(2024-06-10) Wind of change (recent news) ----------------------------------------- OK, I've got nothing in particular to talk about today (JJY writeup still pending, I know) but the past week has been tough and this one is going to be even more difficult for me. Besides work, there are essentially two things I'm focused on right now: energy independence and migration to Kaspa. The latter shouldn't be a surprise as Kaspa is now in a very good state: it's PoW but with tokens coming (KRC20), it's very fast and fully decentralized. Even at a relatively small loss, I chose to abandon Mina and everything else (except, of course, Monero) in favor of it. And I surely don't regret it as of now. When it comes to Kaspa, I'm more of a stacker than anyone else in my previous classification. As for the former, the very first stage of my plan is complete and a power inverter with a 6 kWh backup battery has been installed. Think "Powerwall for the poor". The next stages are going to be a 800W wind turbine (hopefully done within this week) and a solar panel array (hopefully done within this month). I'm also going to run a small Kaspa miner ASIC (IceRiver KS0 Pro, only has ~100W consumption) purely on the energy collected from the wind turbine. By the way, it's not about ROI, it's about getting some experience with ASIC mining and slow but sure accumulation of the currency that I'm counting upon in the future. Besides, we shouldn't forget about e.g. Sedra and Bugna that can be mined using the same KHeavyHash algorithm but are located at much earlier stages of the curve. All this, however, is a part of a bigger plan that's going to be revealed when the time comes. Right now, it's more about maintaining peace of mind than anything else. --- Luxferre ---