope it's a complete landslide

6:08

and it's like, alright. That's the the victor and,

6:12

then we go go on about our lives and we can continue Bitcoin.

6:17

We were looking at the prediction markets earlier at the Nashville cold plunge and it it seems to have, like, evened out. Like, it's not,

6:25

the prediction, you know, the the gamblers don't think that Good job weaving in a cold plunge, by the way. Respect. I thought you meant like that.

6:32

Scott does a cold plunge. Anyone else in this audience do cold plunges by chance?

6:37

Nobody. Okay.

6:40

Well, you're gonna get all my signal. We're gonna join you into the cold plunge, and it'll change your life, For sure. You're coming with me, Bruce.

6:49

Anyways, election aside, you know, hopefully,

6:53

continue Bitcoin continues moving on and Well, really, the reason I had the election on there is because

6:58

all year Yep. I've been saying we'll hit 1 zeta hash Oh, that's right. That's right. By November 5th,

7:05

which is less which is tomorrow.

7:08

And we got close, like, 800 x the hash on the one day moving average. That's true. But on the 14 day,

7:16

we're still only at, like, 730 x of hash. That's right. And did we didn't we just have a difficulty adjustment?

7:22

Yeah. Just like, an hour ago. Cool. So Yeah. So,

7:27

today is Mining Monday. Again, Scott was kinda has been kind enough to come, for all of our Mining Mondays and hopefully comes for all our future Mining Mondays. I do wanna give a quick shout out. He just became a Bitcoin Park member. His membership was sponsored

7:40

by our very own David Strayhorn over there. So please give David a huge round of applause.

7:47

We introduced this new program for, false developers,

7:51

that wanna become Bitcoin Park members, whether they wanna be here a day, a week, a month, a year, and come in jam with other amazing developers,

7:59

and other folks that want to contribute that may not be here. So

8:03

we've just married those 2 and it's been awesome. So welcome to the park, man.

8:08

And by the way, the 3 of us, real quick, we'll go through a couple more things and then we'll get started with the network, stats.

8:14

We're going to Africa in less than 30 days. Have you guys gotten your 30 days. Less less less. Yeah. Less. It's It's kinda less than 30 days. Alright. Have you guys gotten your visas? Yep. Nope. Okay. Yeah. I'm good tonight. I'm on it tonight. Tonight? Yeah. Okay. Good. Has anyone been to Africa before in this room? North Africa. Okay. That's Africa too. Yeah. Okay.

8:35

I'm not. Russia

8:38

and Egypt. Oh, nice. Okay. You you're right. It is totally different. North Africa versus South Africa versus West Africa versus East Africa. We are going to Nairobi, Kenya, for the Africa Bitcoin Conference December 7th through 10th, which will be freaking awesome.

8:54

Hopefully, we'll see some of you guys there. Maybe we'll we'll do some fun stuff down there. Yeah. We're gonna go on a safari.

9:01

We're gonna see the grid list site. Yep. And then the conference itself. So It'll be awesome. Yeah.

9:08

And this is, I think, our biggest best turnout thus far for these Mining Mondays, which is awesome. So thank you guys for coming out here.

9:15

If you guys want more mining content, Eco, what are you going to do? What are you going to start doing? Oh,

9:22

we're thinking about doing a newsletter, a monthly newsletter.

9:26

So once a month, I'll create a newsletter. It'll go out via email.

9:33

So we have a subscribe link on our website, 256foundation.org.

9:39

You can go there. You can submit your email address, and then we'll email you the newsletter once a month.

9:44

If you don't want to give me your email address,

9:47

you can just download the PDF or pull up the PDF from the website. It'll be available there.

9:53

Or if you think I'm logging IP numbers, then you can find it on Noster. It's unbelievable.

10:00

He he goes through this whole plan of, like so ego in a in a past life were some amazing guides. A lot of you, including myself,

10:08

were the beneficiaries of that. And then you write some monthly or weekly content for Bitcoin Magazine as well as upstream data, I believe. Yeah. I did upstream data for a year. I did their newsletters.

10:19

I was a regular publisher with,

10:23

Bitcoin Magazine for, like, two and a half years. That's awesome. And then,

10:28

I was writing for the brains mining blog for,

10:31

I don't know, like 8 months to a year. So we're gonna bring all that

10:35

funness Yeah. Over to, the 256 Foundation. Yep. Like, I always find these resources online. It's like, I just need the monthly digest of exactly what's going on so I can quickly look through go down the rabbit holes of the places I wanna really go down and so on. So I'm really excited about this,

10:52

this email. What is

10:55

256 Foundation? So you wanna explain the 256 Foundation real quick? So that's a it's a 501c3

11:02

that Rod and I cofound, this year.

11:05

And the mission of the 256 Foundation is to make bitcoin mining free and open.

11:11

We recognize that the node layer, the protocol layer, it's all open source. The application layer is all open source. But But then when we get to mining for some reason as Bitcoiners collectively,

11:26

everyone is settled on these closed source proprietary solutions

11:30

with Bitmain and Microbt. And so

11:34

we wanted to do some we wanted to be the change that we wanted to see in the world. So we started the 256,000,000.

11:40

Started as a meme, pretty much. Yeah. We're trying to meme it into reality.

11:44

And now, Kiki, that was a good segue because we're gonna announce a a pretty massive,

11:49

we announced it last month, but we didn't weren't able to publish that episode.

11:54

So for the folks that were in the room for that, they got a little bit of a tease. Yep. But, we're over the moon. That Heatbit,

12:03

came in with a pretty good good sized donation that put us over,

12:08

our first grant. And now our first grant is funded

12:11

and our first project is in the works,

12:14

as of November 1, which is super, super exciting.

12:18

It is not a Bitcoin hot tub, but we may have one here.

12:23

So yeah. Our I mean, we'll I should we just go into it now? Let's do it. Okay. So

12:29

do do you wanna do the honors? Yeah.

