The Hash Cast, Episode 377

SHOW NOTES Sponsored by: Upstream Data, turning methane into bitcoin, they are your one-stop-shop for Bitcoin mines of any scale. Navigate over to shop.upstreamdata.ca and check out their online store. SPONSORED BY: Braiins, a Bitcoin mining company developing the tools to optimize your operations. Navigate over to braiins.com and check out their ASIC autotuning firmware - BraiinsOS & BraiinsOS+, Farm Proxy - ASIC management software, BraiinsPool - the first Bitcoin mining pool, their mining insights dashboard, their Bitcoin mining blog, and more. STATE OF THE NETWORK DIFFICULTY: https://www.bitrawr.com/difficulty-estimator HASHRATE: https://mempool.space/graphs/mining/hashrate-difficulty ASIC PRICES: https://data.hashrateindex.com/rig-index-data INSIGHTS: https://insights.braiins.com/en/ INDUSTRY NEWS Large-scale Bitcoin miners continue to struggle under current market conditions: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/11/02/2546487/0/en/Financing-and-Bitmain-Prepayment- MINING DEVELOPMENTS ASICs integrated into a digital boiler wheel for use in a whiskey distillery: https://twitter.com/Colin_Sully/status/1586589461634506752 https://mintgreen.co/projects/shelter-point-distillery/ HOME MINER HALL OF FAME @DigitalCornFarm making some radiators: https://twitter.com/DigitalCornFarm/status/1587218964341563392 @RaveElevator pushing 4 S9s: https://twitter.com/RaveElevator/status/1586785593320579073 @CanadaExtreme heating their home with ASICs this winter: https://twitter.com/CanadaExtreme/status/1587841560246423553 @kosmatos also heating their Canadian home with ASICs this winter: https://twitter.com/kosmatos/status/1586601746318721025 @BikesandBitcoin also ready for this winter using ASICs as heat: https://twitter.com/BikesandBitcoin/status/1587958519847784448 PRIVACY IMPLICATIONS Jordan B. Peterson advocating for KYC requirements on social media. https://twitter.com/econoalchemist/status/1588000775493468160 GUEST SEGMENT Held an hour long AMA session on Twitter Spaces and discussed KYC Bitcoin & CoinJoin, privacy on Lightning, and more.