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Bitcoin mining @theminingpod; building blockspace
Feb 2, 2022 11 tweets 3 min read
There’s a HUGE lawsuit underway at @ConsenSys no one is talking about. An it reads like a National Enquirer piece 🧵

1/10 @KavitaGupta19 was a general partner at ConsenSys alongside @ethereumJoseph. She managed a fund from $13.5 million to over $300 million from 2017 to 2019, until she resigned to teach at Stanford.

2/10
Nov 4, 2021 8 tweets 4 min read
The Navajo Nation are mining #Bitcoin

And we're lucky enough to share the story first:
📺 The Navajo and the US have a complicated, one-sided history.

In 1868, the Navajo agreed to live under US rule. The results speak for themselves 👇

-48% average unemployment
-30% live without basic utilities
- 30% live below the poverty line
Jul 9, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
So this dropped on Github yesterday and you may be wondering what it is.

*Pomp brother voice*
Here's a thread ⛏️

github.com/fxfactorial/me… Miner Extractable Value (MEV) describes any value miners (or traders) squeeze out of sequencing transactions.

Typically its done on the in-coming block. A miner, say @ethermine_org can choose how to sequence the block if they find the nonce.
Mar 6, 2020 27 tweets 11 min read
I'll be live tweeting this morning's Ethereum AllCoreDevs call on ProgPoW, a controversial mining algo update which has made its way around the eth dev carousel a few times.

Read @BradyDale's recent explainer to catch up!
coindesk.com/ethereums-prog… the first hour is on eth2.0 BLS signatures under EIP 1962. Will get to ProgPoW in about an hour.

Repping the pro-ProgPoW side is @OhGodAGirl and @BitsBeTrippin

Anti is repped by @koeppelmann and @mhluongo with @BenDiFrancesco proposing a middle ground