[This is] the inaugural edition of the Braiins Insights [Twitter Newsletter], a monthly note sent to all Slush Pool miners and Braiins Insights users with data, insights, and news that’s important to miners.

Here’s our recap of what matters in mining from the past month.

Braiins launched its Farm Proxy in April, a new software tool to help solve many of the challenges faced by large scale miners. The hashrate aggregation proxy is a simple way or miners to optimize and manage their farms.

MicroBT unveiled its new Whatsminer hardware, the M50 series.
Canaan also announced a new machine in its A12 series.

Blockstream and Block (formerly Square) announced their planned mining center powered with Tesla solar and battery technology
Riot also announced a new 1 gigawatt expansion in Navarro County, Texas.

Oklahoma lawmakers are taking the opposite approach, pushing to pass tax incentives for miners.

The 19 millionth bitcoin was mined. …only 2 million left!
Mining difficulty recorded its third downward adjustment of the year, dropping -1.4%.
The following adjustment on April 27 pushed difficulty to a record high.