Mining is a component of blockchain economics that is often misunderstood. In this episode we look at the economic and technological roles that mining plays for a cryptocurrency and the implications of these roles.

Our Head of Research, Dr Lewin Boehnke, guides this discussion about the economics of asics, asic resistance, and a few real and potential developments, including the impact of botnets in the blockchain era, and how zero knowledge proofs could evolve.