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"The network difficulty averages the Block pace to 1 Block every 10m minutes,"

Correction typo:

The network difficulty averages the Block pace to 1 Block every 10 minutes

"This is really exciting now, this could very well be Qbt. If it , hang on to your hats !"

It's unbelievable how you guys inflate anything as if it's related to QBT, I think we safely assume, with 99.9% certainty, that Foundry USA aren't currently partnered with QBT.

Jambone, the links I've posted show the entire network live BTC Block feed. The network difficulty averages the Block pace to 1 Block every 10m minutes, which is 144 Blocks per day, so it isn't difficult to see what's going on. Foundry USA (DCG Group) is one of the main players and it was probably them that caused the recent Binance stoppages due to the introduction of transaction fee's around April time.

"Expat, please have more respect for flaccy"

If you think that's amusing spinofmandy, you need to go back to comedy school. I'm not even sure how you connected Expats post to me, since I'm neither a teenager or a scribbler.

If you look at the links I've supplied, it's clear that the "Unknown" Twitter is referring to is Foundry USA.

https://btc.com/stats/pool?pool_mode=day

Indeed, according to some on here.

Here's a different BTC Block live feed, Foundry shows up as Unknown on the previous link I posted.

https://explorer.btc.com/btc/blocks

I think I post useful information and provide links to relevant sites where necessary, not hearsay and twitter quotes.

If people want to dispute what I say, then I'll read what they say and correct myself if required. It shouldn't matter whether I'm invested, or not, as long as the information I post is correct and useful.

Post on the Lloyds forum as much as you want, it wasn't me who told you to go away.

I choose to post where I wish, as far as I know there's nothing in the forum rules stating you have to own specific stocks in order to post opinions.

I don't use Twitter, but it's clear from the Latest BTC Block feed that F2pool is underperforming Antpool by a long way.

Here are the stats for the big players:

https://btc.com/stats/pool?pool_mode=day

F2pool is coming 3rd in the last 24 hours, and over the last year. Antpool have also outperformed Foundry USA over the last 24 hours.

Here are the current Blocks as they're processed:

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc

Antpool are currently outperforming F2pool

In the case of Asic boost, users have a choice whether or not to enable the feature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rldrYK_2R9c

If QBT's Ultra boost works as advertised the mining pool route would probably be the way to go and the users would soon return a verdict on how good it is. I'm not sure why QBT haven't already mined live BTC to prove their software, since they would have had nothing to lose by doing so.

The BTC mining network is currently at Block 791,225 and I believe the next halving is at Block 840,000 and at the current reward of 6.25 Bitcoin per Block, QBT are missing out on a potential percentage of around $8 Billion before the next halving, at the current Bitcoin price, assuming it works as advertised.

"We have also considered the level of prices under Equinox 2, and concerns among some market participants about Openreach’s practice of discussing and developing discounts with retail providers. Having carefully assessed information from providers and altnets, we do not have concerns that warrant further investigation at this time.

Openreach has informed us that – in response to concerns raised – it plans to make certain commitments regarding its future conduct, including not having any current plans to change its Equinox 2 rental prices and no intention to initiate further changes until at least 31 March 2026. This may provide further clarity for altnets and their investors. However, we have not relied on these commitments in reaching our conclusions."

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2023/decision-on-openreach-equinox-2-pricing-offer

Ignore last post wrong forum lol.

"We have also considered the level of prices under Equinox 2, and concerns among some market participants about Openreach’s practice of discussing and developing discounts with retail providers. Having carefully assessed information from providers and altnets, we do not have concerns that warrant further investigation at this time.

Openreach has informed us that – in response to concerns raised – it plans to make certain commitments regarding its future conduct, including not having any current plans to change its Equinox 2 rental prices and no intention to initiate further changes until at least 31 March 2026. This may provide further clarity for altnets and their investors. However, we have not relied on these commitments in reaching our conclusions."

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2023/decision-on-openreach-equinox-2-pricing-offer

I've been following the threads suggesting that QBT will manufacture a 5nm chip, so I thought I'd check out how much it costs and disregard any timeline. I had no idea how much it costs, but a quick search and I found this:

"There are many clever tricks that are being used to lower costs of designing that chip, but the biggest hinderances to bringing that design to market is the cost of a mask set. On a foundry process node, at 90nm to 45nm, mask sets cost on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars. At 28nm it moves beyond $1M. With 7nm, the cost increases beyond $10M, and now, as we cross the 3nm barrier, mask sets will begin to push into the $40M range."

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/the-dark-side-of-the-semiconductor

It's an Off Book trade, the Bid/Ask price doesn't apply. It's neither a Buy or sell, it's just a trade.

100 Million shares at 147p valued at £147,000,000

tradeTime price volume tradeValue type

17:01:43 147 100000000 147000000 Off-Book

"Its because Altice have said they don't want a takeover"

Who's to say he isn't accumulating stock on behalf of someone else? He now owns a quarter of BT and I don't think it's because he likes the dividends. If there's no under the radar move on the company by an entity, then he must see BT as being incredibly undervalued, either way the market isn't behaving as you'd expect. This morning's share price movement makes no sense, but I'm not complaining too much as I'm looking at buying some more BT as soon as my ISA Lloyds dividends are available for investment.

It's no good if It's unavailable for withdrawal or reinvestment, which it wasn't when I looked before last post.

"Divi money in Halifax account"

I'm with the Halifax, the dividends have arrived in the standard share dealing account, but still not showing in our ISA's.