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Bitcoin is highly divisible. When I say $100/day what I really mean is something around 0.0016 BTC per day. This number fluctuates a lot so it’s best to look at the average over a week or month. The best way to learn IMO is to try it yourself with your gaming computer. I personally use a platform called NiceHash (not sponsored, nor am I advocating for them, there are alternatives) which pays out in Bitcoin. Try it ou…
So you are part of a collective then - you have a small mining/compute farm in your home that contributes results to a much larger group?
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#202Open Source Hardware! Specifically a USB Oscilloscope: https://espotek.com/labrador Sell maybe $1k/mo of these through the website and another $3k through Amazon at a margin of around 50%. The biggest things that I see a lot of people get wrong in the hardware business is the importance of manufacturing and logistics. It doesn't matter that you're constantly producing new and improved revisions of your board if you'r…
Getting a 404, the URL is case-sensitive: https://espotek.com/labrador works.
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That’s a $30,000 rig at least. So 300 days of mining before you just break even. I’m sure that in 300 days it will only be able to mine a fraction of what it does now due to increasing difficulty. I’m not seeing how this truly works out.
This ends when ETH2 arrives.
Why would miners just move somewhere else?
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#204I have three: https://pikaso.me which lets people post their tweets on Instagram https://postsheet.com for sending emails / SMS from data in Google Sheets or Airtable https://volt.fm for viewing Spotify stats and discovering new music
pikaso is a fantastic product, well done.
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#205My little hardware book, Computer Engineering for Babies launched on Kickstarter a few months ago and blew my mind by raising almost $250k. It’s a simple book with buttons and LEDs to demonstrate different logic gates. I just shipped out the first batch of books a week ago and now waiting for the next batch of books. It’s gotten pretty demanding pretty quickly but I’m really excited about it. I’m hoping I can soon em…
Curious if you were aware of the Baby University books from Chris Ferrie, and if so, worried about potential lawsuits?
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#206I built an API/IAAS (sort of), https://approximated.app, to make it really easy to connect end user's custom domains to any web app.
It offers automatic SSL for unlimited custom domains and subdomains through dedicated reverse proxy clusters. Each comes with a dedicated anycast IP address so that your users can point an apex A record at it and be geo routed to the nearest region of your cluster.
You can add virtual hosts for domains, subdomains, or specific paths through a really simple API and it'll handle SSL and verification automatically in a few seconds during the first request.
It's been really fun to work on, plenty of hard problems to solve and it's been really useful to people, including myself. I had a baby boy this summer so I've had roughly zero time to market it in any way but there's still tens of thousands of domains running through approximated clusters now so it's been growing a little bit at a time on its own.
Current future plans are for edge caching (nearly done), ddos mitigation, and then hopefully something more interesting like colocating serverless workers or distributed apps maybe.
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#207I’m writing a five book series over iOS development. It’s done just over $100,000k since May:
bestinclassiosapp.com
Aside from that, I hope to ship another app next year.
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#208I built http://inspect.dev, a new developer tool for macOS, Linux, and Windows to inspect and debug your mobile web apps and websites on iOS devices.
Crossed $1000+ MRR pretty quickly and it's been growing organically since.
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I hate what you do (the very idea of all those KWs going to solve sudokus to get monopoly money) but at the same respect you. In the end if someone buys, why not sell.
You could say I’m “wasting energy” for “monopoly money”, but that monopoly money gets converted to fiat dollars, which I use to pay taxes and feed my family passively while I’m at my actual job, or sleeping. If instead of mining I were to work a labour intensive job as a side-gig, moonlighting, driving there, how much more or less energy would that “waste” on gas? At least I’m recycling my exhaust heat into heat for…
I'm curious if you've ever worked out a ballpark "hourly pay" for your crypto mining operations. By that, I mean:
(hours spent on research, hardware acquisition, setup, and maintenance) / (net profit, after accounting for hardware depreciation and obsolescence)
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#210I am running https://excel-converter.com that converts Excel files into HTML tables.
I don't see any ads on mobile. How does this generate revenue?