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The surreal Spiti valley in the state of Himachal Pradesh in India is home to some of the world’s highest villages. Each of these villages come with their very own tag line. Hikkim boasts of the world’s highest post office. Tashigang is home to the world’s highest polling booth. Langza is the high altitude fossil village.  Dhankar village enjoys one of the highest river confluence views. And Komic at 4,587 meters is one of the world’s highest villages with a motorable road. In this article, we are going to be talking about the remote high altitude village of Komic. This village whose name literally means ‘eye of a snow cock’ is home to a simple monastery, an absolutely serene atmosphere and surreal mountain views. But, it is the journey from Kaza to Komic that is even more amazing. This journey through some of the world’s highest villages located in rarefied atmosphere and surrounded by a 360 degree mountain panorama makes for a heady experience. It doesn’t matter whether you are on ...

Bitcoin mining is in short the hash-rate race between power-hungry computers. These machines require a lot of electric power to continue solving/computing complex mathematical puzzles. These cryptographic puzzles are created using memory intensive algorithm called the Proof-of-Work (PoW). Miners validate transactions and add the next block on blockchain, thus keeping the system secure and running. As a reward the miners collect $1000-$3000 in transaction fees from all validated transactions inside a block and also wins 12.5 BTC for mining the block. 2.24 2.23 2.22 2.21 2.20 2.19 2.18 2.17 2.16 2.15 2.14 2.13 2.12 2.11 2.10 2.9 2.8 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 Due to increased competition, the difficulty of mining has increased to such an extent that now you require specialized hardware to achieve enough hash rate to at least participate in the system. In 2009, 100 bitcoins could easily be mined within a day using CPU cycles of a simple home PC, but then as mining diffi...

Heeeeyy PSSSssst I have a secret for you my little friend… I have completed a demo for Podcast: The Musical, the project I have been talking about for fucking years already. I did the opening bit and the first two songs so everyone can get a bit of a taste of what the thing will be like. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do it, but I figured, why the heck not, I’ll post the whole script online for people to enjoy. The demo I’ll be posting soon is just the beginning of this whole podcast musical nonsense. There are like 7 or 8 other full songs and more than enough dumb jokes and bad puns for even the most pun-hardened individual to enjoy. So go ahead and click the pic to read the full script or click here or feel free to even click here if you are feeling dangerous.