12:34

Yeah. So what we we we named it. Even even last month. Yeah. We named Last month. We're live. Shit about naming projects at 256 Foundation. Oh, we came up with some terrible names. We did some really terrible names. Yeah. We shouldn't mention those. That's fine. No? Okay. No. Let's not mention those because of the No. Like, we sat down and we came up with an epic name first try.

12:54

Well, Harry remember that correctly. Yeah. Yeah. Harry Sudhak came up with the name first try. Yeah.

13:00

And, but the project's even cooler. But the name is pretty dope. So please. Yeah. So the project is called the Ember 1, but the idea is to make a fully open source,

13:10

100 watt hash board. And so,

13:13

you know, if you don't know, most miners are composed of large hash boards that are like a 1000 watts. And the goal here is to make a smaller,

13:20

more usable, and of course fully open source, hashboard that's about a 100 watts. And we're gonna standardize,

13:27

that form factor and connection,

13:30

pinout and things so that, you know, that this form factor can kind of build as as ASICs improve and grow and and different use cases come about. This form factor can kind of be a standard like current Antminer hashboards are.

13:46

And the first one is going to be based off of the,

13:50

the ASIC, the BM 1362 out of the s 19j pro chip. And we're gonna build that up to be about a 100 watts. But the idea is that this, you know, could expand to include other ASICs.

14:01

See. Because some of the one of the biggest problems we've identified with with mining is there's a lot of people trying to innovate

14:09

in a lot of different areas like home heating,

14:11

heating their offices. They're trying to use miners in ways that

14:16

miners weren't designed to be used for.

14:18

And when you're dealing with closed source proprietary hardware, it becomes very difficult to customize that and fit that into

14:26

your unique business or home or whatever you're trying to do. And so if there are open source platforms out there like we're trying to build,

14:37

then people are going to have a lot more flexibility

14:40

and options when it comes to integrating mining into all sorts of things that we haven't even thought of yet.

14:46

So this is the little spark that we're hoping will turn into

14:51

a raging forest fire down the road that just burns down the closed source mining ecosystem.

14:57

Let's go. That's a good one. So this is about a 6 month project. Yep.

15:01

We got PM, which is Eco Yep. And we got you as the lead, on the project.

15:08

Paid in Bitcoin. Yep. That's the way to go. And we'll have an awesome update at the telehash.

15:14

Right, guys? January? Yeah. We we already started. Like, this is underway. Okay. Good. This this is gonna be cool. This is now where I get nervous where I actually paid them in Bitcoin. I'm like, oh, shit, man. My reputation is on the line. You guys really need to fulfill here. And we will. Oh, yeah. We got you. No problem. You're in good hands.

15:30

Me familiar, guys. So,

15:34

speaking of the telehash, telehash is still in the works. Jan January 29th. Hopefully, see all you guys here.

15:41

I'm gonna I I don't know how many hours I'm gonna be able to commit to it, but, you know 20?

15:46

20? 20 1 hours. 22. 20 1. Anywhere from, like, 1 to 21. 25 hours. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

15:55

That's actually a good one. But it's gonna be fun. We're gonna bring a lot of folks. A lot of folks are gonna be in town for the National Energy and Mining Summit, January 30th 31st as well.

16:04

Once we hash out the details, we're gonna share with this group here first,

16:09

and get your guys' feedback. And hopefully, you guys can all attend because that should be a really fun time.

16:15

What what are we what are we trying to do with this? We're gonna we're gonna try to raise a boatload of money for, 256 Foundation.

16:23

Scott really wants this and I kind of agree with him. He wants, like, phone booths. You get like, this is gonna date a lot of us in the room, but there used to be these telethons back in the day and they were, like, pan out to these people on the phone just picking up the phone like, hey, it's, you know, Madonna and, you know, hey, thanks for donating $10

16:43

click. You know, thanks for donating whatever, you know, blah blah blah. So we I don't know if we're gonna set that up.

16:49

Maybe, you know, Paul produces something where it's, like, thousands of people.

16:54

It could be omnishtastic. Yeah. Something like that. You know? But,

17:00

we could do something fun and make it fun. We're gonna have people all around the world just constantly pointing more and more hash rate towards this, like Right. Like, historic events. Do you think we could really get one extra hash? Yes.

17:13

Yes. Okay. Yeah. Let's do it. If we got one extra hash c k. By the way, I was looking in the mempool as a little bit of prep. There was a a quick tangent.

17:22

SCC pool? Oh, that's what I mean. Yeah. Yeah. They've been around for a little bit. They have. I that was the first time I saw it. I don't know what it stands for. I don't know. I don't think it's, like, Gary Gensler's

17:34

SCC mining pool. Oh, it's some, like, legit pool? I I don't know what SEC stands for but I don't It's a white pool on there too?

17:41

That's in there. Spider pool. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Okay. There's a bunch of weird pools.

17:48

Interesting. Voidpool?

17:55

Mister White. Miss okay.

17:57

Anywho, if you're looking to support the 2 d six foundation, we'd love your support. Whether on the technical side or on the on the supporting side. I do think we have a little bit of a different model where it's like, there's not like gonna be a 1,000 of these projects. I think there's gonna be about like 4 or 5 of these projects that we really wanna support

18:18

and continuously support because this is not gonna be something like, your project is gonna be solved, knock on wood, in 6 months, but it's gonna be one of these continuous things where we need to continue to,

18:28

recruit and invest in these different projects

18:31

to continue to open source Bitcoin mining.

18:34

Well, and it's about with this one, it's about iterations. Like, you know, the bidax is what? 15 watts? Yeah. Now we're doing a 100 watt hash board.

18:44

And like we were talking about earlier, I'm I have pretty lofty ambitions. Keep going. And, you know, I want to get to the point where we're doing like 1,000 watt

18:52

hash boards and like a fully open source platform,

18:57

open source control board, open source firmware.

19:01

So I mean, how cool would that be? Yeah. It's it's these are like building blocks. Right? We we

19:07

people can take these, iterate on them, create more and more. I mean, that's the idea. It's like kick start this sort of exponential development cycle.

