We all know the idea of separating money from the state. The Myth of the Rule of Law by John Hasnas was the first time I saw someone try the harder cut IRL (non-fiction): separating law / lawmaking from the state. (The real first time I ran into the idea was in Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh…

First published July 5, 2018 Came across this essay on the internets, hope it educates you the reader as much as it educated me. I admit I used to believe in Bitcoin. I was one of its most naïve and vehement apologists to friends, family members, and complete strangers (online). This was all before…

Okay so this one looks like a bigger home chip. It is not. Socket is the plug on the motherboard. The chip only fits the board made for that plug. A home Ryzen and a Threadripper do not share a plug. The Threadripper generations do not share a plug with each other either. A Ryzen 9 3950X is 16…

Okay so this one confused me for a while. I keep seeing it confuse people who just started hashing. Your chip has cores. The OS and the miner also show threads. On a Ryzen those counts are not the same. A 6-core chip shows 12 threads. A 16-core chip shows 32. The extras are SMT. That is AMD's name…