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5 Jul, 7 tweets, 4 min read
1/ time for my monthly #Bitcoin mining update, apologies for skipping June

i'm 151 days into my @compass_mining experiment, and i've mined 0.09 bitcoin

🧮 let's whip out the calculator and do some basic math
2/ i bought my rig and hosting service from Compass - i sent them $, they did everything else

i chose @f2pool_official as my pool - i see my daily payouts and hash power on a nice little dedicated dashboard and download the CSV file to assemble this lil' report
3/ BTC mined - in the last week alone, bitcoin mined per day has gone up 45% thanks to the drop in difficulty

BTC price has dropped by ~45%, effectively keeping dollar ROI flat from May 5 to now 🦥

BUT rn mining 72% more BTC per day than i was in february when i started
4/ opex - my miner uses ~3.25 kw / hr so opex is pretty minimal

carbon offset for all u ESG warriors, i use the @EPA calculator but we'll be rolling out our own @CoinSharesCo calculator soon ⌨️ so all u nerds can roll your own ESG strat however u like
5/ now lots of u will ask me a basic question - why not just buy bitcoin instead of buying an ASIC?

i present to you... owning a production asset v owning a financial asset (i'm at month 5)

i denominate in bitcoin, not USD. mining helps me accumulate more bitcoin.
6/ full disclosure - i'm an investor in @compass_mining via @CoinSharesCo and my personal holding company, i'm a board director, and i'm a paying customer

if you'd like to check out compass, use this link for exceptional service: compassmining.io/?transaction_i…
7/ if u have detailed questions on any of this - prior threads walk through everything in excruciating detail or feel free to DM / respond and i'll link the answer

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30 Jun
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30 Jun
1/ house hearing on cryptocurrencies



brad sherman just stated he believes it is more beneficial to society that people play the California lottery than invest in cryptocurrencies, ladies and gentlemen this is your elected representative
2/ now on to witness testimonies - Eva Su from the Congressional Research Service reminding everyone that bitcoin and ethereum are *not* securities, good start

she's focusing on securities regulation and potential changes to securities laws
3/ ok next witness @alexisgoldstein

kicking off with archegos capital and form 13-F issues and then extrapolating to crypto - this is nonsensical since exposure today is on-chain and fully collateralized?

she claims "dire risks" from forced liquidations in crypto (how?)
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20 Jun
1/ the #Bitcoin network is a complex, dynamic ecosytem, and the latest changes to the distribution of the network are interesting, but not unpredecented

let's look at the data - here is how market share has evolved over the last three months
2/ total hash rate on the network fluctuates in response to a number of factors including the cost and availability of ASICs (capex), the cost and availability of power (opex), and the price of bitcoin

looking at the last six months, we've seen a lot of volatility in global hash
3/ the size and rate of this decrease is consistent with other previous drops. migratory mining has been a trend for the last 3-4 years!

long-term, hash rate will respond to these variables and seek jurisdictions where there is clear, consistent policy and ample renewable energy
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14 Jun
1/ paul tudor jones suggests a 5% allocation to #bitcoin as an effective portfolio diversifier

our team @CoinSharesCo did the research, and our recommendation? 4%

why?

let's delve into portfolio construction and the numbers - see the full report here coinshares.com/research/a-lit…
2/ over the last 18 months, bitcoin has been increasingly financialized as an asset

our weekly digital asset fund flows report shows AUM in crypto products is nearly $50B, a sharp increase from $5B a year ago when PTJ first talked about bitcoin 😎

medium.com/coinshares/vol… Image
3/ behavioral analysis of bitcoin holders also shows that investors holding bitcoin longer than a year has risen from ~30% in 2012 to ~55% today

in 2020 alone, ~22% of all bitcoin in existence were moved off exchanges (presumably into LT custody + ETPs) Image
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8 Jun
1/ there is now over $100B of dollars on-chain

there are seven stablecoins with >$1B in market cap

while market cap is an important metric, there are a few other insights we can glean from looking at velocity and collateralization rates

a short thread 👇 on crypto dollars
2/ velocity is the rate at which money is exchanged in a financial system

high velocity money tends to be associated with more developed systems

$USDT is HIGH velocity with one tether changing hands more than 1.5x per day

the USDT/BTC trade pair is *BY FAR* the highest volume
3/ some stablecoins have virtually no velocity, meaning once issued, their use as a medium for exchange is very limited

notably UST (trueUSD) and TUSD (terra USD) are the lowest velocity - this will be an interesting area to explore further
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28 May
1/ excited to launch the Pleb Mining Council

individuals have always been the backbone of the bitcoin network

the bitcoin network has 150,000 petahashes of compute.

0.15% of global hash rate, or ~220 PH, is run by plebs. help us take it to 5%!

compassmining.io/education/pleb Image
2/ our relationship w/ @compass_mining is driven by getting more individuals into mining bitcoin, and distributing global hash rate more broadly

we thought it would be fun, educational, and timely to create a Pleb Mining Council to help drive this effort

POWER TO THE PLEBS!
3/ since starting my self-mining experiment w Compass a few months ago, *so* many of you have reached out to me about your desire to learn more about mining

see my experience below, month 4 update coming shortly 👇

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