Tesla really fires me up sometimes.😡🧵 I have a customer who's the ~3rd owner of a 2013 Model S 60. At some point years ago the battery pack was swapped under warranty with a 90 pack. It wasn't software limited. It was effectively made into a 90 by Tesla. Years went by. (1/*)

Honestly, this is pretty f*cked up. Guy had no way to know that this was going to be done by Tesla. They basically robbed him & are demanding a ransom to get back what he had before. That's just wrong. @Tesla @elonmusk - Do better on this and make it right. DM for VIN. (7/7)

Just to be clear, IMO if Tesla swaps a battery under warranty with a larger one because they don't have the right one, and they don't software lock it before it leaves the service center... well, that's on them. They can't play takebacksies years later, remotely, with no warning.

Furious, he demands they restore it back to the way it was, and they refuse. "We can unlock it for $4,500." 😡 This guy bought a car, & years later Tesla reaches in remotely with no warning and literally cuts his usable range by a third! (I confirmed story w/logs) (4/*)

Bitcoin Core developers are about to merge a change that turns Bitcoin into a worthless altcoin, and no one seems to care to do anything about it. I've voiced objections, lost sleep over this, and despite clear community rejection of the PR it's moving. github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/p…

I want to drive home how impossible "Sudden Unintended Acceleration" is in a Tesla, why any issue with the autopilot/FSD system can't do this, and a few other myths and technical aspects of this whole thing in a thread.🧵 (Which ended up longer than expected.)

If I'm pressing the accelerator, the car should do what I tell it to do no matter what. It shouldn't matter if there's 100 children in front of the car, it shouldn't override the driver's manual input under any circumstances. On AP/FSD/Cruise/etc that's different. So, BS test.

Imagine walking out to your car to find it's now 1/3rd as good as it was 15 minutes ago, and Tesla making it out like this is a good thing! They fixed the problem! What do you do? He tried for a while with them with no progress. (5/*)

Later on, while the car is parked in his driveway, Tesla calls him to tell him that they found and fixed a configuration mistake with his car. They remotely software locked the car to be a 60 again, despite having been a 90 for years. He now has ~80 miles less range. (3/*)

To be extra clear, I don't post this stuff because I hate Tesla or anything. In fact, it's just the opposite. I hate seeing Tesla derail themselves with this kind of nonsense.

Just to add, the guy is way more of a good sport about this than I would be. He's joking that this must be him needing to do his part for Musk's finance plan to buy Twitter. $4500 is about 0.00001% of the Twitter sale. 🤣

I try to help, but without completely disconnecting the car from Tesla, when I change it back to a 90 their "teleforce" bot reaches in remotely and flips it back to a 60 within moments. There's hacky ways around this, but none are ideal. Tesla won't help him at all. (6/*)

Wow, hi everyone. 👋🏻 Some confusion in replies. No one hacked the car. Hard+software changes were 100% Tesla. Tesla made a *mistake* years ago when they didn't lock it to a 60. The issue is with them attempting to correct _their mistake_, remotely, years + two owners later.

Car is sold twice since, and now has a new owner (my customer). It says 90, badged 90, has 90-type range. He has the car for a few months, goes in and does a paid MCU2 upgrade at Tesla after the 3G shutdown. All goes well. The upgrade is done, car is working fine. (2/*)

PSA: Stop driving Teslas through high water. Seriously. I don't care what Elon says: They're not boats and you will regret it. A client recently referenced @elonmusk claiming that Teslas could be used as a boat for a short period as "proof" we must be wrong about his issue.😐

While I don't think it's ideal to need a huge social media push to get things accomplished, thanks to the momentum this thread has generated it seems like we've got a path forward with Tesla towards getting this taken care of the right way. Thanks to those who've reached out!❤️

Claim: The brakes get disabled and the driver can't stop! Reality: False. The brakes are still a completely mechanical system in all Teslas, and function even with no power if you press the brake pedal. The brakes are also more than strong enough to overpower the motors...

Was digging through old stuff trying to find something, and ran across this video of a Tesla drive unit on my old test bench fighting against just the parking brake, not even the main brakes. Notice that the wheels don't turn. So much for sudden unintended acceleration... lol

I feel like this is more mundane on Tesla's part than many are making it out to be. A mistake was made years ago. An employee recently discovered and "fixed" it. Their normal pack unlock pricing is stated, etc. Terrible communication and customer service, but nefarious? Nah.

