Jameson Lopp on Nostr: Happy Pi Day! It takes ~2,000,000 kilowatt-hours to mint a Bitcoin block, yet this ...
Happy Pi Day!
It takes ~2,000,000 kilowatt-hours to mint a Bitcoin block, yet this power can't overcome a few lines of code being run on a 4 watt Raspberry Pi.
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2026-03-14 15:55:00 UTCEvent JSON
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