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Creator of ePIC BlockMiner™. ePIC UMC OS for better ROI, performance, and efficiency. Flexible payment structure incl. dev fee and licensing model.
🔥 BIG: Nvidia-backed Starcloud CEO says Starcloud-2 will be the first to mine Bitcoin in space, arguing it's the future as Earth-based mining already consumes 20GW of power.
@adam3us @nic_carter @Blockstream A practical lens 1) Semiconductors demo'ed in 1833 by Faraday. ~100yrs later, Schockley built a transistor 2) Super conductivity demo'ed in 1911. 2026, we have not commercialized it yet. 3) Qubits demo'ed in 1995. Quantum computing will break bitcoin...ask in 100yrs
Today marks an inflection in the Ethereum Foundation's long-term quantum strategy. We've formed a new Post Quantum (PQ) team, led by the brilliant Thomas Coratger (@tcoratger). Joining him is Emile, one of the world-class talents behind leanVM. leanVM is the cryptographic cornerstone of our entire post-quantum strategy. After years of quiet R&D, EF management has officially declared PQ security a top strategic priority. Our journey began in 2019, with the "Eth3.0 Quantum Security" presentation at StarkWare Sessions. Since 2024, PQ has been central to the @leanEthereum vision. The pace of PQ engineering breakthroughs since then has been nothing short of phenomenal. It's now 2026, timelines are accelerating. Time to go full PQ: → PQ ACD: Antonio Sanso (@asanso) kicks off a bi-weekly All Core Devs PQ transactions breakout call next month. These sessions focus on user-facing security, covering dedicated precompiles, account abstraction, and longer-term transaction signature aggregation with leanVM. → PQ foundations: Today we are announcing a $1M Poseidon Prize to harden the Poseidon hash function. We are betting big on hash-based cryptography to enjoy the strongest and leanest cryptographic foundations. Check out our other $1M PQ initiative, the Proximity Prize. → PQ devnets: Multi-client PQ consensus devnets are live! Shoutout to pioneers @zeamETH, @ReamLabs, @PierTwo_com, @geanclient, @ethlambda_lean, as well as established consensus teams Lighthouse, Grandine, and soon Prysm. This incredible teamwork is coordinated by @corcoranwill via weekly PQ interop calls. → PQ workshops: Building on last year's PQ workshop in Cambridge (see photo), the EF is hosting another 3-day PQ event in October. Top experts from around the world will convene. In addition, a PQ day is set for March 29 in Cannes just ahead of EthCC. → PQ FV and AI: Last week Alex Hicks (@alexanderlhicks) ran a specialised maths AI for 8 hours, at a $200 cost. It one-shotted a formal proof one of the hardest lemmas in the foundations of hash-based snarks. Mind-blowing. Applied cryptography will never be the same. → PQ roadmap: A comprehensive breakdown of the EF's proposed PQ strategy will be shared soon™ on pq[.]ethereum[.]org. The roadmap targets a full transition in coming years with zero loss of funds and zero downtime. Stay tuned :) → PQ education: The ZKPodcast (@zeroknowledgefm) is producing a 6-part video series on Ethereum's PQ strategy. EF Enterprise Acceleration is also preparing material for enterprises and nation-states. Finally, Ethereum is now represented on the PQ advisory board that Coinbase announced yesterday. Believe in something. Believe in PQ security.
Will Bitcoin miners enter one of the most favourable phases since the China ban? Since October, network hashrate has been pulling back and difficulty has followed. The final weeks of 2025 closed with three consecutive downward adjustments, interrupted only by a marginal +0.04% uptick on December 25. That trend has continued into 2026. The network has already seen two more difficulty reductions, at –1.2% and –3.28%, reflecting the ongoing hashrate pullback. Difficulty has fallen from 155.97T to 141.67T, 9.2% below its all-time high. Extreme winter conditions in the US are driving one of the largest hashrate drawdowns in history. And currently block times are running slower than the 10-minute target. The next adjustment on February 8 is projected at –16.8%, which would be the largest downward move since the China mining ban. Will it really be that big? Probably not. Hashrate is starting to come back online, but even a more moderate adjustment would still extend the favourable mining windows we’ve experienced at the start of 2026.