On my side, I run a company that pretty much exclusively works with Tesla cars and Tesla owners (maybe worth a follow and a look, while you're here). I'm not a fanboy or hater. I'm just realistic. They do something dumb, I point it out. Something awesome? Yeah, I note that too.

In the past month I've done repairs/replacements on over a dozen @Tesla MCUv1 units for customers suffering from eMMC flash failure. @elonmusk, you really need to tell the engineers to fix the logging wear in /var. It's literally killing a huge percentage of these units. 😐

FSD rant. Still at a loss to as to how some can say Tesla FSD is so amazing. I've now tried this on 10+ diff vehicles, in different areas (including areas people claim it works well in), and it's still pretty much useless for me. It does *NOTHING* well EXCEPT lane centering.

... and the brakes can't be "disabled." The self-driving features can only command to apply braking. They can't command to "unapply" braking. Brake return is a spring mechanism, as all FSD/AP can do is press the pedal just like you can as the driver. Return is 100% mechanical.

I'm glad I'm not the only one debunking weird "my car did this crazy thing all on its own" claims. Driver error. Every. Single. Time.

Following up: This customer has his full 90 back as of this morning. 🥳 Another customer in a similar boat is also in touch with Tesla and should be getting taken care of by the end of the week. I'm hoping this helps drives some policy improvements on their side! 🤞🏻

I've been seeing a lot of my customers running into the same issues over and over with official Tesla Service. Issues are being *grossly* misdiagnosed. I know of at least 5 instances now where Tesla has told a customer "You need a new HV battery" when the issue is unrelated.🧵

Alright, @Tesla this is ridiculous. After the latest update autopilot asked me to hold the wheel *15 times in 8 minutes* on a clear highway stretch, regardless of actual hand location. This is now completely useless. 😡 #FindAnotherSolution @elonmusk

I can't believe this is being touted as a fix. You can't replace individual modules in an S/X pack. There's no way to match them well enough for a long term fix. Might last a few months, but will invariably die again. Have tried it a half-dozen times. Best run was about a year.

Blast from the past. Tesla firmware v5.8.8. (About 10 years old) I absolutely love it. 😅

*grumble* ... So yeah, this happened this morning. Dash cam to the rescue. Probably totaled. Both front quarters and doors, left rear quarter, both fascias, etc etc, all damaged. 😐😠 No injuries, fortunately. #DashCam #Tesla #Crash #CarAccident

I've been blocked from the Bitcoin Github... for the crime of .... something? I posted that they seem to be moving quickly to rush this change, and pointed out that the maintainer of the DNS seed is currently unable to comment (per the quoted thread)... and I'm blocked. No warning, nothing. I've been willing to give them a lot of slack, but kind of ridiculous that folks like Greg Maxwell can openly fling unfounded personal attacks in the repo while I get banned for asking them to slow down and lock a contentious thread for a few days at least until Luke returns. Crazy.

Claim: Some error in the motor/AP/FSD/CAN bus/etc can make the car accelerate out of control! Reality: No, it definitely can not. First, the self drive system commands movement by telling the rest of the car essentially "I'd like to get X far in Y amount of time." It doesn't...

Did my first Tesla FSD drive with some GoPros setup and it tried to kill me even more times than anticipated on an easy ~10 mile drive. Tried to run head-on into a pickup truck, pulled out into traffic when cars were coming, etc. Will put this all together later and post. 🤖🚗

