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The future of composting, 3D Sensing with Wifi, Bitcoin Mining, and 7 Figure MRR from a basement
Hamilton Evans
January 23, 2023
Yo. Welcome to Week 2.
Wifi Sensing
Researchers created accurate 3D models of rooms (and the people in them) using nothing but Wifi routers. Kinda creepy, super cool.
Essentially using the Wifi signal as radar they were able to do this using nothing but your usual routers. (Also a side note, but radar is an acronym for radio detection and ranging).
Another @ValKatayev Thread
2/2 on Val. Another brilliant thread. Just so so good. If this first Tweet doesn't hook you enough, spend 5 minutes reading on because I promise it only gets better.
At 25, I built a company that controlled 2x as many eyeballs as Facebook at the time.
500 MILLION people monthly.
It made $10 MILLION in profit the first year with $0 funding.
How I built it step-by-step, and some valuable tactics you can apply in your business: 🧵
— Val Katayev (@ValKatayev)
8:32 PM • Jan 20, 2023
A Cool New Company
Trying to fix the issue of food waste, Mill has built a custom trash bin for your compost, which "dries, shrinks, and de-stinks everything overnight". For $33/month, you get the bin for free, as well as personal impact tracking, and a mail back pathway to farms.
Maybe a bit expensive? But pretty cool nonetheless.
Something New: BTC Mining
No clue how Bitcoin mining works? Me neither. Heres a summary.
Think of miners as individuals gambling at a casino, each with a 1000 sided dice
They roll their die as quickly as possible, trying to get a number less than 10 (which will take a long time)
As more gamblers join however, the time it takes to hit a number less than 10 gets reduced
Once somebody rolls a number less than 10, all gamblers at the table can look down and verify the number
This lucky gambler takes the prize money and the next round begins
More rolls of dice = higher hashrate, prize money = new bitcoins issued (~6.25 per block)
Since miners can join or leave the network whenever, the difficulty of mining (number the roll has to be under) is adjusted every 2 weeks to ensure blocks take 10 minutes on average to mine
Hopefully this helped a little with your understanding. Its less of a "complex math problem" as it is a guess and check using the SHA256 algorithm. In all fairness, its meant to be confusing.
