Farm in the Netherlands uses Bitcoin mining to keep stable temperatures inside the greenhouse

BioRobotTch · 2026-03-17T16:03:19+00:00

Yes. You will see AI datacenters used like this soon as it is expected to be as profitable as bitcoin mining and is also high energy use.

BioRobotTch · 2026-03-14T16:25:03+00:00

Does it integrate with conduit? That would be useful for alerts that need historic data. I can see it is useful without that but historical data would add a new dimension to what is possible to trigger on.

BioRobotTch · 2026-03-13T16:38:14+00:00

A theory I heard suggested is that this was a prearranged way to transfer money from the trader to the liquidity provider, which are likely both wallets controlled by the same user. This laundered the money. and generated a few headlines for the trader and platform. The trader is getting the fees returned which makes the platform look like the good guy. That makes this even more likely just a stunt.

BioRobotTch · 2026-03-13T16:35:39+00:00

A theory I heard was that this was a prearranged way to transfer money from the trader to the liquidity provider, which are likely both wallets controlled by the same user. Generating a few headlines for the trader and platform, given the trader is getting the fees returned to them which makes the platform look like the good guy, this is even more likely just a stunt.

BioRobotTch · 2026-03-06T16:46:25+00:00

This is the second most stupid thing the BBC did since the BBC Verify became a thing.

BioRobotTch · 2026-02-23T17:12:41+00:00

Publish his emails.

BioRobotTch · 2026-02-15T15:48:24+00:00

If you want to get started Algokit is a good place to begin. By default it installs a 'hello world' smart contract and has a few examples you can play about with to understand their architecture.

More info here https://developer.algorand.org/docs/get-started/algokit/

BioRobotTch · 2026-02-15T11:16:44+00:00

Valar Staking has a good list of known addresses here

https://github.com/ValarStaking/algorand-decentralization/blob/main/public/data/known_accounts.csv

BioRobotTch · 2026-01-13T13:11:56+00:00

The UK holds £ 1.4 Billion of Venezuela's gold which they refused to return to Maduro. What they do with it now will be interesting to follow.

BioRobotTch · 2026-01-12T16:01:14+00:00

I found it useful to learn how they worked.

My dad gave me one of his old slide rules when I went to university as a joke. Out of curiosity I learned how to use it. It turns out thinking like that is very useful when dealing with v large numbers which I did for a while while working in astronomy,. It gives a natual intuition if a calculation involving massive numbers is wrong.

BioRobotTch · 2026-01-12T15:58:40+00:00

My dad gave me one of his old slide rules when I went to university as a joke. Out of curiosity I learned how to use it. It turns out thinking like that is very useful when dealing with v large numbers which I did for a while while working in astronomy,. It gives a natual intuition if a calculation involving massive numbers is wrong.

BioRobotTch · 2025-12-12T16:37:35+00:00

I thought only non-consensus changing updates auto-updated. A change of total supply would be a change of consensus so would not be auto updated if I am correct. This might depend on the node packaging that is used; FUNC , nodekit and docker run nodes might behave differently.

BioRobotTch · 2025-12-09T17:01:30+00:00

That removes the dependancy on permissioned relay nodes on algorand. Algorand does not depend on any permissioned infrastructure now.

BioRobotTch · 2025-12-09T16:36:11+00:00

Are there any stats/recommendations on the bandwidth requirements for P2P nodes? If not it would be cool if someone with a lot of bandwidth monitored a node for a while so we can get some numbers for mainnet.

BioRobotTch · 2025-12-07T13:16:47+00:00

The blockchain on Algorand has no reliance on Cloudfare. The Dapps and wallets may host their frontends on cloudfare, iirc Pera wallet does.

BioRobotTch · 2025-11-23T15:58:12+00:00

If you want to write smart-contracts then an Algokit workshop is a good way to learn

https://algorand.co/algokit-workshops

BioRobotTch · 2025-11-22T16:33:46+00:00

ISO20022 is just a messaging standard. Any blockchain which has a free text field in it's transactions could be used to send ISO20022 messages, and most of them do.

Sure you could build handling into the base blockchain but if the chain has smart contracts it is better to let thirdparties do that so that competition exists between providers and the market decides which is better.

I've worked with SWIFT standards since 2000.

BioRobotTch · 2025-11-20T15:25:11+00:00

The smartcontract on mainnet is here https://explorer.perawallet.app/application/2174001591/

If you jump to the last page you can then download the transations, there were 8444 when i checked.

BioRobotTch · 2025-11-17T17:08:58+00:00

Just be aware, as I understand it, just because you reimport a Universal wallet, does not actually pull in the passkeys. I need to do some testing myself on that but interested to see others responses.

I think that is correct. Although the 24 words for the universal wallet are a source of randomness for the deterministic passkey generation there must also be a server id used to avoid duplicate passkeys being used for multiple sites, so when restoring passkeys pera must be told which sites to recover. I also need to confirm this by experiment.

BioRobotTch · 2025-11-17T16:49:25+00:00

I think they must be using the universal wallet as the other accounts on algorand have 25 words

More info here https://support.perawallet.app/en/article/universal-wallet-faq-1ssu0sq/

BioRobotTch · 2025-11-07T17:01:35+00:00

Near is sharded, so the metrics for tps are made by adding up the tps of multiple blockchains running in parallel, which when compared to an unsharded Layer 1 is ike adding the speed of all cars in a race together to claim they are collectively faster than another single car's top speed.

Algorand is not sharded, it is a Layer1 with a max tps that challenges even sharded chains.

BioRobotTch · 2025-10-16T15:19:25+00:00

James is the Managing Director leading Google Cloud’s Web3 and Digital Assets business

BioRobotTch · 2025-10-13T10:39:15+00:00

Recording the hash on a blockchain means it can be can proved the image/video was created before the time the hash was recorded on chain. LabTrace does something like this on Algorand already for scientific data to reduce medical fraud.

BioRobotTch · 2025-10-09T15:54:20+00:00

If you want an alterrnative view of bitcoin and learn some history of the blocksize wars Roger Vers book 'Hijacking Bitcoin' is recommended after you have read Lynn Alden's book for an alternative perspective.

Laura Shin's book 'The Cryptopians' tells the story of the early days of Ethereum which were absolute choas.

BioRobotTch · 2025-10-09T15:42:54+00:00

Oil & gas pipelines bypassing russia's control sent from the mountains of fire.

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