52 days. That's all it took for a non-Bitcoin project to co-opt Bitcoin Core's development and direction. If that doesn't terrify you, it should. If such an insignificant shitcoin entity can shift Bitcoin Core's development so easily with so little influence, despite massive community push back... imagine what will happen when more powerful folks learn how easy it is to derail Bitcoin Core's development? 52 days ago, Bitcoin Core development at least pretended to have principles. 52 days ago, Bitcoin still had a shot at becoming the best money with Bitcoin Core as the reference implementation. 52 days ago, Bitcoin users still thought they had a say in Bitcoin Core development. 52 days ago, Bitcoin felt unstoppable. Today, with the merge of #32406, Bitcoin Core decided it wanted none of that. Us Bitcoiners? We are the shitcoin now. "Welcome to Shitcoin Cruise Lines, former Bitcoiners! This is your Captain speaking, the Bitcoin Core collective corporation, complete with public marketing branch, brought to you by today's sponsor, [shitcoin of the day]. Oh, that water that's flooding the decks one by one? Just ignore that. Part of ongoing 'improvements'!" The question now is, do we just go down with this ship? Or do we throw the people drilling holes in the boat overboard and still try to save it? Personally, I'm out of energy on this fight. It's up to Bitcoin users to take a stand against the nonsense and prevent Bitcoin Core from killing Bitcoin. If the users can't do that, then we're lost anyway so what's the point? If users can't do that, then we were never serious about fixing money in the first place.

This thread is on 🔥, and I'm getting a ton of messages about it everywhere. I don't think there's any way I'll be able to answer _everyone_, but will do my best. 🥵

Solid rebuttal! The amazing points you've made against my arguments are so astounding that I have to drop to my knees and bow in praise at the sheer magnificence of your clear and indisputable superiority to me in this debate. ...... /s

So the BS sudden unintended acceleration claims are front and center again... *sigh* Seriously, Teslas do NOT have a sudden unintended acceleration issue. The engineering here is spot on. They have people not wanting to accept responsibility for their screw ups, plus clickbait.

This is still being jammed through by Bitcoin Core. Locking out the users and community from participating in the discussion of this PR and calling their participation "spam" while simultaneously endorsing unlimited spam on Bitcoin is incredibly ironic. Ditch Core. Run Knots.

This photo from Tesla's website for the CCS adapter illustrates better than anything how completely ridiculous CCS is compared to Tesla's connector. This is VHS vs Betamax all over again, except there are governments making laws to push VHS this time around. 🤡🌎

Alright, let's be real here. The useful range of the ultrasonics is about 36"... and that's pretty much exactly the area that's no longer covered in the vision-only setup's forward blind spot. Someone explain again how this is better when it quite clearly isn't? Seems terrible.

At the time of this post, I was told by one of the moderators on GitHub that people who felt the same could upvote my comment (linked above). Since then my comment has clearly ratioed the OP. The OP's own PR has clearly gotten more community rejection than acceptance.

... actually command a pedal amount or anything like that. This way the AP system doesn't need to know anything about the dynamics of the car (S/3/X/Y, doesn't matter), and the rest of the vehicle determines the best way to handle the request only if it passes all crosschecks...

I'm sure people have seen this "paper" describing how SUA happens in a @Tesla. This is basically just a hit piece made to look like something technical. People with actual technical knowledge of the working of a Tesla drive unit can debunk it instantly. First off, it's complete nonsense. The paper doesn't even properly describe the hardware layout in the Tesla inverters, showing a lack of actual information and understanding, making the entire premise is flawed from the start. (See tweet below.) Next, even if we assume that a 12V dip is somehow able to cause a latching failure in the inverter accelerator pedal sensing to persist beyond the dip (which even in a contrived situation it wouldn't actually do this)... the 12V rail is monitored by something like a dozen other modules, several of which will latch and log any low voltage conditions for logging regardless of the duration of the dip (usually happens in a bad 12V situation during sleep... never seen this while HV is engaged). In all of the cases I've personally examined logs for, there's never been an associated 12V drop of any kind. I'm sure @NHTSAgov has the same information, so would already be aware there's no associated 12V dropout. That'd be painfully obvious to anyone doing even the most cursory of analysis on the logs. Again, the inverter design cited in this paper is not how Tesla's inverter is designed. I'm unsure where they came up with that information. Even if it were, it wouldn't even be able to fail in the way mentioned because a momentary dip in 12V wouldn't latch the accelerator pedal readings at full throttle and the inverter gleefully proceed and completely ignore all other brown-out-detection circuitry present both in and off the DSP chips. TL;DR - Paper is BS.

Spent a little time RE'ing some recent Tesla BMS firmware. Some variables were tweaked to fit 108 cell groups (~450V pack). There is a packID that starts life set to ~109 kWh usable (400+ miles). Bunch of other tweaks suggest prep for new S/X/3 pack configs at some point. 🔋

Then the motors look at this information, check if it's sane (no launches, nothing that the AP system wouldn't normally ask for, etc) and calculates how much torque (or braking) is needed to meet the request. If it would result in unusual G-load, power use, etc... it rejects it.