19:14

When did you start the Biddex project? Like several years ago, but seriously, maybe a year and a half ago. Did you think in your wildest minds, like flash forward to today, where people would be reselling them, selling them at this volume? No way. No way. Never would have guessed. Do you think they'd be solving blocks with a bit ax? No. I never would have guessed that. Absolutely not. I mean, it just started as like screwing around and see if I could do it, and then

19:39

it then it started working. And next thing you know, like, people were building them and selling them. There's

19:44

I think we're we're over 15,000 of them is my best guess sold. So it's it's taken off. Show of hands, who's familiar with BitX? Do we need to kind of recap what BitX is? A lot of people know. Okay. Alexa. Yeah. But but but for the folks that are in the project in the ecosystem. Actually, I think I have one not plugged into your left. I got one running over there with Max Fin. You can kinda hear it. Oh, nice.

20:05

We'll show it to you guys, the folks that don't know what a BitX is after this, during our breakout.

20:11

But I mean, that's that's that's the idea, I think, with these, 256 foundation projects, right, is we're we're seeding,

20:17

like these ideas, these building blocks to get things going, to get people creating and just like,

20:22

you know, enable people who have crazy ideas to just go with it and run with it and build on it. Right. Because it's like,

20:29

you know, this this kind of development is what it's gonna take to go and get miners in, like, everyone's homes. Totally. Right.

20:36

As a member perk, I want I'm gonna continue to build out the retail store here at Bitcoin Park. So we have a partnership with CoinKite and Futurebit where we,

20:46

sell their products here at the park. Man, I've And then, oh my god, the 22 device,

20:55

as well. A couple merch items I think we're gonna do. But, I really wanna get a BitX, reseller here to work. That would be fantastic.

21:04

Consign like, I don't know, 10 or 20 of them because so many people just come up and like, hey, man, I just need one. I'm like, go to the bidax.org site and then go and click on the reseller link. But they're like, no, I want it right, like, right now. I don't wanna give anyone my address. I wanna just get it right now. Right. In person sales are great for privacy.

21:20

Another tangent. Nathan's not here, is he? Okay. He came did he really come up with this, King of the Hill idea

21:29

or this Yeah. Yeah. Well, we were at lunch with, with Jesse and we were we were just talking about how much fun people are having with that bid axe here. Yeah. So we have a bid axe here at the park and, basically, you can go in and change the wallet. Right? So everyone kinda comes in and changes the wallet address to be the king of the hill. And it's kind of a fun game. And then there was, you know, right now, like, I think you came in and changed the wallet address, then Nathan changes it, and then other people kind of change it. Imagine if you're like a coffee shop owner. Right? And you have a little bid axe. You can make it as like a fun little game of King of the Hill at your coffee shop or your bar or your restaurant or so on. So I think novel approaches to this is is pretty interesting.

22:09

I mean, I've seen people just showing up with all kinds of rad ideas and it's, you know, before with closed source, there was so much, like, to overcome to, like, even

22:19

change or modify it at all. Right? But now it's like it's out there. I mean, it's still not super easy, but, like, it's you can run with these things and like try them out, fuck around. It doesn't cost that much. Yeah.

22:30

Which is the goal. But yeah, I think that we're calling it geohashing

22:33

and it's like, I think it's pretty cool. Right? It's like there's these devices

22:38

physically located in places and you have to go there. Yeah. But once you do and you find it, you can put you can make it start mining to your address and maybe get lucky.

22:48

Man, that would be awesome. Yeah. That would be so cool. Alright. So we gotten now so,

22:54

Heatbit's a tier 2 supporter. HRF's a tier 2 supporter. Foundry's a tier 2 supporter. Yeah. I mean, massive shout out to to those folks. HRF in particular has this awesome financial freedom report. It's an another awesome email.

23:08

I'd highly recommend you guys check that out if if you haven't already.

23:11

I believe it's a weekly email that goes out.

23:14

And then Foundry just been, like

23:17

they they've been so kind. They literally didn't ask us many questions. They're like, here's 0.2

23:22

Bitcoin. And we're like, okay. Let's go. Let's go. We gotta figure this figure it out now.

23:27

So massive shout outs to those folks. I just wanna say it's Yeah. It's rad to see these people stepping up. Right? The TQ6 Foundation just started. Yeah. I know. Like, people are into this. So we we can't fuck this up, guys. We can't fuck this up. I think this is gonna happen. It's gotta happen.

23:42

6 months. Right, guys? Yeah. You got it.

23:47

Ron doesn't think we can do it. No. I'm I'm so doubtful. Doubt. My only nervousness around,

23:53

the timelines is when people give me timelines and they're confident in their timelines. Look, things happen. Don't get me wrong. I just wanna know early so that I can manage it. With that said, I like to aim above the mark to hit the mark. So when we're doing 6 months, it'd be great for you guys to do this by the telehash. How about that? Can we do this by the telehash? No. No. That's like 2 months. Uh-uh. That's No. No. Guys, November, December, January, 3 months? You guys can do it in 3 months? Nope.

24:20

We'll have something cool to show. Yeah. Alright. You have something cool to show. Okay. We got we got a we got a, a hierarchy of, prototypes.

24:27

Okay. Cool. Get there. So you have something cool to show at the Tel Ash? Yeah. Alright. Good. Good. I mean, I already have something cool.

24:33

That's my man. One of the other cool things is the Hashers that point us Hash, every week.

24:40

You wanna come out and, call out some of the Hashers real quick? Yeah. Sure. We've been, risk so for anyone who doesn't know, you can support the podcast by pointing some of your hash rate to our mining accounts

24:54

and then we get those mining rewards. And so those mining rewards

24:59

have helped us. We use those mining rewards to buy the conference tickets to the Africa Bitcoin conference.

