Dr -ck

Bitcoin's cgminer,ckpool,admin of http://solo.ckpool.org,-ck kernel,Anaesthetist,Japanese translator,HiFi,astronomy,nutrition,anime geek

Public Key

npub1q0k5l5y437p48vlg4pynht5qkddgdzsea3r2dnxkpn2ju5kn993qnt7wtf

NIP-05 Address

ckolivas@iris.to

NIP-57 Address

ckpooldev@walletofsatoshi.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsq8m206z2clq6nk052sjfm46qtxk5x3gv7c34xentqe4fw2tfjjcspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgjycqrv

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nos.lol

relay.nostr.band

Author Public Key

npub1q0k5l5y437p48vlg4pynht5qkddgdzsea3r2dnxkpn2ju5kn993qnt7wtf

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Last Notes

2025-05-01 02:41:37 UTC

First Saturn images of its new season. Saturn is almost edge on this year so its rings reflect hardly any light, making them virtually disappear with normal exposures. Here are my captures in visible light and near infrared from early this morning.
https://m.primal.net/QjAa.jpg
https://m.primal.net/QjAb.jpg

2025-04-11 21:39:02 UTC

Congratulations to miner bc1~nnc5 with ~230TH for solving the 299th solo block mined at http://solo.ckpool.org! A miner of this size has about a 1 in 30,000 chance of finding a block each day.
https://m.primal.net/QMPZ.png
https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000003d9a1a59f93a992c0858d3d15627a87fe5649b76563e

2025-03-29 20:16:27 UTC

Congratulations to miner bc1qq926qlrhc2pvxzc5f0zswnvqqddqqj3tz2amla with a sizeable 2.5PH/s for solving the first EU solo block and the 298th block at solo.ckpool.org!
https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000005afed55b551d961220653a05daa8f362de2a384d8cea
A miner of this size has about a one in 2,000 chance if finding a block per day.

2025-03-11 05:03:12 UTC

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From the pool logs' worker name, which corresponds with the hashrate of a bitaxes.

2025-03-10 21:30:18 UTC

Congratulations to a super lucky miner bc1qaxccz85rx6ywy2xw6ugtm6u37mvew6qqn7lgtd with only 3.3TH who solved the 297th solo block at https://solo.ckpool.org with a 480GH bitaxe!
https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000006414aea39be567cf1d5ff6cbf2d77254fe7c714b0d81
A miner of this size has only less than a 1 in a million chance of finding a block per day, or put alternatively, would take 3500 years to find a block on average.

2025-02-01 03:53:19 UTC

The new server has been deployed and the dedicated http://eusolo.ckpool.org for miners in Europe and Africa is now active once more. Miners need not make any configuration changes. You may need to restart your mining hardware for it to reconnect to the new server.

2025-01-31 19:47:15 UTC

Congratulations to massive miner bc1qa8r4up9nchkvdnhcf9feexv2jfantrk48ef374 (probably a rental) with 85PH for solving the 296th solo block solved at http://solo.ckpool.org https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000022247ce3898fc9e10be0161cde5f369293d7a916ca8b3

2025-01-31 07:44:24 UTC

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Syncing the blockchain now.

2025-01-30 19:42:48 UTC

Update re the EU solo pool. Everyone mining to eusolo.ckpool.org is currently directed to the main pool solo.ckpool.org as it was rapidly decommissioned by the original donor. The new hardware was meant to take 3 days to provision but my provider has already set it up. I'll get to work at deploying the pool as soon as possible.

2025-01-30 07:08:13 UTC

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Update to this: I have ordered a new server for EU, and there should effectively be no downtime for http://eusolo.ckpool.org as I migrate services once the new one is provisioned. The donor has already decommissioned the old one and all eu miners are directed to the main solo.ckpool.org I'll post updates as they come to hand.

2025-01-29 05:19:50 UTC

Re: http://eusolo.ckpool.org, sadly the anonymous individual who offered to fund the server's running has retracted their offer. This & the stats incident has confirmed my belief I should not rely on others. I will likely now fund it myself but will need to migrate the service.

