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Where is mining hardware headed? Can mining and AI really work together? Find out this and more on The Mining Pod this week.

The hardware game is becoming more competitive, with new entrants like Jack Dorsey’s Block, Marathon Digital-backed Auradine, and more. And then there’s this whole AI thing that mining CEOs and others keep talking about! 

To make it straight, we brought on ePIC Blockchain co-founder Earl Mai to discuss ePIC’s hardware product line, the difficulties of getting a hardware startup off the ground, what its like to compete against Bitmain and how mining–and AI–could converge together over the next few years!

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Chapter Markers:

00:00 Start

03:07 Earl's background

04:51 ePIC's products

05:45 Earl's early mining days

09:50 Moving from alts to bitcoin

12:46 ASIC design process

15:36 Why Bitmain dominates?

20:15 Bitmian chip design

21:51 Don't fight Bitmain

24:41 Components

26:18 Shoebox form factor

27:39 How not to get scammed

29:37 Next gen ASICS

30:34 Intel update

31:20 Competition in the space

33:14 Is Bitmain slowing template propagation?

39:06 Competitive edge on open network

40:43 Where's the new competitive edge?

44:20 AI and Bitcoin Mining

Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 

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"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset.  Distributed by CoinDesk with Senior Producer Michele Musso and Executive Producer Jared Schwartz. 

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Host Helene Braun breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry from the $400 million leverage flush out to New York Attorney General Letitia James' pushback against DCG, Silbert’s motions to dismiss the fraud case.

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"CoinDesk Daily" host Helene Braun breaks down the biggest headlines impacting the crypto industry today, including bitcoin and ether's reaction to the $400 million leverage flush out. Plus, Fidelity International has selected JPMorgan’s Onyx Digital Assets blockchain to tokenize a money market fund and New York Attorney General Letitia James pushed back against DCG, Silbert’s motions to dismiss the fraud case.

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This episode was hosted by Helene Braun. “First Mover” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and Melissa Montañez and edited by Victor Chen.

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The latest price moves and insights with Shift Markets CEO Ian McAfee and Roger Bayston, Executive Vice President and Head of Digital Assets at Franklin Templeton.

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Roger Bayston, Executive Vice President and Head of Digital Assets at Franklin Templeton, and Shift Markets CEO Ian McAfee joined CoinDesk Live at Consensus 2024 to discuss institutional adoption of crypto and how blockchain technologies empower financial service providers.

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This episode was co-hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Helene Braun. “Markets Daily” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Victor Chen, alongside Senior Booking Producer Melissa Montañez. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey.

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From the Consensus stage, we explore the rise of meme coins and the financialization of cultural ideas through blockchain technology.

In this episode, we feature a panel from Consensus moderated by Camilla McFarland with artist Rhett Mankind, marketer Liz Hagelthorn, talent representative Chris Jacquemin, and investor Derek Edwards to discuss the emergence of meme coins, the tokenization of cultural concepts and the potential impact of this trend on art, celebrity and the monetization of ideas. This episode was recorded live at Consensus 2024 in Austin, TX.

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"Gen C" features hosts Sam Ewen and Avery Akkineni. Executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced by Uyen Truong. Our theme music is "1882” by omgkirby x Channel Tres with editing by Doc Blust. Artwork by Nicole Marie Rincon.

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Venice.ai founder and CEO Erik Voorhees joins the company's Chief Operating Officer Teana Baker-Taylor to discuss the significance of user privacy in AI systems.

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Venice.ai founder and CEO Erik Voorhees joins the company's Chief Operating Officer Teana Baker-Taylor live at Consensus 2024 to discuss the significance of user privacy, non-censorship, and open-source models in artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “First Mover” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and Melissa Montañez and edited by Victor Chen.

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Napster CEO Jon Vlassopulos weighs in on decentralization in the music industry.

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Napster CEO Jon Vlassopulos joins CoinDesk Live at Consensus 2024 to discuss the brand's evolution and its upcoming initiatives. Plus, insights on community and artist engagement in the music and Web3 space.

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “First Mover” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and Melissa Montañez and edited by Victor Chen.

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Host Helene Braun breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry from the U.S. jobs report to Semler Scientific's bitcoin purchase.

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"CoinDesk Daily" host Helene Braun breaks down the biggest headlines impacting the crypto industry today, as bitcoin (BTC), stocks and bond markers have all turned lower in response to the strong employment data in May. Plus, Saudi Arabia’s central bank has joined Project mBridge as a full participant and medical device maker Semler Scientific has broadened its corporate strategy to include buying bitcoin.

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This episode was hosted by Helene Braun. “First Mover” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and Melissa Montañez and edited by Victor Chen.

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Coinbase has launched its new smart wallet with partners such as DeFi lending protocol Moonwell, offering them freebies they can pass onto consumers to get more people on-chain. 

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Coinbase’s “on-chain summer” has kicked off with the launch of its new smart wallet. This interview with Luke Youngblood, founding contributor to Moonwell, gives a peek at how it’s sweetening the pot for developers and users alike. 

In this episode, Youngblood describes how smart wallets are different from traditional wallets, how they do away with past security issues, and the more minor potential risks that still do exist with smart wallets. He also gives details on the ways that Coinbase is trying to use its smart wallet to get users on-chain: making it much easier to transact on-chain directly from their Coinbase accounts, subsidizing gas costs for certain dapps, and making sure everything is web-accessible. 

Plus, he explains why Moonwell chose Base, how it is branching out to non-crypto native DeFi users, such as populations that only have mobile phones and not desktop computers in geographies like Africa, Latin America, and Asia, and how the DeFi lending protocol differentiates itself from bigger ones that have established a beachhead on Base. 

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There’s too much M&A in Bitcoin mining to keep track of! 

Will and Charlie dig into this week’s Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news, including the short report leveled at Riot Platforms, CoreWeave’s declined bid to purchase Core Scientific, BitDeer buying a fabless ASIC manufacturer for $140 million in shares, and lastly, Cleanspark’s involvement in the Cheyenne, Wyoming Bitcoin mining slapped with an executive order by the Biden administration.

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Chapters:

00:00 Start

02:31 Difficulty update

04:51 Mining stocks

08:04 Riot & Bitfarms

16:30 Core Scientific rejects Coreweave

22:00 Desiweminer (new AISC)

27:21 Cleanspark vs White House

Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 

👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show.

👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty!

Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.

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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!

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"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset.  Distributed by CoinDesk with Senior Producer Michele Musso and Executive Producer Jared Schwartz. 

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CoinDesk Indices presents notable data insights from the week, followed by additional analysis from an industry expert.

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The CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) functions as a benchmark for the performance of the digital asset market, delivering institutional quality information to digital asset investors. Subsets of the CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) are investible CoinDesk Crypto Sectors and the CoinDesk 20 Index, designed to measure the performance of the top digital assets. Today’s takeaways are provided by Tracy Stephens, senior index manager at CoinDesk Indices with additional analysis from Alex Ryvkin, Founder and CEO at Rho Labs.

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