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📉 Bitcoin's 'Mempool' Nearly Empty as Prices Trade Near Lifetime Highs
... although Bitcoin's price remains high, the evidence is the Bitcoin network is dying as transaction volume collapses and miners struggle
#bitcoin #crypto

BTC News: Bitcoin's 'Mempool' Nearly Empty as Prices Trade Near Lifetime Highs. What Next?
Almost all of Bitcoin's actual users have gone away, one observer said, warning of a major crisis.

Substituting Proof of Work in Blockchain with Training-Verified Collaborative Model Computation
Mohammad Ishzaz Asif Rafid, Morsalin Sakib
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12138 https…

Substituting Proof of Work in Blockchain with Training-Verified Collaborative Model Computation
Bitcoin's Proof of Work (PoW) mechanism, while central to achieving decentralized consensus, has long been criticized for excessive energy use and hardware inefficiencies \cite{devries2018bitcoin, truby2018decarbonizing}. This paper introduces a hybrid architecture that replaces Bitcoin's traditional PoW with a centralized, cloud-based collaborative training framework. In this model, miners contribute computing resources to train segments of horizontally scaled machine learning models on prepro…

New York Bitcoin Miners Are Buying Up Power Plants—and Communities Are Fighting Back - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10052025/new-york-bitcoin-mines-buying-up-power-plants/

#Indonesien wollte bis zum Jahr 2040 komplett auf erneuerbare Energien umgestellt haben. Aber nun haben sie festgestellt, dass der Plan aufgeht. Stattdessen wollen sie schon 2035 zu 100% auf Erneuerbare setzen.

Almost 150 Ukrainian miners trapped underground after Russian attack in Donetsk Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/almost-ukrainian-miners-trapped-underground.html

I just realized that OSS, as you know it, is dead.
The only hope you have of growing a community is to spend your time building docs that appeal to generative AI models in hopes they spit out the name of your library as a solution.
Megacorps and organizations flush with cash and resources will out-generate you every time, as they will have a direct line to AI vendor data miners.

An Overlapping Coalition Game Approach for Collaborative Block Mining and Edge Task Offloading in MEC-assisted Blockchain Networks
Licheng Ye, Zehui Xiong, Lin Gao, Dusit Niyato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06031

An Overlapping Coalition Game Approach for Collaborative Block Mining and Edge Task Offloading in MEC-assisted Blockchain Networks
Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology that enhances the efficiency of mobile blockchain networks, by enabling miners, often acted by mobile users (MUs) with limited computing resources, to offload resource-intensive mining tasks to nearby edge computing servers. Collaborative block mining can further boost mining efficiency by allowing multiple miners to form coalitions, pooling their computing resources and transaction data together to mine new blocks collaboratively. Therefore…

"Caught between a fossil fuel past and a green future, China’s coal miners chart an uncertain path"
#China #FossilFuels

Trump said Mexico would pay for his wall.
He promised to put coal miners back to work.
He said he wouldn't cut Medicaid.
▶️ He's Lied to MAGA before. Why Is Epstein Different?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_dgU9bK-Tx0&si=jCh1NidGFf3umLVI

Nine takeaways on Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Munduruku lands https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/nine-takeaways-on-brazils-crackdown-on-illegal-mining-in-munduruku-lands/

Nine takeaways on Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Munduruku lands
Mongabay published a five-part series delving into Brazil’s ongoing operation to evict illegal gold miners from Munduruku Indigenous territories, deep in the Amazon Rainforest. While there has been some disruption to mining in the region, Munduruku organizations told Mongabay the operation is not yet completely successful, with small groups of illegal miners, or garimpeiros, still […]

In this book, Theoharis introduces us to the people leading the movement to end poverty, including:
multiracial groups of homeless people rising up from the streets and seizing empty, federally-owned homes;
mothers on welfare shutting down entire city blocks and going toe-to-toe with some of the most powerful people in the country;
farmworkers busting modern-day slave rings and winning living wages from multinational fast-food companies; and
coal miners, veterans,…

Good Morning #Canada
This week, in 2022, gold miners in the Yukon discovered a near complete, mummified baby woolly mammoth. The Yukon has a world-renowned fossil record of ice age animals, but mummified remains with skin and hair are rarely unearthed. Geologists, with the Yukon Geological Survey and the University of Calgary, traveled 6 hours to the site and retrieved the remains less than an hour before a storm struck.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Prehistoric
https://youtu.be/jR2ZmvckneQ?si=xD1x0GrlLSelVS5y

#shame

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Johan Johansson, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Dalia Stasevska:
🎵 They Being Dead Yet Speaketh, Part 3 (Miners' Hymns)
#JohanJohansson #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #DaliaStasevska

Performance analysis of common browser extensions for cryptojacking detection
Dmitry Tanana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02083 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.020…

Performance analysis of common browser extensions for cryptojacking detection
This paper considers five extensions for Chromium-based browsers in order to determine how effective can browser-based defenses against cryptojacking available to regular users be. We've examined most popular extensions - MinerBlock, AdGuard AdBlocker, Easy Redirect && Prevent Cryptojacking, CoinEater and Miners Shield, which claim to be designed specifically to identify and stop illegal cryptocurrency mining. An empirically confirmed dataset of 373 distinct cryptojacking-infected websites whic…