2024-12-21 23:56:57 UTC

Congratulations to massive miner 3FK6JGHQpvqQatbpzje1yUbPbV9m1YjoKq with 50PH for solving the 295th solo block at http://solo.ckpool.org. A miner this size would solve a block every ~100 days on average
https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000008659827d9d3e3f98cb6428ce5149464b44125be5ce19

2024-12-02 22:49:33 UTC

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Neutral, undecided

2024-12-01 01:35:25 UTC

Prove to me you don't understand why bitcoin and not shitcoins without saying you don't understand bitcoin...
https://m.primal.net/MlEw.png

2024-11-30 07:26:10 UTC

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What I run today is ckpool, mining pool software I wrote, in solo mining configuration as solo.ckpool.org

2024-11-30 07:25:06 UTC

Amazing. This quote showed from David Marcus great insight and was completely unexpected regarding the failure of Libra - Meta's planned shitcoin.
https://m.primal.net/Mkmh.png

2024-11-30 07:23:48 UTC

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Sorry, minor correction: Cgminer was the defacto mining client software, and it's still in use today in some form in most mining hardware. Slush was the first mining pool.

2024-11-29 11:36:24 UTC

Three people came to me this week asking for orange pills.

2024-11-29 08:51:17 UTC

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Okay thanks. Yeah only a fraction of the followers I have on X would explain it.

2024-11-28 22:52:22 UTC

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For reasons unknown (probably something to do with nostr propagation of notes from my poorly connected part of the world) my own posts on nostr don't seem to get any traction.

2024-11-28 22:46:26 UTC

The EU solo ckpool is up and running! Connect to the pool via instructions at http://eusolo.ckpool.org. Graphical stats available at http://eusolostats.ckpool.org. Miners in Europe and Africa are encouraged to move to the new pool. Miners in The Americas and Asia-Pacific should still use http://solo.ckpool.org but the sister pool can be used as backup.
This is an entirely separate pool from http://solo.ckpool.org and neither shares nor stats are shared across instances for overhead reasons. They only help propagate each others' blocks. Both will solve blocks with the same coinbase signature though.

2024-11-18 21:46:02 UTC

Here's a little podcast I did with bitcoin mining world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c46ATjHL-I

2024-11-01 06:31:43 UTC

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No, it was a miner with huge hashrate, probably a rental.

2024-10-08 03:47:25 UTC

I've tentatively set up a new stats site courtesy of MrV_777 for trial. I'm personally hosting this one, but I've left his donation link intact since he did the work. Some other web devs are also working on alternatives, so do not assume this is the final form but please test it out. I may be hosting multiple in the future whilst testing them out.
Http only for now:
http://solostats.ckpool.org

2024-10-03 10:45:05 UTC

Saturn captured in excellent conditions 2024-09-27
https://m.primal.net/LJjW.jpg

2024-10-03 10:44:14 UTC

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I haven't really looked into it to have an informed opinion on it.

2024-09-29 13:42:35 UTC

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Cool, I'm all for more solo mining.

2024-09-26 07:36:18 UTC

A phenomenon known as the Seeliger effect means Saturn's rings appear brighter when it's at its closest approach to Earth. This animated gif shows the alternating captures at opposition 2024 and two weeks later demonstrating this effect.
https://m.primal.net/LCZS.gif

2024-09-26 01:13:01 UTC

Anyone using the solostats website for stats on http://solo.ckpool.org should know that it was being maintained by a 3rd party and in the last day they briefly put up a fee scheme which was not sanctioned by me and the breach of trust has made me decide to pull endorsement of it for now.
Trust is very difficult to obtain in this space, and whilst it was probably a simple error of judgement, I'd find it hard to resume endorsing the site. The simple text stats available directly from the solo.ckpool.org site remain available as always.

2024-09-23 00:55:44 UTC

Saturn captured in infrared 2024-09-22
https://m.primal.net/Kymc.jpg

2024-09-04 20:55:19 UTC

Saturn captured in composite infrared 2024-08-18
https://m.primal.net/KeVk.jpg

2024-09-04 02:48:57 UTC

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Confusing, it says lnurl is outdated but wants an lnurl in the ln address field?

2024-09-04 02:22:29 UTC

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Also amethyst says that lnurl is the outdated one.

2024-09-04 02:21:54 UTC

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I put wos address in for now.

2024-09-04 01:33:15 UTC

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I'm primarily on desktop and everything was bad till I discovered primal. Amethyst on mobile is good though but I hate typing on phones.

2024-09-04 01:28:24 UTC

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I'd be here more except all the clients till recently kept dying and not communicating. It seems to have improved now.

2024-09-04 01:22:38 UTC

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The lack of Oceania relays would explain why I have connectivity issues.

2024-09-04 00:42:05 UTC

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And phoenix is self custody so doesn't support it. Guess I could add a wos address.

