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I am not a security. I am NOT A SECURITY. I AM NOT A SECURITY DR. HAN!!!
Hey fellow Bitcoin enthusiasts, Have you ever dreamed of mining Bitcoin? Well, today is the day. Blockstream has just announced that the Jade hardware wallet can now be used as a Bitcoin miner! Check out our Twitter post for more details: https://twitter.com/Blockstream/status/1642121360385384450 Now, before you start planning your early retirement, there's a tiny catch: The Jade wallet might take approximately 11 trillion years to mine a single block. But hey, Jade does give you 80,000 chances per second to win the lottery - so who knows! In all seriousness, what started as an April Fool’s Joke became a reality and now brings a light-hearted perspective to the world of Bitcoin mining. Of course, the Blockstream Jade remains a top-notch hardware wallet for securing your bitcoin, even if it isn't exactly a mining powerhouse. At the very least, this feature is a fun way to track the bitcoin block height on your device. P.S. If you're not familiar with the Blockstream Jade, it's a fully open source, feature-rich, air-gapped, bitcoin-only hardware wallet. Check out our website to learn more: https://blockstream.com/jade Take a look at some of our users already helping to secure the global hashrate: https://twitter.com/w\_s\_bitcoin/status/1642561326735130630 https://twitter.com/tatumturnup/status/1642510780984709121 https://twitter.com/NimzoBit/status/1642557652969443330 https://twitter.com/FloHodl/status/1642654102088740866 https://twitter.com/satstacker\_21/status/1642427237365366784 And some more awesome projects helping everyone try bitcoin mining: Mining on the GameBoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ckjr9x214c NerdMiner: https://github.com/BitMaker-hub/NerdMiner\_v2 https://github.com/valerio-vaccaro/HAN Jade miner code viewable here: https://github.com/Blockstream/Jade/tree/miner\_all\_0.1.47/components/miner