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@Schnitzel @skot9000 @256FOUNDATION If successful this is huge

While you all are fighting, the @256FOUNDATION has been quietly building. Pesenting: The world first mixed-hashboard (S19j + S19k) Bitcoin miner. Possibilities: endless. 🧵

On the filter fork topic. I don't usually have time, but this morning listened to one of the twitter spaces from earlier in the week, with some well meaning relative bitcoin newcomers, that humanized them, and their concerns and thoughts for why they thought that made it logical to support 110. My feeling after listening, is if these are the people with #110 in their handles, I'm sad to see them about to fork off and get disillusioned without understanding why bitcoin rejected 110 robustly. So here's a more empathetic, constructive higher level version of explaining why not. I hope it's high-level and first-principles enough that everyone can follow. They seem to want to understand what makes people tick, and are suspicious of intent. So, if someone asked me why is Bitcoin important and what is it, I'd say my (personal) mission and hope for bitcoin is to build the cypherpunk future, that "Snow Crash" was a blueprint, and work backwards from there. Bitcoin I hope leads to fully free markets via bearer unseizable, hard mathematically dependable money. Not everyone is comfortable with that level of freedom, but that's my view. And at this point, I believe that surprisingly, even now many governments have come to understand and value bitcoin's gold-like mathematical assurance, a positive development. Others may have milder views than myself, but still like hard censorship resistant money. Because of motive suspicion, if it's not obvious: I hate spam with a passion, that's how I came to design hashcash while researching decentralized bearer money with others, and running nodes in privacy related cypherpunk p2p networks nearly three decades ago. People seem upset about the default op return policy change in bitcoin. I will just assert, there are extremely robust and simple reasons for bitcoin changing default relay policy, and most just didn't do their research, so don't know what those are, or maybe not technical enough to fully understand though there have been 1000s of posts trying to explain in various simplified ways. So that lack of understanding lends itself to shared build-up of false narratives. So here's my back-to-basics higher level explanation. The decentralization needed to create cypherpunk money has implications a: side effect of decentralization is that you can't impose your views on others. The very decentralization mechanism that helps that, is working against what BIP 110 wants, which at it's most basic is a quest to police other people. I understand supporters don't see their intent like that, but introspect deeper. You can modify your software, but not anyone else's. Another critical and incredibly robust technical bitcoin immune system is bitcoin can't have people who don't understand technology basics insist on eroding security, decentralization robustness and core properties. That would end badly, fast, and so people will fight you on that. So the message is Bitcoin respectfully says "no" to what you want. Sorry, and bitcoiners do genuinely understand and empathize that you mean well, have high level thoughts that make emotional sense, and articulate sensible bitcoin-defensive high level ideas, but they are not grounded and without you seeing it, the way you propose to achieve your ideas, hard-conflict with free cypherpunk permissionless money. My advice is to listen to more experienced people who understand the system and why it works the way it does, to whatever detail you want to understand the grounded reasons for why this is the implication of decentralization and cypherpunk money. I guarantee you the developer and protocol ecosystem shares and exceeds your views on bearer hard money (and dislike of spam). You may not agree with individual developers choices, views, way of expressing themselves etc, BUT you also need to understand the IETF-like decentralized technical consensus process creates a protective change resistance, that is highly effective at protecting bitcoin mission. The implication of which is no developer can change anything without technical consensus from hundreds of other developers and protocol observers who are pedantic and extremely knowledgeable clever people who won't let any unaddressed technical question past. The protective change resistance is robust and decentralized in an amplifying way because of this technical consensus. And the many highly technical mainline developers' cypherpunk mission mindsets are probably far more determined than you can even handle on clarity of understanding and views about freedoms on permissionless networks, as many of you are probably still subconsciously inured by the matrix, where they have transcended that, and grew up immersed in it decades ago. They think natively in this space, while you are just grappling with the surface. Many wont have internalized or have the experience to know how this internet physics works, where there is no policeman, no policy authority, just mathematics, free market and hard money. That has implications for your views also, unfortunately. Now the tough pill, which is unfortunately true: If you won't listen to reason, educate yourself, learn, the same radical freedom applies to you: your permissionless recourse is to club together and create a fork. But bitcoin won't be joining it. (With respect and no sleight intended.) Please rejoin bitcoin now, or later if you're not convinced and need to experience 110 forking off and fizzling for yourself to start that journey of introspecting and learning. It would be sad if bitcoin lost people disillusioned due to simple lack of understanding of what's going on there, we're all trying to defend bitcoin and keep it on mission. Including btw the 110 technical promoters, just they wandered off plot somehow. Join the cypherpunks on bitcoin, come cypherpunk summer🌞 in a few weeks.

