Bitcoin mining difficulty had its biggest drop in a very long time of 7.5% to ~117T. Still insanely high but won't last and will no doubt return to the same level as previously once the weather in Texas becomes inclement. It will also take less time to return to its former self.

Saturn captured in RGB mono 2025-06-10 UTC.

Saturn captured on 2025-06-10 UTC. The rings are now just barely visible.

If it wasn't clear, I will continue to run core relay/mempool rules on the solo pools as I always have for all the technical reasons already outlined in a myriad of other places. By all means feel free to run whatever client you feel is appropriate or mine wherever you like, but I implore you to read arguments instead of listening to them for the person delivering verbal messages can have more influence on your decision making than it can in text.

solo.ckpool.org and eusolo.ckpool.org have had trivial updates and new new bitcoin daemons and restarted uneventfully. Mine on!

Saturn in composite colour infrared captured this morning, 2025-06-10 UTC.

Congratulations to miner bc1qa8r4up9nchkvdnhcf9feexv2jfantrk48ef374 who recently ramped up hashrate for solving the 300th block solved at

Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining

!

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I've updated the stats pages for

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and

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to display SI unit prefixes.

Saturn captured 2025-05-18.

Venus captured in ultraviolet and infrared this morning 2025-05-14. Venus is plain white in visible light but a composite colour UV+IR image can show up cloud details.