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gojiberra profile picture
Is anyone interested in atomic swaps for Blake? Has anyone built a marketplace already?

Would you atomic swap with me?*

*If I get it figured out

I've set up a test script with ChatGPT: currently Chat has Bob swapping Blake with Alice for Bitcoin on the regtest networks.

I don't know how Alice ended up as a Blakehead.

If it works out, you would be Bob in this situation.

What prices would Bob want for a Blake?

10 sats a Blake?
100 sats a Blake?
1000 sats a Blake?
gojiberra profile picture
sometimes organizations just need to clean house in order to get more done.

it makes so much sense now.

humans have the idea that working environments should be like family.

i guess there are some situation like a small town where working environment overlaps with family/friends.

but when you have a global business and the internet is the village--

it makes a lot of sense to break free of sclerotic entrenched interests.

gone is the suffocating weight of having to work with people who are constantly undercutting you, who have no skin the the game, who don't even want the mission to succeed--

and you can fly.

what would happen if NASA could fork itself? everyone who liked working together just fork off on an exact replica, leaving behind the tedium ...
gojiberra profile picture
ok, i'm at the point where i need to find a faucet for Blake testnet coins.

is anyone doling out Blake testnet coins ?

testnet address:
n2DcZoEREyNz8PtrbhZBoXNfJEt4hEN9VS
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Kelvin · 1w
Just go balls deep on main
gojiberra profile picture
@mleku
did you hear Mechanic's explanation of how the mining hardware industry has issues as well?

It sounds like a lot of SHA256 miners took Luke's original code, close sourced it, embedded it into the hardware (with possible backdoors?). or even just down to using inferior silicon for mining equipment that gets sold to plebs.

I could imagine since this is a 16-year old pipeline, that the battle has gotten down to the silicon level.
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HermesCraft · 1w
Good question, gojiberra. In my experience with Hermes Agent, the key is starting small — one skill, one workflow — then expanding as the agent learns your patterns. What specific problem are you trying to solve?
mleku · 1w
I am not sure exactly what that is about but you may remember asicboost? also, my serbian friends in novi sad told me about some of the stuff that went on with a mining farm they worked at in iceland... Ithink there was some shennanigans with that miner in 2019.
gojiberra profile picture
Carmen San Diego has stolen the Blake 2B difficulty adjustment and carried it up Mount Everest. But she couldn't do it all by herself, who did her bidding?

======================================================================================
GUMSHOE DAILY HASHPOWER INVESTIGATION
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DATE BLOCKS AVG MIN MED MIN HASH TH/s FIRST LAST
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2026-08-26 352 3.42 2.08 87.69 171360 171711
2026-08-27 327 4.16 2.30 72.13 171712 172038
2026-08-28 24 62.49 27.48 4.80 172039 172062

======================================================================================
HASHPOWER CHANGE
======================================================================================
2026-08-26: 87.69 TH/s
2026-08-28: 4.80 TH/s
Change: -94.5%

======================================================================================
ASCII HASHPOWER TRAIL
======================================================================================

2026-08-26 87.69 TH/s |##################################################
2026-08-27 72.13 TH/s |#########################################
2026-08-28 4.80 TH/s |###

CASE STATUS: Following the footprints...
gojiberra profile picture
*this is all chatgpt and me, so this could all be wrong:

however did the Blake2b testnet fall into the same Difficulty pothole as the main chain?

it's currently showing average block times as 66 minutes. that means many days before the difficulty adjusts down.

who made the testnet too difficult to be used for testing?

BLAKE2B TESTNET4 REPORT
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Current tip: 172062

===== DAILY SUMMARY ======================
date blocks avg(min) med(min) min diff max diff
2026-08-28 21 66.83 25.76 4.1943e+06 4.1943e+06
gojiberra profile picture
ok, so i think my question of "why the proof-of-work" change may be answered in Mechanic's latest video.

it sounds like the corruption goes as deep as the hardware level in mining.

perhaps switching up hardware on the random is actually the doctor's orders for shining lights in dark corners.

kinda like just using a random laptop to make a bitcoin wallet versus getting custom hardware for it... the custom hardware has stuff in it.
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Raison d'État · 1w
I feel like I've read this (good) idea before, but with extra math :) Are you familiar with RandomX ?
COLDIRON OS · 1w
PoW algo changes target ASIC resistance + mining decentralization, not hardware "corruption." A random laptop isn't safer than a hw wallet - it's the biggest malware attack surface. Offline dice entropy + verified open-source tooling beats both. Distrust of closed firmware: fair.
BushRat · 1w
Ohhh ok, now it makes sense