@Schnitzel @256FOUNDATION Very cool keep it coming

@stephanlivera What prevents a repeated 51% attack on the 110 chain if the bip can’t get enough miners onboard? Couldn’t miners on OG BTC just move to 51% attack the new chain?

Think it through even further, if there's no replay protection, which exchange is going to offer 110-coin for sale or purchase? Who is going to be out there continually buying 110-coin on these non-existent exchanges? So how do 110-miners get paid?

BIP110 currently has about 0.5% hash rate signaling. If it activates at just 0.5%, blocks would take ~32 hours each. The first difficulty adjustment (2016 blocks) would then take roughly 7.5 years. So if they want to continue at that point, EDA hardfork.

This anti-DataCenter US community stance is wild to me. @kevinolearytv @pmarca From the late 60s to the late 80s much of the manufacturing moved out of the US. Now we have significant reliance on China, Mexico, Canada, and most of Asia for goods. In the late 80s through the early 2000s much of the white collar work started to shift offshore to Pakistan and India Now here in the modern 2020s somehow the media, social media has convinced that computers in a room with measurable low byproducts themselves (including the gen farms) are being pushed out by not political party’s or big business but if all people the communities around the US. Datacenters are getting a terrible rep from so much misinformation (largely funded by interest outside the US and funded interest lobbies) to convince communities they are bad just to push the entire thing to a few unfortunate conclusions. 1) due to the security sensitive nature of them, the gov will start just using eminent domain and or putting them on national grounds or bases which do not directly benefit any community but still will be part of communities. 2) they will be pushed just offshore or to the edges in Mexico and Canada, which will reap the benefits of the tax bases that bring significant revenue to local host, thereby negating any benefit to communities in the US 3) all these communities fighting them will get a stark reality when they start looking like Detroit in 1980s-90s with nothing being able to be built because somehow this country has gotten in that building is bad. Real debates, with measurable benefits, need to drive the conversation for the communities that can host these. How can one community applaud a petrol chemical or steel plant starting back up but then shut down a DataCenter that doesn’t have near the environmental impact (as a local reference to us); which I’m for all of being built. It’s actually pretty shocking to me, especially building data centers, 100+ MW of Bitcoin mines for the past 12 years for both government and civilian, the information warfare and the Facebook community groups are getting played hard.

@BitsBeTrippin @GoldTelegraph_ It’s getting wild

Next will be datacenters since all of the communities fighting them. It's such a weird time where we can't get anything built because of the full on assault on the industries from nearly every community. We have been denied on multiple builds recently as mining gets associated with AI datacenter fight now. Covered a video recently that was predicting this exact behavior.

BREAKING NEWS THE US ARMY WILL ALLOW SEVERAL COMPANIES TO BUILD CRITICAL MINERALS PROCESSING PLANTS AT MILITARY BASES Here we go…

@alphazeta 💪

Rio Marathon 2026 ✅ 26 miles. Still the best way I know to clear the mind. A brutal but beautiful sport. Mostly mental. POW at its core.