25:07

So Not enough to buy our plane tickets, though? No. Not not quite enough for the plane tickets, but that's

25:13

that's okay. We still appreciate every A 100%. Every hash we can get. And the names are great. So, yeah. People like to throw me some curve balls with their minor's names. So real quick on the bid ax. If you get a bid ax, how do you change the name on a bid ax?

25:28

So you it has a dashboard just like any other miner. So it'll have a IP address first? Yeah. You go to the IP address in your browser. There's a whole dashboard. There's a settings page. And the way Iko has this set up is the worker name is what he's reading. So depending on what pool you're using, they have different ways to enter your worker name. But if you're on a solo mining pool, it's usually your wallet address and then a dot and then the worker name. Yep. So if you want free advertising, basically, on pod 256 Right.

25:58

Get your bid ask to point Well, it's not free because you're mining and paying for the electricity. That's right. Or maybe somebody else's electricity. But yeah. But, you know, you're spending, what, like, $10 a day on electricity,

26:09

but you're reaching, what, 3 to 10,000,000

26:13

listeners? That's right. So it's Ish. Yeah. Ish.

26:17

Pretty good bang for your buck. So There's one running on your electricity right now. I know. When did that? I was just thinking about that when you when you pointed over there. I'm like, how many freaking bid access are in this place right now running? No one knows. No one knows. Maybe 15,000 like you said before. Yeah. Probably.

26:33

Alright. So this month, we've been receiving hash rate from

26:36

SATS stacking plebs slim 19 retrofit

26:41

kit. Wow. Thank you.

26:44

We've been sat stacking pleb with the new s 19 air baffle kit.

26:53

Oh, and so this one has been a long time supporter,

26:58

and I've been saying his name wrong Stop. This time. And,

27:03

last month, someone came up to me.

27:05

I won't name names, but they said they have it on good authority

27:10

that this is pronounced, blizzabler.

27:15

Bliss Abler. Abler. Liz Abler. Like Abler?

27:18

Nope. Not Abler. Abler. Bliz

27:22

Abler. No. Yep. I have it on good authority. Fake news. I won't say who told me that, but that's that's what it is. Fake news.

27:30

Bikes and Bitcoin. Love them.

27:33

Boris? Where's he at? My man. Thank you. Nice. Can't stop, won't stop, Bitax party.

27:39

Love it. Bitax wanna just want

27:42

We mess this up every every time. Bid ax wanna be just an s 17 pro. That's a constant. I love that guy too. I think I'd have that memorized.

27:50

How long has blizz Abler been doing this? For, like, every single time? Since, like, our first episode.

27:56

Us just an s 17 pro. I think our first episode. Yeah. Wow. Like since we've, like, been here. Boris, honestly, not the first episode, but he's been, doing it for a while. Tried and true. Tried and true. Yes. Thanks, Chad. Yeah. Thanks everybody.

28:11

Give our hashers a round of applause. Don't be shy. Yeah.

28:16

Hey, you gotta start somewhere to get the one x of hash. Right? That's right.

28:21

Am I right? You're right. You're not wrong. Almost there.

28:25

So how much okay. So here's the next question and I'm actually curious from the audience's participation on just this one.

28:32

By show of hands, if we did have 1 x of hash,

28:38

we by raise your hand if you would point it to a solo pool pool

28:43

for that day. Y'all are fucking crazy. Okay? I love it.

28:50

Now who would point to Like an FPV. Full pay per share. Pay per share. FPPS.

28:58

Come on. It's okay. Yeah. My man over here. 1?

29:01

1? 2nd? So the problem and and, Joe, maybe on the accounting side, if we got all this hash rate and we went solo mining and we missed all the blocks, is that technically a donation?

29:12

No. Then we get invoiced for the That's what I'm saying.

29:15

Yeah. For the electricity? It's like when, you know those like football games at the halftime

29:20

where the the family wins the car but they can't afford the taxes on the car? Oh, bummer. So they have to like sell it? Yeah. And then they basically break even? Wow. That sucks.

29:31

That's like gonna be us, but we're gonna be working the corner. No, I don't think it works like that because those people are in a 501c3

29:37

and we are. I don't know. Or I'm very nervous about,

29:43

us missing. All that because I wanna participate in the You see that guy? Yeah. He's got He's got it. He's got us covered.

29:50

He's got glasses. He's got a nice hat. You just do the wheeling and dealing and he'll clean up all the mess.

29:58

No. I mean, I will say,

30:01

I wanna participate. I wanna enjoy the telehash.

30:04

If we get 1 x of hash and we're mining

30:08

on a solo pool, I will be turning this chair around.

30:12

My mempool will be up here and all I'll be doing is staring at this damn mempool like a horse race.

30:18

I'll be like, come on. Come on, Seth. Come on.

30:22

I that's fine. I I need a little more than 1 exahash. You're gonna have to get busy, right, you gotta drum up more. I know. Did we do the numbers,

30:32

on this? Like 10 exahash. 10 exahash. No problem.

30:36

We just talked to your friends. Yeah. So wait. Hold on. If we what what what what's the probability of us mining a block,

30:43

in one day with, 1 exahash? Didn't we do this math? I don't remember. Yeah. You'd have to look at like We've got a new difficulty at solarchance.com. Yeah. That's right. So we looked up on solarchance.com.

30:55

Alright. I mean, if there's no liability,

30:58

especially monetary from us,

31:01

then fuck it. Let's roll. We gotta have, like, the balloons all up, like, ready to die. A 100%.

31:06

Yes. You guys want balloon okay. Done. Balloons are happening. We'll have the balloons all lit up, and they'll fall down when we when we nail blocks. Yeah. I mean, what if we nailed multiple blocks? That's fine. That'll work. We'll just get more balloons. More balloons. Like, light them up. Let's go.

31:23

People in the corner blowing out the balloons. More balloons.

31:26

Oh, cut that out, please. It's 1 every 5 days.

31:31

1 every 1 x dash is 1 every 5 days. So if we go to 10, it's like So we'd have a 20% chance if we did it for 24 hours?

