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Christian, Lawn care, landscaping, facilities mgmt, 1st generation pleb miner. U of M. GO BLUE! Cincy Reds!

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Two childhood cancer survivors... Both beat cancer but one beat Ohio too! GO BLUE! #GoBlue #Michiganfootball #uofm #childhoodcancer #fcancer

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@elonmusk Living his best life 🤣

[Office of the Secretary of the Air Force @SecAFOfficial]

In consultation with @SecWar, we will EXTEND the A-10 “Warthog” platform to 2030. This preserves combat power as the Defense Industrial Base works to increase combat aircraft production.

Thank you to @POTUS for your unwavering support of our warfighters and quick, decisive leadership as we equip our force. More to come.

[Michigan Men's Basketball @umichbball]

The Kings of College Basketball 〽️

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@JalenRose The Fab 5 brought basketball into the modern era...

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@JasonAtwell14 Move it to Welch, WV!

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@JalenRose GO BLUE!

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@harukaawake West Virginia checking in. 🫡

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@JalenRose The Fab 5!

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@RedsDaily4 Nice to not hear "parlay" 500 times!

[Jimmy King @Jimmyking35]

Mason Miller using Korn’s Blind as his entrance song into the 9th inning int is so unbelievably bad ass

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@prevhashnonce 🙌

[Jon @prevhashnonce]

Just getting started with mining? My answer… Don’t!!!

But if you insist…

Educate yourself relentlessly on the fundamentals before you spend a single dollar or sat—and start small. Mining isn’t “plug in and print sats.” It’s a mix of economics, electrical work, physics, and risk management. Chimp out and you’ll learn painful lessons the hard way—just look at everyone who overpaid for machines in 2021 and then watched hash price crash while difficulty kept climbing.

Statistics. Hash rate, difficulty, hash price, and hash value… know them.
• Hash price = daily revenue in USD per unit of hashrate (typically $/TH/day). It moves with Bitcoin’s fiat price, tx fees, and difficulty.
• Hash value = daily revenue in actual BTC per unit of hashrate (BTC/TH/day). This one is unaffected by Bitcoin’s fiat price.

Know your goals. Why are you even doing this? Pure experiment? Stacking sats? Capturing heat to hedge your heating bills? Or chasing fiat income? Your answer dictates much—machine choice, scale, and how patient you can be.

Master electricity basics. Learn basic wiring, Ohm’s Law (V = IR), Joule’s Law (P = I²R for heat), and the 80% rule (never run a circuit above 80% of its rating continuously). Electricity is king—usually 70-90% of your total costs.

Understand thermodynamics (no engineering degree required). Know how to expel heat effectively or capture it productively, especially if you’re mining at home.

Decide your scale wisely. Shitaxe, new home-friendly miners, or full traditional industrial rigs. Start small. Even if you have 100 spare amps on your panel, don’t fill it on day one. Learn on one or two machines first.
Power source and energy cost. Know exactly where your power comes from and what it truly costs. Cheap electricity is the only sustainable edge.

Understand your expected returns and when to upgrade. Run the numbers constantly. Hash price and hash value tell you when it’s time to sell old gear, upgrade efficiency, or pause.

Solo vs. pool mining.
Solo: you need runway and must be comfortable with lottery-level luck (your odds are basically your share of total network hashrate).
Pool: steadier payouts, but understand the different systems (FPPS, PPLNS, etc.) and fees. Choose based on whether you need sats right away or can ride out variance.

Know ALL your costs. Energy is king, but don’t forget machine replacement/repair, dust filters, pool fees, IT and electrical infrastructure. Hidden costs kill profitability fast.

Don’t ape in. Chill the fuck out. The 2021 homies who bought machines only because hash price was wild got stuck holding their dicks in their hands for years when difficulty exploded and they never ROI’d.

Get good advice. I trust very very few salesman. @altair_tech, @nickfost_, and @MegaMinerAlex are at the top of the pops, knowledgeable, honest, and genuinely want you to succeed.

Ask questions! Ask as many questions as you can and if you’re comfortable, ask them publicly. There’s no shortage of guys with years of painful experience who are willing to share their mining life stories with you.

Finally, be prepared for pain—especially if you plan to scale. 🖕🏻💀🖕🏻

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@Magpul You guys using Internet Explorer?

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@Paul_Skenes @PlayersTribune 🫡

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@btctwatterpants

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

For $0.20 a day, you can help smuggle frightened F-14s out of Iran and into the arms of a loving family...🥺😞

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@BasedDaedalus *Mechanical Engineers.... Civil Engineers build targets, Mechanical Engineers build weapons systems.

[Michigan Hockey @umichhockey]

GOLDEN BOYS!

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@umichhockey GO BLUE! GO USA!