Jack Dorsey’s payments company, Block, is building its own bitcoin mining system - It was reported previously that Dorsey was working with Gridless to setup Bitcoin mining operations in several African countries. He's also been designing his own 3nm silicon chips tailored for mining and creating a mining rig product to help increase mining decentralisation globally, making it much easier for anyone to setup mining operations. Pretty cool. cnbc.com #
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden’s desk - Looks like this time the Tik Tok ban is going to go through. They've packaged it inside an emergency bill that gives emergency aid to countries at war including Ukraine. theverge.com #
US Senate prepares to give final approval to $95bn aid bills for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan - Ukraine is to get around $60 billion, which is huge, especially when compared to the UK which gave $500 million, though they did include a bunch of military arms and supplies. A pretty big statement that they will defend democratic values globally. theguardian.com #
TSMC aims to produce ultra-advanced 1.6-nm chips by 2026 - It's the first time I've read about sub 3nm chips. I'm kind of suprised they've skipped 2nm. There's not much room after 1nm. Are they going to go sub 1nm? I know there are lots of plans to update chip architectures to be 3D stacked, and connect many pieces together to form bigger chips. The whole chip ecosystem is going through a bit of a renaiscence. Incredible that this should happen at the exact same time AI is becoming a thing. What are the chances after all these years of uninterrupted continuous improvements that these trajectories should intersect here? asia.nikkei.com #
Wow things are really dire. Not sure I'm going to make it until my build minutes reset. That's 4 days away. Nearly just choked on my last teaspoon of water. Hardly any sleep last night. Constant bullying from gang stalkers. Not much else to add. Personal morale very low indeed. #
They've put up war path banners all along the route to the internet place, but nowhere else. Large 10 foot vertical banners that hang from trees and posts. It's quite a sight. Large gangs of old people waiting on corners, vigorously pointing me in the direction they want me to go in with enormous determination. People at the internet place, where I can only stand, telling me to 'up up'.
They are of course not at all on the war path, only me it seems. Could there ever be a better example of everything-is-your-fault? The mind boggles.
They are still starving and thirsting me.
Just another day where it's all my fault. #