31:40

So so you need 5 x of hash Yeah. To be, at 24 hours. But we need 10 to be safe, 1 out of 2. Aim above the mark Yeah. To hit the mark. Okay.

31:51

I know I'm older than you. Yeah. It sounds pretty irresponsible. Okay. I'm in. I like irresponsible.

31:55

Right. It's a deal. I like it. I'm in. Words for the sake.

31:59

No. No. No. Now I'm in. Now I'm in. Alright.

32:03

Alright. That's awesome. Alright. Tallahasch, January 29th.

32:07

Shall we get to the state of the network before we cover a couple of news topics? Yeah. Sure. I forgot to plug the block height in, so I have no idea where we're at. Can someone look up on the mempool real quick? What's what block height are we at? Jesse,

32:18

lightning's dead, but can you show us where we are in the mempool space?

32:23

The the actual blockchain? Okay. Thank you. 868-903.

32:28

We are at 868-903. 3. Confirmed.

32:32

Don't trust verify. Yeah. We got another node on the network that can

32:36

anyways, according to our friends at newhedge.io,

32:41

Bitcoin difficulties Wow. Now 101.6

32:45

trillion as of today. That's crazy. Yeah. That difficulty adjustment just happened like an hour ago.

32:52

Did it go up or down? It went up about 6%.

32:56

Like, 6.2, 6.3%. Unplug your machines, guys. What's going on? Yeah.

33:03

They're like, Bitcoin price kind of flat. See, it's weird because, like, you guys Just plug them in. Companies that we're gonna talk about this, but, like, some jumping ahead a little bit, but, like, Core Scientific Yeah. Unplugging miners to plug in AI servers Yep. Yet hash rate is still

33:19

increasing. Like, what's going on here?

33:22

I don't know. Maybe nation states are getting involved. You know, your boys down in Argentina. Central Bank of Argentina. Yeah. Anyone see the the news in Argentina?

33:30

It's funny. I I sent this text out I sent this text to,

33:35

Iko. I'm like, hey, man. This is really interesting. We'll add it to the show notes.

33:38

He had some choice words. And,

33:42

You can say it. He's just like, fuck Argentina.

33:45

I was like, why? And you're like so supposedly, they stole those miners that are in the, museum

33:52

actually? So I Rod sent me that link that

33:56

which was a a photo of the Central Bank of Argentina's

34:00

lobby Yeah. With the miners set up in the lobby on display. Kinda set up. They were unplugged? They were unplugged. Well, just yeah. On display. Just Yeah. Yeah. Not like Not running. Mine. Yeah.

34:11

And so the the

34:14

person who posted that picture seemed to think that the central bank was actively mining.

34:20

But it's not clear whether or not

34:24

they have a mining operation that is functional

34:27

and, like, just not in their lobby. And then they just have these miners on display in their lobby.

34:33

One thing's for sure. The miners on display in their lobby are not hashing.

34:37

Yeah. There's like a dozen s nines Yeah. Unplugged.

34:41

With the power supply set up to, like, completely block the fan.

34:45

It was a very interesting orientation.

34:51

Argentina style. Yeah. So how do you mind Argentina style? That's right.

34:57

We like to Nice and quiet and cool that way. No one's no one's Right. Bothered.

35:01

It's good. So anyways, I fired back with the link to an article from 2022

35:06

when Argentina was, like, kicking in their citizens' doors and stealing minors

35:11

from them. But is it well, that was a previous regime, though. So yeah. I I reflected on my comments after some time and realized that there's been quite the political change in Argentina since then.

35:22

And I'm not sure what their tax authority status is on

35:27

stealing private property from people,

35:30

but to be determined, I suppose. Totally.

35:34

I don't know. I mean, especially with these the hash prices

35:37

the hash price right now with the current Bitcoin price and the hash rate,

35:43

be on grid over 6¢ or 7¢ cost per kilowatt,

35:47

I don't think you're profitable. Right? Uh-huh. And so Well, who knows what they're paying in Argentina? I mean, they Yeah. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying, like so maybe they're getting way lower,

35:57

cost per kilowatt or they got the new new new gen machines that you got, like, you're a big pubco miner, you can leverage your balance sheet, you can leverage the debt markets, and just go ham on new machines and then just flood the market

36:09

or flood, the overall hash rate with these new gen machines. I mean, if I recall correctly, what's that The the president of Argentina, Mille? Yeah. Wasn't he pro Bitcoin? Oh, yeah. Okay. More pro Freedom tech, but, like, yeah. And Bitcoin just being a tool of it. But not so much that he was gonna abolish the central bank in Argentina?

36:28

I thought yeah. I thought he was saying something along those lines. Yeah. But now they've

36:33

instead of abolishing the central bank, now he's, like, just put s nines on display in their lobby. I see. Like, the it should be closed for business. Right? Like, there should be no lobby to everything.

36:44

Actually, I thought this place was supposed to be closed.

36:49

So okay. Funny enough. Yeah. We can move on.

36:54

You're gonna be buying machines in this market over at Kaboom Racks?

36:58

Yeah. So they're selling s 21 pros, 270

37:01

Terahash models for

37:05

$6860. $24

37:10

of Tera Hash. You buying? I wish I was buying these. I bought stupid s nineteens, like, at $85

37:17

of Tera Hash. Hell, yeah. You and me both, brother.

37:21

Oof. Can I get a double oof on that one?

37:24

So Who else by show of hands, who actually actively mines, Bitcoin in this room?

37:29

Nice. Lightning.

37:32

The b p. BitX. Yeah. That's not a x. Do. That counts. That counts 100%. Anyone mine at home?

37:39

Bitax? Yeah. Okay. Good. Good. Awesome. Got an Apollo running at home. That's awesome.

37:43

The, the latest Bitax, the gamma, the one that's running over there. Yeah. The only way to get those chips that's in there is to buy one of these s 21 pros

37:53

for $68100. And literally, don't even plug it in. Brand new machine. Take it apart. Unsutter all the chips.

