1. Reflections on industrial mining after my first larger conference
   • Industrial miners, at least the representatives of them that @jasonb talked to at Bitcoin 2024, aren't aware of the troubling trend of mining pool centralization.
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2. love, projects, women, art, trump - my reactions to Bitcoin Nashville
   • @plebpoet proves their Bitcoin conference expectations wrong.
   • 3.5k sats \ 10 comments \ @plebpoet
3. New website for tracking robosats stats
   • The darknet peer to peer lightning exchange robosats stopped updating their parabolic stats after federating, so @supertestnet made a new stats site.
   • 3.8k sats \ 36 comments \ @supertestnet
4. Trump Promises - Bitcoin Nashville 2024
   • Trump made a lot of bitcoin-related promises he likely won't keep, but as @kepford points out, his need to make promises to bitcoiners is proof that bitcoin is winning.
   • 2.9k sats \ 55 comments \ @kepford
5. Any tips for next adoption move as a merchant?
   • IVPN has accepted bitcoin for years, but @viktorv wants to know if there's anything else they should be doing.
   • 3k sats \ 50k boost \ 27 comments \ @viktorv

• Electoral fraud in Venezuela - This is how the elections were experienced
• PROTESTS IN VENEZUELA AFTER ELECTORAL FRAUD
• Protests in Venezuela after electoral fraud. Day I
• PROTESTS IN VENEZUELA AFTER ELECTORAL FRAUD - DAY II (part 1/2)
• PROTESTS IN VENEZUELA AFTER ELECTORAL FRAUD - DAY II (part 2/2)
• PROTESTS IN VENEZUELA AFTER ELECTORAL FRAUD - DAY III (part 1/2)
• PROTESTS IN VENEZUELA AFTER ELECTORAL FRAUD - DAY III (part 2/2)
• PROTESTS IN VENEZUELA AFTER ELECTORAL FRAUD - DAY IV
• PROTESTS IN VENEZUELA AFTER ELECTORAL FRAUD - DAY V (PART 1/2)
• PROTESTS IN VENEZUELA AFTER ELECTORAL FRAUD - DAY V (PART 2/2)

• I felt a VERY weird sensation, but don't know what caused it.
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• What is masculinity?
• Bitcoin’s Proof of Work matters
• Count your blessings when you're high in the sky
• Why Are On Chain Transaction Fees So Low Now?
• Analysis after a day of letting the Trump speech set in

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• Allow Personal and General Hot Topic Feeds
• Nudges for SN
• Golden Oldies #6
• Stacker News Live #130: On the Road in Nashville with Evan Kaloudis

“Big Ben” is Not the Famous Clock Tower, but Rather the Name of the Great Bell Inside the Tower.

If you’ve ever been to London, or even seen a picture of London, you’ve probably seen the giant clock tower at the corner of the Palace of Westminster. This tower is one of London’s major icons, ranking right up there with red double-decker buses, the London Eye, and Platform 9 ¾.

Contrary to popular belief, the clock tower itself is not named “Big Ben”. Rather, it is named “Elizabeth Tower”, after Queen Elizabeth II; named such during her Diamond Jubilee (the 2012 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne). Before that, it was just called “Clock Tower”. So why is it so often called “Big Ben”? That is due to the great bell inside the tower that chimes the hour out and goes by that name. Over time this has morphed into many calling the clock tower itself that even today, despite the recent, very public, name change.

...read more at todayifoundout.com

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