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DOE emergency order expands Carolinas grid options during late heat
The September 18–21 order lets Duke Energy Carolinas dispatch specified and backup resources when reliability is threatened. We explain what it means—and does not mean—for flexible mining loads.
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ERCOT asks 25 MW data-center projects for power, water and community data
The September 18 RFI covers interconnection-stage projects and asks about grid dependence, onsite generation, cooling, water, incentives and ownership. Mining-to-AI conversions should prepare auditable answers.
Bitcoin Core caps queued HTTP responses with 32 MiB backpressure
Merged PR #36174 pauses request processing when a connection’s send buffer grows beyond 32 MiB. Pool and node operators should understand the scope, deployment status and monitoring impact.
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Braiins warns that recent Bitmain firmware may restrict third-party installation
The September 18 notice is a vendor warning, not proof that every model or build is affected. Here is a safe fleet-update procedure while details remain under investigation.
DOE orders Schahfer units available to MISO through December 18
The emergency order starts September 20 and concerns grid reliability, not a special rule for miners. Flexible-load operators should review curtailment and tariff assumptions.
Bitcoin Core fixes pruning startup race for newly enabled indexes
Merged PR #36150 prevents a node from pruning blocks before a newly enabled index can synchronize. The change is in master and should not be confused with an installed release.
Bitcoin difficulty rises 4.16% to 132.76 trillion at block 967,680
The September 19 retarget raises the work required per block; miners should separate difficulty impact from price, fees, uptime and power cost.
Bitcoin Core adds bestblockhash to getmininginfo to avoid template races
Merged change lets mining software obtain the tip hash and next-target data from one consistent RPC snapshot.
SEC grants five-year conditional pathway for tokenized U.S. stock venues
The temporary exemption permits limited permissioned AMM trading under symbol, volume, rights, disclosure and trading-halt conditions.