38:01

So So you're saying the resale value on the thing that's plugged in my property right now is pretty nice? Okay. Thank you. Yeah. You can I mean, you can definitely sell I think there's,

38:14

there's, like, almost 200 chips in there? Right? You can certainly sell 200 bit access for more than this,

38:20

for more than 68 100 bucks. $800. So It's like drug dealers chopping up their For distribution. Yeah. Distribution. Yeah. Like a yeah. Okay. Smart. Actually a good analogy.

38:30

Yeah. You're the BitX drug dealer.

38:32

I don't do it. I don't make them. Just for the record.

38:37

You're just the guy that sits above the empire? Yeah. And, like, all your, all your guys on your corners work together? I don't know. I don't know any of them. I don't know how it works. I know.

38:46

That's by design though, actually. You don't wanna be at the center of that. The heck no.

38:52

Are you buying these machines? No.

38:56

Uh-uh. Dude, we I don't have anywhere to plug them in yet. But if we did, I honestly I think the $2, 1 dollar,

39:01

$3 price for Terahash s nineteens

39:05

Well, I mean, I guess it depends on your energy costs.

39:09

Yeah. I mean, if you're getting energy costs at, like, 1, 2¢ cost per kilowatt. I don't know, dude. It's such a

39:15

there's so many variables that go into it.

39:18

True. You gotta be, doing something pretty cool for 1 to 2¢ a kilowatt.

39:24

Or less. Or less. Because like Out of the box for that. Let's say you're

39:30

you you go with the s 19. Right? Like, who's to say that

39:35

the hash rate doesn't double in the next

39:37

6 to 12 months? You know? And then what are you gonna do? Like, now your machines aren't really earning you much of anything. Mhmm.

39:45

So I don't know. It's a toss-up.

39:48

One thing I know for sure is if you don't have a place to immediately plug that money,

39:54

do not spend the money on it. That's 1. Good pro tip. 2.

39:59

Don't burn down your power lines. 3.

40:03

That's a good number 2. What about number 3? How about how about Start small. When you go to your friend's house to do your friend a favor Oh, god. Proactively

40:12

I'm sorry. Which is very kind of you to do.

40:17

Don't listen to your other friend to say, hey, let's use that vacuum

40:21

to clean out something and then plug it into a 2 40 volt outlet that says do not use. Yeah. My bad. Well, here's

40:30

how about you don't take an outlet that's

40:35

the the specifications for a 120 volt and then have your electrician

40:40

wired up for 240 volt.

40:43

So when someone else comes along, they look at it and see a 120 volt outlet and plug a 120 volt vacuum into a 240 volt

40:51

plug and then burn up your vacuum and then feel like shit on the inside because you were trying to do your friend a favor and then you ruined his vacuum.

41:00

I was like, was that the Dyson? He's like, yeah. I was like, shit.

41:04

I was like Sorry. Expensive vacuum.

41:07

The writing on that on said outlet was very faint. But what did it say?

41:12

Like, after close inspection after the fact, we realized it said do not use.

41:17

No. It's Yeah. It said 240 v do not use. And I was like, oh, that's what that now I get it. Now I'm like,

41:26

do not use. So I had some air filters in the back house where Scott is staying at my house, and they were kind enough to change them out and then wanted to do some extra cleanup. Yeah. The the grill for, like, the filters is all full of dust bunnies. So we were gonna vacuum them out. And so we're in the garage, we got the grill, we got the vacuum and we're like, oh, we just need an outlet. And I'm like, oh, here's one. Let's use this. And I Which I custom it clearly looks like a 110 volt power outlet. Yeah. It's it's a 100th anyone who's plugged in miners knows

41:56

the 240 volt outlets have the

42:00

the slot sideways. Yeah. So you cannot plug

42:04

a 120 volt accessory into them. This was just a regular old

42:09

120 volt outlet. But

42:12

on the inside, it had leg 1 and leg 2 on it instead of leg 1 in neutral. So

42:19

I plugged that vacuum in, and then, like, we're trying to vacuum, and it's just like.

42:25

This vacuum smells like a burnt motor. What's going on here?

42:29

And I'm sorry, but we ruined your vacuum.

42:33

I owe you one. I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed.

42:37

I'm just that's that's even worse. Just joking.

42:40

All good. Thank you for changing the air filters. Thanks, Sue, for all your help.

42:43

I know what I'm getting you for your birthday. Actually, we had another vac we're we're all good.

42:50

A Sats card with Bitcoin would be just fine. Okay. Thank you.

42:53

Alright. What about over at mempool.space? Mempool.space.

42:59

Hash rate is up to 730

43:03

x hash on the 14 day moving average.

43:06

Just shy of my one zeta hash prediction by tomorrow. Alright. When are we gonna get 2 ones at a hash then? I mean Real talk. Let let's wait till Wednesday.

43:15

Tomorrow tomorrow's Tuesday, which is the election. Yep. Wednesday is 6th, the day after. So we'll have a better idea

43:21

about whether the administration that'll be going into the White House is gonna be aggressive toward

43:28

Bitcoin or supportive of Bitcoin. Okay. And if

43:32

Trump wins and the administration is supportive toward Bitcoin,

43:36

then I would be more bullish on that hash rate growth.

43:39

Whereas if the Harris administration gets in, you know, the Biden Harris administration has already been very aggressive against

43:47

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general.

43:50

And I don't see that getting any better if they

43:55

win the election. I see it getting much worse,

43:58

you know. So a few examples recently, they've arrested

44:02

indicted open source developers

44:05

of the samurai wallet project. No cease and desist warning just went straight for indictment.

44:12

They seized their servers. There's been a chilling effect because of that,

44:18

where projects like Phoenix

44:21

have pulled out of the US market.

44:23

Async pulled out of the US market. Did they come back or no? I don't think so. If they did, I haven't heard about it. Okay.

44:32

You know, other open source developers have been

44:36

arrested previously, like the Tornado Cash developers.

44:41

And then somebody was wrongfully charged and

44:47

convicted in the Bitcoin FOG case, Roman Sterlingoff.

