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Single board Antminer S19jPro running on 119v power supply with @zbomstaz Loki board.

So, I went and read this bill Juliana keeps talking about. It’s AB 1209. It’s authored by gubernatorial candidate @FrancescaHongWI and it’s absolutely bonkers. Please get comfortable and stick around because there is a whole lot of craziness to unpack. First, the bill raises taxes on filers in Wisconsin’s top income tax bracket by 15.69% these are people making over $323K. So now we know how they’re defining “super rich” and “billionaire.” It’s people making $323K. This alone would make WI the 9th highest income tax state but the bill doesn’t stop there. AB 1209 creates a new bracket starting at $750K and sets the tax rate at 17.70%. 17.70! Under Hong’s plan, WI will be #1 in America for income taxes. So who will be paying this tax? Billionaires? Not really. Wisconsin hardly has any. The majority of payers will be mom and pop small businesses. This is because the overwhelming majority of small businesses file not as corporations but as individuals, pass-throughs, S-corps, etc… and pay the individual tax rate. Close to 80% of small businesses file this way and a substantial majority of people who will be hit by this 17.7% tax will be small businesses. So this isn’t a “billionaires” tax at all. This is a successful small business tax. And this is all before we get into the strange way the bill plans to increase state school aids. Under the bill, for purposes of calculating equalization aids and revenue limits, a middle class English speaking child will only count as 71% of a child as compared to a limited-English, low income pupil. I thought all children were equal but I guess under Hong’s bill some are more equal than others. I’d love to see the Legislative Fiscal Bureau run this district by district so we can see who wins and who loses under Hong’s weird plan of counting some children as lesser than other children. Finally, I don’t see anything in the bill limiting property taxes. Presumably they would just keep going up despite increased state aids. So, how would this net out? If this bill passed, we could immediately expect: - Most of WI’s wealthiest would leave. - Thousands of small businesses would close their doors. - Large corporations will transfer their executives elsewhere and some will abandon Wi. It will no longer be possible to recruit talent to WI. (This is happening with Starbucks and Amazon right now in Washington over a 9.9% tax. Guess what a 17.7% tax will do.) - The Packers and Brewers will not be able to recruit talent. (I spent last week with some NFL players and they assured me that this is a big deal). - Tax revenues will plummet. WI will face a budget deficit and effectively go into recession. - Despite the new state aid increases, local governments appear to be able to raise property taxes more (and they’ll need to after commercial values plummet due to all the office buildings being abandoned). If this isn’t bad enough, the Hongs and Julianas of Wisconsin have other bills including a local option super tax, which is a great way to chase entrepreneurs out of your city. But the point is that this is unserious policy. To call it sophomoric is an insult to sophomores. This is economic suicide that can only come from the fever dreams of fervent communists. After reading it, I’m more motivated than ever to elect @TomTiffanyWI. @HeartlandPostWI @DanLennington @DanODonnellShow @VickiMcKenna @maciverwisc @AFPWI @WILawLiberty @meganjnovak @yount1130 @WisGOP @alexbruesewitz

Lowe’s chose Flock Safety over customer privacy. That's fine. We choose not giving them our money. Don't shop at Home Depot, either. They're next!

@JasonBassler1 Disabled permanently? Boy I think it would be trouble damaging property.

⚠️ Definitely DO NOT point a 1000nm wavelength green laser at Flock cameras. It totally won't damage the sensor and render the camera ineffective. So please don't consider it, okay?

@RoninMiner @JasonBassler1 @Yugocana @BTCSpeedBoat @BITCOIN_RAIL @btctwatterpants haha

@JasonBassler1 @Yugocana @BTCSpeedBoat @BITCOIN_RAIL @btctwatterpants

Professional golfer John Daly grabs a guitar and starts jamming out, singing “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”

@hodlonaut You are doing Satoshi's work sir. Godspeed.