2024-09-04 00:39:09 UTC

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Amethyst says lnurl is deprecated

2024-09-03 22:01:48 UTC

Saturn captured in infrared 2024-08-18
https://m.primal.net/Kcrj.jpg

2024-09-02 22:01:34 UTC

Weirdly people see the ckpool project is 10 years old and think the code is 10 years old when it's actively maintained. I don't support any external ckpool docker containers maintained by anyone else that are out there.
The code as is published, is used directly on solo ckpool:
https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool/src/master/

2024-08-31 22:15:33 UTC

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Most of them probably hadn't heard of VPNs before, and the announcement may have made them aware of their existence for the first time, unwittingly informing them.

2024-08-31 21:53:05 UTC

Saturn & inner moons captured 2024-08-18
https://m.primal.net/KXrB.jpg

2024-08-30 08:10:51 UTC

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Can't tell anything from the pool end; only the hashrate. Could be a huge industrial miner, or could have been rented hashrate.

2024-08-29 21:36:45 UTC

Congratulations to miner 36AisvWi1UiwLTeTZxLzindAkorqeUc3tT for solving the 291st solo block on http://solo.ckpool.org! This hefty miner with 38PH would solve a block on average once every ~4 months. https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000016ccd32328638865256249e592246bfae8af4031dda01

2024-08-28 09:27:17 UTC

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Thanks I saw that, was wondering if there were plain polls. Knowing the nostr protocol it's not trivial to implement, but wondering if anyone had.

2024-08-28 08:58:43 UTC

Is there any way to post polls on nostr?

2024-08-28 06:17:50 UTC

Saturn captured with its 8 biggest moons in frame 2024-08-18
https://m.primal.net/KQiI.jpg

2024-08-28 01:31:01 UTC

Theoretical physics has been using dark matter to fill in the gaps in existing theories, yet decades of searching for it has failed to find any proof of it. I find the possibility that the theories are wrong to begin with and need to be reworked compelling as an outsider. It reminds me so much of modern medicine insisting that cholesterol must be the cause of heart disease even if none of the research to date has convincingly demonstrated it because "we just haven't done a good enough study yet." 70 years since it was first proposed isn't long enough?

2024-08-28 00:57:07 UTC

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It's terminal.

2024-03-04 08:48:07 UTC

Nice, we got our $100K AUD BTC breakthrough at last. Next stop 1M.

2024-03-03 11:55:14 UTC

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They claimed they randomly guessed at needing 10x their normal capacity and it exceeded that, instead of doing what any large scale operation would do which is simply implement load-based scaling. Of course it rings of bullshit, but then given how incompetent they are, these guys couldn't get laid in a brothel, so it could well still be just plain incompetence. Either way conbase continue to prove they're enemies of bitcoin, whether it was malice or stupidity.

2024-03-03 02:54:13 UTC

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Virtue signalling for the disgruntled rather than having an actual informed platform. Can't say I'm surprised.

2024-03-02 14:07:00 UTC

Mineral 61% waning gibbous moon captured on my birthday, 2024-03-02. Not sure how well big images are handled on Nostr, so let's see.
https://i.nostrimg.com/4927930484879958da57d15e1802454d8f8d587321d208c2f3521a9cbc34b46f/file.jpg

2024-01-06 04:32:03 UTC

Someone sent me some sats and nostr is the only place I have a receiving address so thanks whoever it was and whatever it was for!

2023-03-10 08:16:56 UTC

Congratulations to miner39nDQ9BexEBXpRdkHY1z95CaMDEwh6muPW who solved the 270th solo block at http://solo.ckpool.org with 6.7PH but doesn't appear to have been mining for very long https://explorer.btc.com/btc/block/780112

2023-02-26 20:54:17 UTC

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2023-02-23 12:42:36 UTC

Congratulations to miner
14MooZUhqu3gXPDGC4aUh3AQFKDs3SZ1MW with approximately 733TH who solved the 269th solo block at solo.ckpool.org https://explorer.btc.com/btc/block/777942

2023-02-21 00:19:30 UTC

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Wagyu scotch fillet (aka rib eye), because fat.

2023-02-20 04:03:54 UTC

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Twitter also just informed me I can't keep 2FA without registering and paying for blue.

2023-02-18 22:06:36 UTC

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This is the setting under Privacy and safety. I doubt the bulk of the public would have this enabled.

2023-02-18 21:49:54 UTC

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I can still see your posts and saw the lovely mum & baby photo because I have that option enabled.

2023-02-15 11:25:46 UTC

I wonder if running my own nostr relay would speed up my PC client? They're not quite trivial to set up as far as I can see.