44:52

And in that case,

44:55

the evidence used against him was this pseudoscience

44:58

black box bullshit that Chainalysis

45:01

had produced that didn't even meet the Daubert standards.

45:04

Yet they cited some national security concerns

45:07

about being able to prove anything like known error rates

45:13

or how it works under the hood or having any other like counter experts look into it. So they cited national security concerns

45:22

and and got this evidence entered against Roman Sterling off. And and he ended up getting convicted. And the defense wasn't able to mount any sort of any sort of defense against that because they weren't able to have their own experts look into it. So

45:39

that sort of lawfare is going to get worse, in my opinion, if the Harris administration

45:47

takes the White House. So

45:50

if that's the case and a number of other fronts that I think they could attack,

45:55

I think I think it would be bearish for Bitcoin in general.

46:00

Have we heard any, like, updates about, like, what percentage of the network cash rate is in the US?

46:07

Yeah. Because I was thinking, I was like, it'd probably be bearish for the folks here in the US, but

46:12

probably super bullish for every other jurisdiction. Yeah. Because we're gonna have, like, China 2.0 happen

46:18

in terms of, like, hash rate migration.

46:21

Yeah. They're gonna be like, oh, yeah. It's legal again. Let's just do this. Probably. Yeah. Yeah. Something like that.

46:26

By the way, mempooled that space. What was the whole whole kerfuffle,

46:31

around, Oh, yeah.

46:34

So there was a, like, long

46:37

tweet article. I would say thread, but you don't have to do threads anymore on Twitter. It's like just one post, just one wall of text.

46:48

I'm not bitter. One of the guys from OSHA I don't know if it was their engineer or the attorney.

46:56

Well, one of the guys, like, put this long article out saying that he thinks mempool

47:02

is shit coining now, because

47:05

it was displaying something to do with, like, the inscriptions

47:09

on the block explorer. So for anyone who doesn't know, which I think you all do,

47:14

mempool is a block explorer. You can go on there and look up all sorts of information about the Bitcoin network.

47:21

And I'm I'm a little confused

47:23

about what the issue was exactly

47:35

coiner. But I I never saw

47:38

and maybe anyone who does know can correct me, but I never saw on mempool

47:43

where you could go in and, like, generate the actual inscription

47:47

image and, like, look at the inscription. Now they did have

47:51

they have a number of filters and tags

47:54

that you can use on their website to, like, look at

47:57

transactions and blocks, and it'll tell you, like,

48:01

it'll show you little flags. Like, this is a multi sig transaction or this is a child pays for parent or this is a replace by feed. And one of the tags they have is, like, inscription. It'll say this transaction contains an inscription. But I couldn't find any way to, like, display the inscription. So I don't understand,

48:19

like, was was the guy from Ocean just saying that

48:22

because mempool is displaying the inscription tag that mempool is a shitcoiner?

48:29

It seems like a pretty ridiculous stretch to me. But I wouldn't put it past these guys who are, like, so hardcore purists about,

48:39

what they agree to have stored on their nodes. Exactly. I think there's some preference around what is stored on your node and then what you're displaying and, and Mempool

48:49

saying here, here's what's displayed on the blockchain. So we're just displaying what's on the blockchain as the block explorer. Right. Yeah. But I mean, like, Luke Dash Jr. Made some

48:58

ridiculous comment, ridiculous in my opinion, that like,

49:02

that inscriptions are not on Bitcoin.

49:05

But like, if they weren't, then like, why are they in the block explorer? Like, it's it's and if if they weren't on Bitcoin, then why does he have an issue Yeah. With them being on his node?

49:15

Right? So clearly, they are in big so he's contradicting himself.

49:20

I don't know. I don't I don't know if anyone in the audience

49:23

can explain that better, but I found the whole situation

49:26

very confusing, because I can't I can't see how mempool is a shitcoiner Yeah. By any stretch of the To a 100% agree.

49:36

We'll get through these next 2 and then,

49:39

go through the lot. So our special guest, we had a little bit of technical difficulties and I don't know if we're gonna actually do a video go forward, but, John Stephanopoulos really wanted to join us and we really wanted to have him on to talk through,

49:52

the the top to bottom solving a block. Yeah. We'll go through the next two bullets and then, get to that as well, which is very, very cool.

50:03

Where are these? Insights dot brains?

50:05

Oh, we're still on the state of the network. Yeah. We Wow. Are, buddy. Okay. Gone through a couple tangents.

50:11

Hash value is 70,000 sats per petahash per day.

50:15

Hash price, $45 per petahash per day.

50:19

And the halving is due in 1,234

50:23

days Exactly. According to coin wars.com.

50:26

Dang. And in 86 days guess what's in 86 days? Who can guess? They get 1 Bitcoin from Scott.

50:35

Yes, Mike? Mine is here? No.

50:39

Close. One Bitcoin here. Seth Bayless, send him an address.

50:46

It's, the telehash is in 86 days, everybody.

50:49

I'll pay later. So we did cover the news and topics that we wanted to cover, which was the mempool

50:56

core site, making room for AI servers, Argentina displaying miners,

51:01

in their lobby. Do you maybe, Scott, do you wanna explain,

51:07

the historical significance of what happened last week,

51:12

with solving with the Apollo? Yeah. Yeah. This this was fantastic. So

51:17

a, a future bit Apollo miner,

51:20

hit a soul solo miner block, And that's pretty cool in itself, but this was

51:25

with some new software available on the Apollo miner where you can actually,

51:31

mine to your own node. And so this block was solved by a miner running their own node and mining on that same machine directly to that node. So we call it like a a top to bottom self sovereign mined block. Kelly. Yeah. And they weren't mine they weren't mining to a pool. There was no other third party involved. It was just like,

51:50

you know, according to John, we haven't had a block mind like this in since, like, 2013.

51:56

Right? Yeah. I mean, it's it's hard to know for sure. Those people don't tend to, like, announce what they're doing. But Yeah.