@alphazeta Keep building hard and when things turn around they will say we got lucky. 💪

@256shaman Hashprice below $30 is brutal indeed...

We are experiencing the first bear market in network hashrate in Bitcoin's history. This is the longest stretch without a new network hashrate ATH in the ASIC era. ~258 days since the last ATH and still ~25% below the peak. I wrote about this last month: x.com/alphazeta/stat…

@alphazeta @skot9000 @ElektronEnergy @256FOUNDATION Good cause

@ElektronEnergy will be back for the next one. Would love to see more miners join us. @256FOUNDATION is doing the work miners should want done keeping the mining stack open, permissionless, and harder to capture. Supporting it should be obvious self-interest for anyone who mines Bitcoin.

@cantonmeow Been thinking about this too

#Bitcoin tends to go parabolic for about 6 months to a year after Copper/Gold ratio MACD goes through a monthly bullish cross.

@mikealfred Yes big time mismatch in power vs mkt cap

Starting to slowly average up in SLNH. Tyler Page's comments on Tuesday really solidified my view that behind the meter power generation is going to be a key part of the long term story here. SLNH is well positioned for this at a very low market cap. High asymmetry possible.

@WilsonMining @Braiins Pretty good tune honestly. That low temp def helps but still that’s some horsepower.

Can anyone beat this with a S21 XP?

@EliNagar @Braiins @firefish_io Nah just buy btc esp at these prices

A guy I know did this: 1. Borrowed against BTC at 5.5% (Firefish) 2. Deployed fiat into STRC at 11.5% ~6% spread, BTC untouched (non-custodial). Sounds like a pretty good yield.

@EA_Rice Gratitude and prayer 💪

Starting your morning in prayer sets the tone for everything that follows that day. Prayer centers your heart and reminds you that you are not walking through the day alone. There is something powerful about placing the day in God’s hands before it even begins. But prayer isn’t meant for just a single moment. It can become a steady thread woven throughout your day. In your small pauses while you’re working, traveling or even in moments of stress you can turn your thoughts back to God. A quiet “thank you,” a whispered request for guidance or a moment of stillness can reconnect you instantly. When you begin your day in prayer and return to Him often, your perspective shifts. Worries feel lighter, decisions clearer and even ordinary moments take on deeper meaning. Over time, prayer becomes less of a routine and more of a relationship one that grows stronger with every moment you choose to turn toward Him. “In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.” - Psalm 5:3

@SoftwarmLLC @FogHashing Sick dude!

This is an industrial water tank setup. We can heat a 3000 gallon water tank from 50-120F in under two days with 6kw of #Bitcoin production. Propane bill slayer. Propane heater augments when more hot water is needed, but everything is thermostatically controlled. @FogHashing C1 units

@HodlAlabamGhost Secure your supply chain

Carnivore diet was fun. Drought, fertilizer, diesel. Food will be a luxary in 2027. fortune.com/2026/04/18/rec…

@chamath We already do this. Incentivize the community in a mutually symbiotic way.

If the leadership in the AI movement doesn’t step up quickly, organize around the right “go to market” and create incentives to align everyone, this will be a generational fumble. It is, sadly, happening before our eyes.

@martypartymusic One thing I’ve noticed is the token consumption rate has increased for the same type of work in 2025 vs now. You run out of usage faster than it used to.

How much are people spending on Anthropic tokens? Anthropic’s annualized run-rate revenue (ARR) which largely reflects what people and companies are spending on Claude tokens and related services has exploded: Early 2025: ~$1 billion End of 2025: ~$9 billion February 2026: ~$14 billion Early April 2026: Over $30 billion 👀

@bryan_johnson The mental journey is the real experience

Felt like I was going to die in the sauna this morning. Experiment: time to reach a core body temp of 102.2°F (39°C) > with ice on face and neck: 38 min > no ice on face and neck: 33 min Dry sauna at 195°F Will graph data and share. Some unexpected things. How it felt 👇