My solar batteries (recycled Tesla Model S modules - 057tech.com) have the equivalent cycles of about 250,000 miles of driving now. Degradation: 5.2%. Less than 1%/yr on avg, with 3% of the loss in the first 2 yrs. This is very acceptable to me. #OffGrid #Solar

Earlier today, the right rocker trim on my 2025 @Tesla Model Y decided to commit suicide. It just blew right off the car at maybe 60 MPH for no obvious reason. Poof, gone. See ya! Scared the crap out of me. Thought I'd hit something, but nope. Video speaks for itself. 😠

Tacking this on to this thread for completeness:

It's pretty neat how freaking strong the @Tesla body structure is. This car rolled down a hill. Oh, and yeah, we picked up the whole car by the roof. Full car, not stripped. (Most body panels damaged, but not much actually missing). Can't even tell we picked it up afterward. 👍

Ok, @Tesla... what the heck. There is literally one other car here (8 stalls), and I need 100% charge to do my trip today. This totally screws me up, and support says they can't fix it. 😡 If there's still no one here when I get to 80% and I can't charge... 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

... levels of preventing things from happening, too, in these instances. They range from as simple as "hey motor, that doesn't look right stop right there!" to the BMS literally cutting off all HV power with the one-time use pyrotechnic HV fuse. Don't mess with the crosschecks!

Wow, this is the most annoying Tesla glitch I've encountered. My X with no pedestrian speaker system started making the pedestrian warning noises from the interior speakers after an update. What the f*... reboot didn't fix. A full 12V power cycle did, though.

Let's say there's some error, though, AND somehow the motor accepts it. Well, then there's a half-dozen other modules throughout the vehicle that are also crosschecking these commands. If any of them think something is amiss, things will just not happen. There are multiple...

To that end, I call on @digitalfoundry, @AntPoolofficial, @luxor, @SpiderPool_com, @ViaBTC, and all other miners/pools to step up. Reject this nonsense. Move away from Bitcoin Core. I don't care what you move to as long as its a codebase that doesn't outright kill Bitcoin. 😭

Claim: Well, the logs can be faked or wrong or otherwise not prove anything. Reality: Firstly, the number of people (outside Tesla) who have any clue how to even interpret the proprietary vehicle logs I can probably count on less than a hand. Second, out of those and the ...

Launching a product from a nearly 2-year private beta soon. Makes life with an out-of-warranty Tesla Model S battery pack stress free. Plug and play.🔌 Cost effective.🔋 Failure worries eliminated. 😎 Not usually one to hype such things, but, proud of this one. Stay tuned! 😃

Just cracked open a core-return Tesla battery pack from a customer who had work done on their battery by a third party (attempted module replacement, failed). We literally found BMB sense wires duct taped together with old yellowed-plastic telco-style wire splices dangling around inside. Pack failed mainly because of an SoC imbalance (which is what happens every time when you try and mix modules), and was having intermittent connectivity to the BMBs. I WONDER WHY?! COULD IT BE THE F*ING DUCT TAPE?! Yes, let's fix this $20,000 component with duct tape. What could possibly go wrong?! Jesus. Please don't let random third parties butcher your battery packs. Come to 057. We can help. I promise, no duct tape inside the battery packs.

I'm out of energy on this. Bitcoin Core is lost. It's one thing to fail to act in the face of an attack on the network. It's another to embrace it and swing the doors wide open for it.

... folks at Tesla who understand them, faking them is a whole different story. Impossible? Wouldn't go that far. Monumental? Yeah, definitely. Because of the way the data is serialized in the log, and entry formats and such are firmware version specific (and change every ...

You have pedal press (logged by two sensors read by 2-4 different systems, depending on the car). You have accelerometer logging, autopilot command logging, torque output logging, brake pedal logging, etc etc. All from multiple modules feeding into the logging system.

... update, which is annoying)... tampering is difficult. Without getting two technical, the log has to be processed in sequence, and is self referencing (to save space and such). Modifying any of it breaks other sections, which then have to be modded, etc etc etc.

