How To Solo Mine Bitcoin Using Blockstream Satellite
Using Blockstream Satellite, this guide demonstrates how to mine bitcoin by yourself without placing trust in a pool.A version of this article was originally published on Medium.In light of some recent awesome events in the Bitcoin mining sphere, I was inspired to set up my own small, four million hashes per second (MH/s) solo mining operation and see how I could improve it. A couple of the aspects that I thought could use some work are related to connectivity and in making my setup the most “pure” in the sense of decentralization and trustlessness.So, I initially began digging into how....
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