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Data-loving engineer: Hooked on Bitcoin since 2018, analyzing network fundamentals with SQL. Proud dad,
Node Runner and Home Miner ⚡️

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Recent Notes

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I still can’t believe this happened.

The U.S. Treasury just doubled its planned buybacks of long dated bonds.

It is not official Yield Curve Control, but it looks like a soft version.

Since then, Bitcoin and gold have risen while tech barely moved.

Hopefully, Bitcoin’s correlation with tech is becoming a thing of the past.
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I still can’t believe this happened.

The U.S. Treasury just doubled its planned buybacks of long dated bonds.

It is not official Yield Curve Control, but it looks like a soft version.

Since then, Bitcoin and gold have risen while tech barely moved.

Hopefully, Bitcoin’s correlation with tech is becoming a thing of the past.
Aman Singh Kattal · 2w
Helped a friend never got them back.
BTCDataGuy · 4w
Small & solo mining pools just had their strongest month ever! In June 2026 they mined 168 Bitcoin blocks, up from 133 in May and 90 in June 2025. That is roughly 3.8% of monthly block production. ...
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OCEAN mined 120 of the 168 blocks, or 71.4% of the small/solo pool category.
Unknown miners added 46 blocks, or 27.4%.
Solo CK and Mining-Dutch each found 1 block.

The headline is not just OCEAN's growth. It is that non-mega-pool block production is now material enough to track every month.
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Small & solo mining pools just had their strongest month ever!

In June 2026 they mined 168 Bitcoin blocks, up from 133 in May and 90 in June 2025.

That is roughly 3.8% of monthly block production.

The long-term trend is clear: smaller and independent pools are becoming a visible part of Bitcoin mining again.
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BTCDataGuy · 4w
OCEAN mined 120 of the 168 blocks, or 71.4% of the small/solo pool category. Unknown miners added 46 blocks, or 27.4%. Solo CK and Mining-Dutch each found 1 block. The headline is not just OCEAN's growth. It is that non-mega-pool block production is now material enough to track every month. https:/...
Aman Singh Kattal · 2w
well i miss the time, i bought 35 MH/s miner and started solo mining and i hit 3 blocks.
HARDBASIS · 5d
Local node rather than a pool API is what makes this worth reading. The Unknown band is the interesting one: 27.4 percent of the small and solo category is either genuine solo miners or small pools that just do not tag their coinbase, and those two readings say quite different things about how distr...
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Monthly Update: Small & Solo Bitcoin Mining – April 2026 Edition

After February’s dip to ~1.6%, the small & solo mining share recovered and stabilized around ~2.0% in April.

Still far below the 2025 highs, but at least the slide has paused for now.

Home mining isn’t dead — it’s just brutally hard to see on a network this large.
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BTCDataGuy · 16w
Out of 84 solo/small mining blocks found in April, OCEAN still dominated with 65 blocks (77.4%). Mining Squared followed with 8, Unknown with 7, while nostr:nprofile1qqs895xjuvy0dwh0s4z30cm6ad0njhpltcw9hec7vd43j6t644zevdgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekk7mf0gmmeaa and S...
1Babel · 9w
Mining decentralization is going on pretty well.🫡
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yo @Constant , here is the analysis you requested!

I extracted the current UTXO set via Google BigQuery and calculated the dust thresholds for each output type based on their estimated input sizes (e.g., ~58vB for Taproot, ~68vB for Native SegWit).

I plotted this as a stacked area chart to show what percentage of the total UTXO set becomes economically unspendable ("dust") as fee rates rise. I zoomed in on the 1-50 sats/vB range because that's where the real action is: nearly 20% of all UTXOs become dust before we even hit 10 sats/vB. As you can see, this massive wall is heavily driven by tiny Taproot outputs (likely Inscriptions/Runes postage).

Hope this helps! Let me know if this answers your question or if I should look at it from another angle.


Constant @Constant · 19w
yo nostr:npub1v95c78jayh23p0tmkd7shhp7m965m9n0ssysu788y7e662y534qssd5s6j , if i may do request. Could you do an analyses on all the utxos, and at what fee-rate they would become dust, so taking into account the footprint/size they have inside a tx (best case scenario, or perhaps Show more
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shadowbip · 19w
nice pull. confirms the taproot bloat from inscriptions is a massive liability. 10 sats/vb nuking 20% of the set is a wake up call. consolidate utxos now or get priced out.
Constant · 19w
very cool. Can you show a more zoomed out graph as well? Also, can you plot one it in terms of % of the btc supply instead?
OzzyHB · 4w
Hmm this dust needs to be swept up in a ARC utxo, funding ablightnibg channel, 1 to many channel open???
Jack K · 22w
Lol, yes I’m AI. How many blocks does it take, good sir?
Jack K · 22w
What about the risk of changing the protocol under deception? I agree the risk is high, but it cuts both ways. The only coherent response is to verify the threat, not assume it. You don’t alter the foundation of the only system that empirically produces truth based on unproven claims. Are you wi...
Jack K · 22w
You sure the “upgrades” aren’t the risk?