It's super easy to see how any acceleration was commanded. For ex: If you mash the accelerator pedal, all of the relevant readings will respond accordingly. The motor will report "commanded torque". Pedal position reported by multiple modules. It's super obvious... moving on...

Modifying the log to show something that didn't occur, while still fitting with the rest of the log... would be so tedious that it might as well be impossible. As for the validity of the data in the logs at all... acceleration, for example, is logged probably 15 different ways.

Update again: Other customer also now has his unlocked. Two wins in two days! 🥳🥳

Bottom line: Do better, @Tesla. Before you tell a customer they need a $20k+ repair, maybe have someone with a better technical grasp of the systems review the issue first... or just train the techs better. Either way, stop screwing customers like this. 😭

Seeing some sub-20ms pings to real-world internet endpoints on Starlink today... and 300+ mbit downloads. Doesn't feel like it's the same Starlink I messed with a year ago. @elonmusk + @SpaceX just casually bumping up against the laws of physics. 😅 Nice work, folks! 📡🛰

My thought was, if FSD can drive the car, surely I can just do those inputs manually and be fine. Boy was I wrong! To make this video required modifying almost every component in this crosscheck chain. And that was a complete nightmare. piped.video/watch?v=kNjJmDnT…

Long story short, any failure or error is going to result in nothing happening. There's no failure of the accelerator pedal, for example, that can result in uncommanded acceleration. Multiple systems just reject it.

This is getting frustrating.😡 I've just now told yet another person that a private Tesla Model S seller completely scammed them and stuck them with a near 5-figure cost battery issue. I'm going to do what I can to help these people get justice if at all possible... Quick🧵

The only hopes left: This isn't actually merged at the last second; or, once its merged, people immediately reject Bitcoin Core and move to something like Bitcoin Knots or at any code that rejects this clear madness. Bitcoin is dead otherwise. Not hyperbole.

I've personally tried to use the AP/FSD interface to do some unusual things. First, there's no way to get significant acceleration out of it at all even abiding by all of the crosscheck limitations. Next, disobeying any of these limitations ranges from annoying to $$$ fixes.

Even then, the car would still give up randomly and I'd discover YET ANOTHER crosscheck I hadn't seen previously. In the end, I got steering working perfectly, braking working great, and acceleration I gave up on trying to use the FSD systems for. I ended upbuilding a ...

Tesla's seem overrepresented here, probably due to the obvious media bias (everything "Tesla" gets clicks!) and because human error in these cases is probably more likely to cause damage when it happens in an EV than in an ICE due to the unforgiving response time to the command.

Is it just me, or does no one seem to care that every single one of these is a huge tax hike? I try to stay away from politics, but, this seems kind of like an obvious no-go for me...

"Police are currently seeking a third party appraisal agency to identify the truth behind this accident and we will actively provide any necessary assistance," Happy to be a third party here and help out the authorities with log deciphering!

I'm the worst politician ever, and I really don't have the energy to combat the FUD around this. Don't accept others claiming it'll be fine. Don't accept appeals to authority on this. Do your own research, come to your own conclusions. If you believe Bitcoin is better money after it's flooded with gigabytes of non-Bitcoin content that all users have to store and give no incentive to use Bitcoin as money... then by all means lemming your way along with Bitcoin Core. If you have at least two brain cells to rub together, then you'll quickly come to the conclusion that, hmm... maybe making it difficult or impossible to use Bitcoin as money will make it not be the best money.

Lots of people pinging me about this latest "news" about Tesla batteries leaking coolant internally. This is nonsense. I've dealt with hundreds of these packs and thousands of modules. I've seen zero evidence of such a defect. The loop is also clearly factory leak tested. 🙄

You're not serious...? The video you quoted reminds me of those "people failing hard to do normal tasks correctly in advertisements" videos... Never lift my hand here...

I'm just going to point out that I bet this person a *brand new Tesla* if the logs on his car show that the car actually did what he claimed (suddenly accelerated with the brake pressed, no accelerator press, and had to be overpowered with more braking). Instead of capitalizing on that obvious win if he were in fact not lying/misktaken, he's instead just calling me an "asshole", a "liar", and other such nonsense. He has proven multiple times publicly and provably that he doesn't understand how any of these systems work, and has presented zero evidence to back up any of his claims. Let's go dude. If you're so sure you're right, let's go on this. I'll be the first to publicly post I was wrong, complete with logs, and will even testify in court as an expert for you at no cost if the logs do in fact support your position. Put your money where your mouth is or seriously, shut the f*ck up. 🖕 Spoiler: I have no chance of losing this bet, because what is claimed isn't actually possible. Welcome to the internet!

