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- Foundry’s 7-block streak: luck or structural edge? The consecutive-block adv
- @sorukumar visualizes bitcoin mining block streaks to rule out pathological behavior.
- 11.3k sats \ 6 comments \ @sorukumar
- Watch Bitcoin's mempool as a live traffic simulation - highway and space theme
- @Robrevolver visualizes bitcoin transactions entering the mempool using vehicles on a highway.
- 10.4k sats \ 25 comments \ @Robrevolver
- [PSI] Personal Sats Inflation, Part 5, Mar 2026 feat. QoQ Numbers
- Do you support the Israeli-US war on Iran?
- @Solomonsatoshi asks stackers to whether they support the Israeli-US war on Iran.
- 24.2k sats \ 64 comments \ @Solomonsatoshi
- Bitcoin Takeover Arcade Challenge
- @TheVladCostea vibe codes ten arcade games and composes them into a little competition.
- 7k sats \ 5 comments \ @TheVladCostea
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- Bob Burnett - Barefoot Mining
- 13.7k sats \ 64 comments \ @BobBurnett
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- Piggy is back! Self-custody this time. You were right.
- The 'Greater Israel' project proposes that military aggression is justified. WW3
- "Really, though, it's all spam." - Tadge Dryja
- de minimis exemption only for stablecoins, tax relief for validators, not miners
- Book Review: A World Appears, by Michael Pollan
- Axios supply chain attack post mortem
- Blinded Paths on Lightning: Stop Running Your Node Naked. Cover Up!
- the fraud is the UBI - Nic Carter
- From the Snowy North, the EU and the Euro Beckons (The Economist)
- CoinSwap v2 - Decentralized Atomic-Swap Marketplace
- bitprojects-io turns off its 3000+ nodes, Bitcoin network keeps on going
- Bitcoin Education app [beta]
- BTC group field trip to a mining facility
- New features I built this week for my BTC EDU app using Claude code w/ Open Claw
- bip54.org - Informational site for BIP54's “Consensus Cleanup” softfork proposal
- Throwback to Meeting Artemis II Crew Members After Neutral Buoyancy Lab Training
- Cluster mempool coming in Bitcoin Core 31
- BIP 110 nodes seem to have similar IP prefixes
- NMail quick tutorial - nostr based email
- War crimes are no longer shameful. That should terrify you
- Will AI Remake the World of Work? (The Daily Economy, JB)
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- Reminder - anti Iran war posts on Stacker.news are getting heavily downzapped
- Stacker News Zine 📜 Making the ephemeral immortal
- attach a spending wallet to SN and get a cool gun on your profile
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Top StackersTop Stackers
- @Scoresby: 91.6k sats stacked
- @optimism: 51.6k sats stacked
- @BlokchainB: 47.1k sats stacked
- @Undisciplined: 43.6k sats stacked
- @NEEDcreations: 40k sats stacked
Top SpendersTop Spenders
- @Scoresby: 119.9k sats spent
- @BlokchainB: 112.1k sats spent
- @Solomonsatoshi: 84k sats spent
- @Undisciplined: 70.3k sats spent
- @sox: 50.8k sats spent
Top CowboysTop Cowboys
- @Undisciplined: 921 days
- @BlokchainB: 900 days
- @grayruby: 864 days
- @Scoresby: 306 days
- @Public_N_M_E: 181 days
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Haha that's a good meme.
What's the implication of how much more the spenders spent than the stackers stacked?
Hmm, well, the list of top spenders is influenced by territory ownership, though.
That was my first thought but mine is paid off and I think Blok's are too and the other two don't own territories.
I don't know about yours, but that wouldn't account for the large discrepancy.
Mine is correct, 50k for the territory and ~800 for random activity (haven’t been active lately, focused on code)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That Foundry 7-block streak caught my eye. Folks forget GHash.IO actually crossed 51% hashrate for 12 hours straight back in July 2014. The community response was wild. Miners voluntarily left the pool until it dropped below 40% within 48 hours. No protocol change needed, just game theory doing its thing.
What makes the Foundry situation different is the FPPS payout model. GHash ran PPS which incentivized loyalty. FPPS adds transaction fee sharing on top, which creates even stickier pool dynamics. Miners have a direct financial penalty for leaving because they forfeit their share of high-fee blocks.
The real metric to watch isn't streak length but the ratio of Foundry's share during fee spikes versus calm periods. That tells you whether the concentration is structural or just statistical noise.