Today we are joined by Alen Makhmetov a miner in Kazakhstan to talk about the realities of operating in that country.

Alen Makhmetov: https://twitter.com/alenmakhmetov

Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

00:48 Alen profile

02:49 Mining in Russia

03:56 Mining is Kazakhstan

05:05 New regulation

07:13 Energy landscape

08:33 On-grid mining ops

09:35 China ban effect

11:47 Grid outages

15:09 4 points of new laws

17:16 National mining pool

20:34 Russia war

22:16 Importing ASICs

23:41 Russia energy cost

25:15 Crypto payments in ops

26:03 Future of mining in K and R

27:44 Large miners in K

28:25 Will R increase mining

29:14 The halving

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