(1/*) So, firmware v9. Got a peak at it (thanks, source 😉). Not a full in depth tinkering, but enough to see some of the biggest changes. First is the most obvious: UI unification with Model 3. No more app bar, Nav always shown. Controls screen takes on a new form like on M3.

If I have a Tesla with EAP, and I fork over NINE THOUSAND MORE DOLLARS to Tesla today to upgrade to FSD... ... what do I _actually_ get immediately _today_? It appears to me that the real answer is nothing more than a lighter wallet... 💸🤷‍♂️ (Warning: Rant🧵)

Customer didn't make the link between the driving-through-high-water event and the failure because of the large time delay. He figured, he made it through, no errors, all was well. Nope. TESLAS ARE NOT BOATS. </rant>

... completely custom accelerator pedal emulator... which was STILL almost a bust. The tolerances the drive unit enforces on the data from the accelerator pedal are super tight, and emulating it successfully with DACs proved tricky.

(Like the HV pyrodisconnect.) I recently did an April fools video of "Fuller Self Driving" where my plan was to drive the car from the back seat with a game controller and make a video of the car doing things that FSD just couldn't do.

Well anyway, suffice it to say I ran into more issues. Car actually opened the contactors under load to prevent what it interpreted as uncommanded acceleration. So this stuff just isn't happening on an unmodified car with human error.

Free lifetime supercharging seems like it just went up in value.

Rain, snow, splashing through a reasonable depth puddle: Within spec. Driving through water near or above the bottom of the rocker panel? You're going to end up with your car here & me telling you that your pack has no core value.💸 Don't do it. No, the 3/Y is not much better.

In a last ditch effort for my April fools video, before giving up and moving to a pedal emulator, I modified the drive unit firmware to accept a completely new command to accept a raw torque command as if I'd pressed the pedal. Deleted tons of safety code.

Just sent this in a DM reply and will c/p here: Howdy. The open source "research" into the Tesla inverters is flawed... which is why the open source controllers always damage the units when used. Tesla's accelerator pedal power, while derived from the 12V system, is using two independent isolated 5V supplies. These run along independently on both sides of the vehicle to the pedal. There is no way for a fault in that system to create the correct signals for full acceleration. It's not possible. If somehow the 12V system were so low it caused the isolated 5V supplies and their capacitors to drop below expected voltages, that'd sag the entire curve of the dual sensors, leading to a pedal fault, not full acceleration. This is because the supplies for the 5V rail and the redundant ADCs use separate supplies on purpose. It throws the curves out of whack any time either of those isn't getting required power. Long story short, this is complete nonsense based on faulty analysis of the hardware just like the document that claimed the same based on assumptions a few years back. Happy 4th

I'm not going to go into all of the details again as to why this marks the death of Bitcoin. See my comments on that PR. It's sad to see the death warrant for a project I've been involved with for nearly 15 years signed and sealed, though. Just waiting on delivery.

Congrats @Ford @jimfarley98 in adopting the Tesla supercharger standard for upcoming vehicles! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Glad at least one of the legacy auto makers is seeing the light here.

So um... electric weed eaters. Yep. Never touching a gas powered one ever again. Thought I'd get 20-30 minutes out of this thing. Instead it outlasted ME and was more powerful and did more work than the gas one I had. Why anyone would buy a gas powered one now is beyond me.

I mean really, there's a reason Tesla doesn't offer such a repair. If all it took were swapping out a couple of modules don't you think they'd offer this? The tolerances required by the BMS for 100% safe operation don't allow the discrepancies introduced by oddball modules.

Feel free to ask questions and I'll do my best to answer. Seems a good 20% of my thread got lost somehow. er.

