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  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.
    • 13.6k sats \ 22 comments \ @jasonb
  2. love, projects, women, art, trump - my reactions to Bitcoin Nashville
  3. New website for tracking robosats stats
  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
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“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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  5. @Undisciplined: 51.4k sats spent

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  5. @TNStacker: 287 days

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