I’ve got an “enterprise” connection; I pestered them about it and they’re insistent that they only do static IPv6. All their IPv4 is CGNAT, even on the business side.

I want to specifically avoid services like DDNS and Cloudflare (especially Cloudflare); current plan is a tiny VPS somewhere I don’t hate acting as an IPv4 gateway.

The more I read about anything post-v29 the more I think anyone running serious nodes won’t be updating past 29 for years / until we see the nerd drama is over. Too many tween schoolgirl hormones flying around to bet the stack required to run a node.

A bit of a rabbit trail, but wow, 21% tax on rentals? Is anything else taxed like that, or just accommodations?

I mostly agree, but at this point it’d be like showing a crack addict a clean house and saying “isn’t this better?” They’ll either leave or bring it with them.

Maybe I’m just blackpilled on saving people…

But do we want them here? I’m torn. I’d love to onboard my extended family but I see what they post and engage with and sometimes think it’s better to leave them in the trad SM mental asylum than bring them and their troubles here 🫤

“It’s complicated” is the cop-out answer, but it’s also true.

I’m currently working for an industrial-scale Bitcoin mining company, and their ROI is closer to 3%. But they’re at a scale where 3% is still looooots of money. My home mining is -infinity%, but I do it mostly for the learning experience. I’ve seen larger home miners make enough to pay their homestead’s utility costs by getting solar panels and batteries for free and old miners for cheap.

From what I’m seeing the key is the same as any other business: keep costs low. Buying $10k miners and building a $1m facility to house them doesn’t pay. $0 solar panels and $200 miners might.