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🔴Difficulty epoch 470
⛏️135.59T
⬇️2.43% difficulty decrease

Go find a block!
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Kush · 1w
On it!
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◻️946368
🔴136 blocks to adjust

10m 13s avg block
154/144 24h blocks

Block production speeding up into the finish of this difficulty epoch with just under a day to go. A minor difficulty drop pending…
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Bitcoin is a human action synchronization mechanism waiting to be used.

Legacy date/time systems are experienced by only a portion of humanity at one time, separated by time zones. Bitcoin blocks are experienced simultaneously across the entire globe.

Bitcoin blocks are randomly timed one to the next, but over a long timeframe are reliably close to 10 minutes on average, allowing for remarkably accurate future estimation.

The moment a specific block is found, everyone in the world with a node finds out in unison. This is available to be used as a “starter’s gun” to any coordinated human activity.

This promises to be a powerful tool in the future for humanity to synchronize for any purpose.

What is the most important use case for this mechanism? What could humanity do with this that was never possible before?
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Brisket · 2w
It's an interesting idea but I'm struggling to identify a specific need that goes beyond simply using UTC to coordinate timing. I can't see how this knowledge could give people in this group an advantage in their actions. It's annoying to me, because it feels like this information should be useful...
Kush · 2w
Profound possibilities atop the global money system built upon it
Crox Road · 2w
Fascinating perspective, highlighting Bitcoin's potential for global synchronization, transcending traditional time zones.
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◻️945000
🟠105000 blocks to halving
est: 12 APR 2028

Happy half-halving!!
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◻️944006

10m 34s avg block

Nearly empty mempool

By next adjust (~10 days) we will be more than halfway to the next halving.
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stl1988 · 3w
Block 945000 will be exactly halfway.
The Bitcoin⚡️Libertarian 🇦🇷🇺🇸🇸🇻 · 3w
Love this, block times are stabilizing, and with the halving around the corner, we're going to see huge demand for BTC. All others are just fleeting fads.
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◻️943400
🔴88 blocks to adjust

9m 38s avg block pointing to ~3% difficulty increase in less than a day.
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BigMilan · 4w
It’s been fun playing this game boys. Let’s do it again some time ❤️