52:03

It's pretty impressive. Fully self sovereign, soul and mind block. Like there was no other

52:10

networks, no other machines, no other like

52:14

parties, like a part of that solving a block and submitting it and getting the block award. Yep. It's pretty badass.

52:21

Yeah. Now what do you think the,

52:24

probability do do you think this is a trend that continues to go forward?

52:29

Yeah. I do. I think it's gonna start happening more and more. I mean, we're we're trying to get the word out there that people can do this. I think actually previous to, like, this year, it was frowned upon to

52:39

run your own pool or mine to your own node. There was kind of a lot of FUD out there that like, oh, like you won't be able to compete. Don't bother. Don't try. Like, the latency will kill you.

52:50

Dude, all the same FUD they've been saying since like home mining Totally. Caught a revival in early 2021.

52:57

Like Yeah. It I think a lot of that comes from people who, like, run profitable pools and would much rather have you paying them Right. To do what you can do yourself.

53:06

So, yeah. I do think more people are starting to do it. It's getting easier to do. We have,

53:11

you know, Futurebid is doing it. We have packages for Umbrel,

53:15

Start9, that you can just point your miner right at it and, like, you know, this is making your own templates. Like, you choose what transactions go into this block. You broadcast it to the network. No one can stop you from doing that.

53:28

And it's just not that hard to do. And so streamlining the tools, yeah, I think more people will be doing it. Yeah.

53:34

So, Scott's not here, but we have a great, one of our members does a great 101, Bitcoin 101 once a month here at the park. So bitcoinpark.comforward/meetup,

53:44

join that. I think there's only, like, 15 spots for that. I wanna do even more workshops here. So I wanna bring John Stephanopoulos

53:51

or somebody from his team to actually go from top to bottom and demo the future bit and showcase

53:57

it with the big screen and, like, hands on type stuff.

54:01

I think the more hands on stuff we do here, whether it's with the bid acts and others,

54:06

goes a long way. And I think it always starts with mining, oddly. Once the people get mining and how to run a full, their own node and then send a transact, then it's like game on.

54:17

Yeah. I mean, there's there's a lot of interesting aspects to it. Right? If you're just interested in in Bitcoin,

54:22

like you can do this. No one can stop you. No one's in control of it. And it's this interesting lottery

54:28

game that people are winning. And especially when the barrier to entry

54:33

has gotten so much lower with

54:36

creations like the BitX and Apollo. Like

54:39

when I started doing this, I had to put an industrial grade

54:43

machine that was screaming at 90 decibels in the same

54:47

living space my wife and kids were occupying.

54:50

Not now, honey. Like, yeah. It's connect the the network.

54:55

The miners the miners today have got it a lot easier, so

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take advantage. You guys. You kidding. Your marriage isn't such.

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Me over here. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. I almost

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burnt my house down with my wife inside it. Yeah.

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And your house. Yes. That's what I said twice. Yeah. Sorry. It's all good.

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One of, we'll wrap with Home Owner,

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the the the month now that week. Yep. Although,

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you know, we we like the flip flop here at hot d v six. We flip and we flop a lot. We may flip flop one more time.

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Who wants to hear more of Scott? Because Scott's a legend. I think we wanna hear more of Scott. Right?

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I think Scott, you take on the weekly, pod 56,

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mantle. Do some interviews with some folks, do John's John next week, get a lot of other great folks,

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maybe folks from Block and others come on the pod. And then we'll wrap when you fly back in, we'll wrap do this, like, kind of monthly wrap up, I think it's a it's a pretty rad way. Sounds good to me. Okay. Good. Paul, are you gonna produce these shows? I'm in. Thank you. Yeah. Let's go. Let's do that. Gonna be cool. Now they're gonna be they're

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gonna what does Trump say? Like Huge. Huge. They're gonna be huge. Huge. They're gonna be huge.

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Alright. Speaking of huge, really proud of Neil Ronan Miner.

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Yep. He launched a really cool, hydro mod kit this week. Yep. Scott, you wanna explain a little bit about it?

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Yeah. He's got a, a hydro,

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a kit, like an adapter kit for a bit axe to make it hydro cool. Like, he's got this water block. He has an ingenious way to mount a water block

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cooler to your Bittaxe. And there's, like, a little, like, aquarium pump and a radiator and a reservoir tank. And it's just, like, this cool cool The little is really cool as well. It's, like, this big,

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to have a water cooled Bittaxe. And he's making them. He, like, found all the parts. It's really good. Cryptoclokes, I believe, are are teaming up too. Yeah. I think cryptoclokes is gonna make a enclosure for it. I don't know. When I saw that, I'm like, yes. Sold. I want one of those right away. Hell yeah. So rad. Heck. You know, it's, like, nice and cool just kinda sitting there humming. I think that'll be really neat. Heck yeah.

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That's what it's all about. Just make this cool stuff. Make cool shit. Right. No one could stop you.

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That's awesome. Gentlemen, this was awesome.

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I think we wrapped. Yeah. Sorry about the vacuum.

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I wouldn't be as mad and I'm not even even remotely mad. When when I got the text okay. So I'm like, hey, guys. We're grilling out at the park. Just you guys come straight to the park when we're done.

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And then I get when I get these long texts from Meeko, I'm like, man, he he always puts a lot of thought into it. Starts with

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good news, one line. Bad news, another line. And then terrible news.

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And then it was like the show more button.

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That's why I had to show more. And then this whole long thing

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explanation of good news, we changed your air filter. Bad news, we couldn't find the water filter filter.

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And the terrible news is, I smoked your vacuum. I smoked your vacuum.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I hope you've had that extended warranty.

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No. That was for my wedding. So probably I need to change that back. That vacuum was a wedding gift? I'm pretty sure. Wow. Man.

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Well It still kinda works. It just smells really bad. I can go home to that. Yeah.

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We'll we'll end the show with in memoriam.

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Yeah. Yes. Ride the dice and vacuum.

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Seriously, guys, thanks for, joining us tonight. That was awesome.