Never would I have believed five years ago that I would be attacked, smeared and harassed by Adam Back, Shinobi, MrHodl and others for publishing a fully sourced investigation article about Bitcoin Core governance. It doesn't quite feel compatible with the whole "don't trust, verify" and decentralization mantras. It really is an unbelievable state of affairs. Appeals to authority, shaming, ad hominems, smears.... Zero engagement with the imo shocking revelations of the articles.

When a tornado hits in 2027…👀

@GhostOfStoneyX2 Yo

Who is still around from my OG account? I must follow

Presidential Words To Live By

@SoftwarmLLC @FogHashing

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

@SportsSeason_ That isn't butter. Its butter flavored soybean oil.

Boy layered the butter instead of putting it all at the top, I would’ve put some singles in his shirt

“BIP-110 is cEnSoRsHip” - the same evil villain crypto VC seeking to profit from confiscation of 34% of Bitcoin via BIP-361

@prevhashnonce I want to take a long weekend and drive over and wrench on generators.

Bitcoin mining

@prevhashnonce You mean like this?

Home mining is… running a miner, in your home…pool, solo, pointing to someone else’s solo node like CK, or building your own candidate blocks with your own mining node, that’s all up to you. And, that’s it folks, gotta run the fucking machine on your property, own your own machines. Pay your electricity provider, generate your own electricity, capture the heat, vent it, mitigate sound… whatever, lots of fun stuff. But anything else… not it Hosting , that’s cool, you own the machines, but someone else runs it for you, that’s cool, relatively unprofitable lately, and good luck getting your machines back without a great hassle, but at least they’re technically yours. Used to be a great solution for those with unreasonable electricity rates, you do what you gotta do. But renting hash!? Home mining!? 😂 you gotta be fuckin kidding me. What do I know though, spring is here and I’ll be taking the 5 miners I use to heat the house over to the gas well and will… get this… not be a home miner… until next winter. They all have epicUMC boards on and they’re more efficient than the ones they’ll be replacing. It’s getting warmer and it’s more important I make sure the phases on my gens are perfectly balanced and I like epic’s voltage controls, but I digress. I won’t be a home miner this summer, as I haven’t been in the summers for a couple years now. That’s right, I’ve been a home miner since 2018 (technically since 2012, but that’s another story 🤦🏻‍♂️) and I won’t be calling myself a home miner this summer as … THERE WONT BE ANY MINERS IN MY HOME!!! You get the point though, this renting hash thing is fuckin gay, and just the latest iteration of the Ocean/Dorsey/OP_Return/Luke/Mechanic/virtue signaling/BIP110 “I’m here to save ₿itcoin” faggotry that has been gay since day 1 and will be in perpetuity. These shrimpy little turds have taken more fun out of mining than this mining bear market and depressed hash price has. Get back to it boys, get back to it Pleb Miners, build shit, do shit, take risk, innovate, fuck up or succeed, it all depends on your work ethic and ingenuity. Man I long for the days of everyone putting S9s in igloo coolers and stealing free electricity from their apartment buildings, or pirating energy where they could (remember the school custodian that was setting up miners in the ceiling of his school, 😂 fucking awesome). IDK, that’s my two cents. Just a random editorial from me 🖕🏻💀🖕🏻

@Bigpicture123 Post your MSTR short position.

The horrible $MSTR price action today is telling. Bad news coming imo. Either Saylor is going to announce a reduced STRC yield rate or he’s going to announce more dilution to increase the fiat cash reserve. I’d say the latter is more probable. Both are horrible for the MSTR shareholder. The cracks have become holes. There is an inevitable structural ceiling that emerges when scale driven dilution requirements begin to outweigh growth capabilities. This highlights the structural fragility of the model, which becomes more pronounced as it scales, leading to its inevitable breaking point.

@TechHustler This is a 200Th home miner that heats 40 gallons of domestic hot water.

⛏This is a Big One! 🎥youtu.be/upRsBpU7wf8

@fold_app What the heck was in like the top 500 on the wait list. use.foldapp.com/r/JA7H7UVW

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"𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳" A wholesome basketball movie starring JD Vance just in time for March Madness.