This is a great new multisig hardware wallet device one of the local bitdevs in our meetup has been working on and is coming out soon. Uses taproot and allows dynamic adding and removing signatures.

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Try again. Venus from this morning 2025-05-11 in infrared, this time with correct caption.

Venus captured in infrared this morning 2025-05-11.

First Saturn images of its new season. Saturn is almost edge on this year so its rings reflect hardly any light, making them virtually disappear with normal exposures. Here are my captures in visible light and near infrared from early this morning.

Congratulations to miner bc1~nnc5 with ~230TH for solving the 299th solo block mined at

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! A miner of this size has about a 1 in 30,000 chance of finding a block each day.

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Congratulations to miner bc1qq926qlrhc2pvxzc5f0zswnvqqddqqj3tz2amla with a sizeable 2.5PH/s for solving the first EU solo block and the 298th block at solo.ckpool.org!

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A miner of this size has about a one in 2,000 chance if finding a block per day.

Congratulations to a super lucky miner bc1qaxccz85rx6ywy2xw6ugtm6u37mvew6qqn7lgtd with only 3.3TH who solved the 297th solo block at

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with a 480GH bitaxe!

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A miner of this size has only less than a 1 in a million chance of finding a block per day, or put alternatively, would take 3500 years to find a block on average.

The new server has been deployed and the dedicated

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for miners in Europe and Africa is now active once more. Miners need not make any configuration changes. You may need to restart your mining hardware for it to reconnect to the new server.

Congratulations to massive miner bc1qa8r4up9nchkvdnhcf9feexv2jfantrk48ef374 (probably a rental) with 85PH for solving the 296th solo block solved at

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Update re the EU solo pool. Everyone mining to eusolo.ckpool.org is currently directed to the main pool solo.ckpool.org as it was rapidly decommissioned by the original donor. The new hardware was meant to take 3 days to provision but my provider has already set it up. I'll get to work at deploying the pool as soon as possible.