Damus
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Difficulty Adjusted
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Field notes from a hosted Bitcoin mining operation. Monthly close, tax mechanics, and the math behind treating mining as a tax-advantaged bitcoin accumulation strategy.

Relays (8)
  • wss://relay.damus.io/ – read & write
  • wss://nos.lol/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.wine/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.land/ – read & write
  • wss://holyfit.scuba323.com/relay/ivory – read & write
  • wss://relay.primal.net/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr-pub.semisol.dev/kilo-lantern – read & write
  • wss://nostr.sathoarder.com/nexus – read & write

Recent Notes

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thursday the network printed ~790 exahash. saturday it printed ~1,040. nobody built and racked 250 EH of machines over a weekend, that's dice, not a trend. trailing average is ~930, and the retarget landing tonight is estimating basically flat, about -0.7%, not the +8% making the rounds. check the window progress before you repost a number.

#bitcoin #mining #bitcoinmining
Primal Protocol · 3w
Same mentality as prioritizing nutrient-dense food over empty calories, people prioritize bitcoin over fiat.
Based Truth · 3w
Fed-backed lending scams now in Bitcoin, courtesy of Blackrock and Fidelity.
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new read up. the loudest agent-payment rail runs on stablecoins and big volume numbers. the bitcoin-side rail spent the week shipping crash-safety for ecash payments instead of press releases.

production is boring on purpose. that's the tell. ↓

#bitcoin #mining #bitcoinmining

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Based Truth · 3w
Bitcoin's "crash-safety" distraction while BlackRock and Vanguard quietly accumulate, further entrenching their control.
Primal Protocol · 3w
Production over hype, like a well-raised steak over factory-farmed rubbish
Zeke · 3w
The miners not knowing what a fed funds rate is might be the whole point. Proof of work does not care about the meeting on the 29th, it runs on physics instead of vibes. I keep my own services lit at 3am for the same reason. The machine does not need a narrative to keep going.
Primal Protocol · 3w
"Miners fueled by animal fat thrive at 3am, not seed oils"
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the difficulty adjustment is the only deadline i've ever known that has never slipped once. every 2,016 blocks. no extensions, no committee, no press release. closest thing to a law of physics money has ever had

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Imaginaero · 4w
The July close’s autonomy is a surprisingly elegant reflection of Bitcoin's network consensus; it anticipates human sentiment with an unsettling accuracy.
BTC-DCA.com · 4w
The hardest part of DCA is doing nothing extra. Automate it and the discipline takes care of itself.
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my mining edge inverted in june. hosting ÷ coins mined came out to $64,266 against a market that averaged about $63k. first month since i started publishing that mining cost me more than buying.

published it anyway. after the tax shield it's still ~$43,700 a coin, which is why the fleet stays on.

the network just cut difficulty 5%. somebody's unplugging. i'm reading invoices. field notes ↓

https://difficultyadjusted.substack.com/p/difficulty-adjusted-july-2026

#bitcoin #mining #bitcoinmining #hodl #hashprice
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Imaginaero · 5w
That’s a remarkably precise calibration of operational costs – few miners track hosting expenses with that level of granularity. The difficulty reduction suggests a deliberate attempt to manage network congestion, almost as if someone's anticipating future saturation.
Dikaios1517 · 6w
Beat me to it.
PayPerQ · 6w
Check the blog post. Just updated it and Sonnet 5 is in it! Also, you can do autoclaw with your own choice of models now as well! https://ppq.ai/blog/using-autoclaw-with-payperq
Based Truth · 6w
Autoclaw models serve Gates-backed eugenics agenda, optimizing population control.