Bitcoin mining

The early days of bitcoin mining were alot different than they are now.  Back then you had to have knowledge of hardware, Linux, and an assortment of other skillsets.  I practically learned Linux during this period and alot about hardware.  Here's my early miner, which took me about 2-3 months to finally get it running!  I had given up at one point.

Early Miner

Some of the readout from this miner:

Readout

As mining progressed along it has become more sophisticated and powerful.  Mining the coins themselves is also much more difficult and profitability is pretty low but still there.  Here's a recent setup.

Recent Miner

Along with the actual hardware the web interface is also more sophisticated even if my photo is not!  lol

Recent readout

Mt Charleston Burning!

Is RSS Dead?

I recently had switched over from using bookmarks for frequently visited websites to using a RSS news aggregator Feedly.  My bookmarks had really gotten out of control and I migrated everything to feedly.  Now I can quickly go to a website and I'm able to frequent other websites that maybe were bookmarked a long time ago.

This article on Makeusof.com, Is RSS Dead? does a good job summarizing how RSS has made something of a comeback in recent times with Feedly itself growing rapidly.  The crux of the issue lies with ad revenue and how RSS allows for ad-free content.  Companies from Google to Twitter to Mozilla have all dropped support for it for this very reason.  Most likely RSS will evolve into something different but similar.  We shall see!