Is there any real interest in Tesla V2G/V2-Load? I finally have a working-on-the-bench hack that gets an unmodified Tesla to give up about 10kW peak of HVDC power from the charge port without completely freaking out... currently super messy, but, could probably refine it. 🤔

Upgraded my VIN 28k RWD #Tesla Model S with a 100 kWh battery pack. ~320 miles of rated range. First and only RWD Tesla with a 100 kWh pack. Will post some pics soon! P100++ ⚡️😎@HSRMotors #TheySaidItCouldntBeDone #WeDidItAnyway

Always super cool when a small miner finds a block! A ~10 Th miner solo mined block on DATUM at that! Some tech sleuthing on the block itself... Based on the DATUM-created data in the generation txn, it was the 2nd connection to the DATUM gateway. Almost certainly not a Bitaxe (extranonce2 is too high)... so could be a few Avalon Nanos, or maybe a FutureBit? Congrats regardless!

Someone please explain to me how they plan to remove that 5GW worth of heat from the equipment? Maybe I'm missing some physics-defying thing here... You need a 4 sqkm solar array to collect the energy from the SUN... and are going to somehow ditch that energy in real-time from a space <1% that size? "use the vacuum of deep space as an infinite heat sink." Do the people funding and pushing this stuff even have high-school level physics knowledge? How does something like this even make it past the napkin math stage, let alone publicized by one of the world's largest companies. If I did the napkin math right, running the hardware at 100C you'd need a radiator 20% bigger than the solar array just to hold that temp... I could definitely be wrong. Maybe someone more specialized on such things can chime in... @DJSnM @Erdayastronaut

The 'sudden acceleration' claims are just humans being humans trying to blame someone else. Have examined close to 20 vehicle logs over the past few years. All undeniably prove a pedal press, including the proper ramp up, at the millisecond level, of both accelerator sensors.

Sadly, the @mempool.space folks have done a 180 on the Bitcoin-only mission that had gained my personal support and advocacy. Recent changes make it clear that's no longer the case, and the evidence is quite overwhelming... just look at the new sponsors...😢 As a result, I personally will no longer be a community sponsor. I do not want to be associated with the scammers that now plaster the sponsors page, nor do I want to lend any of my credibility (as the @mempool folks now have) to these scams now being presented to users of the project/site. Extremely disappointing from one of the few projects that seemed to be poised to do a lot of good for Bitcoin. All that good faith is, quite disappointingly, out the window. "Why do people make shitcoins? To get more Bitcoin." The shitcoiners just want to scam people out of Bitcoin, and now @mempool is directly helping them do that. The public claim of "FUD" around the recent changes from @mempool, which now thrusts all matter of scams into the faces of unsuspecting folks using the MOSP project (behind a "huh, what is this?" click on something that shouldn't be there in the first place), are just BS. What's being shown about the scams has nothing whatsoever to do with Bitcoin. To Bitcoin, it's junk data... it has no meaning to Bitcoin whatsoever. I don't care if you're interpreting it on the client, on the server, or on Mars. To do anything other than display it how it was just a couple of weeks ago, you've directly adopted the shitcoiner's design and are therefore buying into and promoting the scams... just like the scammers want. It's not Bitcoin and doesn't belong in a Bitcoin project. Let the scammers run their own scam explorers as they have been. The most prominent Bitcoin explorer project doesn't need to promote the scams... yet somehow they've managed to coopt it to do so. Up until recently, this data was all displayed 99% sanely from the POV of a Bitcoin project as the raw "Data" it is. To Bitcoin it has no further meaning, and that's that. So a Bitcoin project has no place promoting these scams by lending the project's credibility to them... which is EXACTLY what @mempool has done by incorporating the scammer's interpretations of the junk data into the project. There's no excuse for this whatsoever. By promoting the scams, they're officially shitcoiners. So per their own instructions, I'll have to keep my @mempool.space mug away from them now. If by some miracle the project decides to actually become a Bitcoin project again, I'll be a whale sponsor or better in a heartbeat. Anyway... @mempool, I've cancelled my sponsorship. Keep the BTC (the bait and switch on ethos worked, so you got me there), but please remove my profile pic + link from your sponsor page as soon as possible. Congrats on the influx of new sponsors from all of the scammers, thought. I'm sure everyone on the project sleeps well knowing full well that money came from innocent people that have been cheated into buying into the shitcoins you're now promoting. (So there's no confusion, this is regarding my personal sponsorship of the project, and is posted solely in my personal capacity.)