MHMatt Howardinsolosatoshi.hashnode.dev·Mar 4 · 9 min readWhy Open-Source Bitcoin Mining Hardware Is the Most Important Fight You're Not Paying Attention ToBitcoin has an infrastructure problem. Not a code problem. Not a protocol problem. A hardware problem. The network processes over 900 EH/s of computational power every day, securing trillions of dolla00
MHMatt Howardinsolosatoshi.hashnode.dev·Feb 19 · 13 min readThe Engineering Case for Bitcoin Hashrate Heating: Thermodynamics, Efficiency, and the Numbers That MatterEvery watt of electricity consumed by any device becomes heat. This is not a design flaw. It is the first law of thermodynamics. The question is whether you do something useful with the energy before 00
MHMatt Howardinsolosatoshi.hashnode.dev·Feb 18 · 4 min readYour Cloud Provider Doesn’t Work for You. It Works on You.Every month, you pay $60 to $100 for the privilege of storing your data on someone else’s computer. Google One. iCloud. A password manager. Three streaming services. A VPN. A backup tool you forgot you had. You call these subscriptions. The companies...00
MHMatt Howardinsolosatoshi.hashnode.dev·Feb 18 · 6 min readHome Bitcoin Miners Are Finding $300K Blocks with Devices That Cost Less Than a PS5In October 2025, a man plugged a cluster of open-source Bitcoin miners into his home network, pointed them at his own self-hosted node, and walked away. Weeks later, his devices found Bitcoin Block #920,440. The reward was 3.141 BTC, worth approximat...00
