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Today we are joined by Sebastien Hess, co-founder of Block Green, a protocol for selling hashrate. We discuss how miner’s sell hashrate, who is buying hashrate and how Block Green thinks of energy.

https://www.block.green

Sebastien Hess: https://twitter.com/SebastienHess

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

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

00:36 Black Green overview

03:58 Hashrate derivative

05:48 What is a vault?

06:51 Onboarding miners

09:05 Contracts & collateral

11:12 Who is buying?

13:02 Liquidity

14:47 Size of contracts

15:44 Minimum hash

17:28 EU vs US customers

18:35 EU mining landscape

20:56 Energy source profile

22:54 KYM process

25:33 Future of Block Green

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Today we are talking about how miner revenue has been up, if old ETH miners pivoting to AI is realistic and Tether hydro mining in Uruguay.

https://www.theblock.co/post/232886/bitcoin-miner-revenue-climbs-to-916-million-in-may

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/05/26/usbtc-aims-to-become-bitcoin-mining-giant-after-deal-to-buy-celsius-assets/

https://hashrateindex.com/blog/fahrenheit-256-inside-us-bitcoin-and-cos-acquisition-of-celsius-bankruptcy-assets/

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230531005132/en/CoreWeave-Secures-200-Million-Series-B-Extension-Bringing-Total-Round-to-421-Million

https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1664675237819031553

https://www.theblock.co/post/232521/tether-bitcoin-mining-uruguay

https://www.thestreet.com/cryptocurrency/news/biden-30-percent-bitcoin-mining-tax-debt-ceiling-deal

https://github.com/djrtwo/writing/blob/main/docs/2022-05-30_the-risks-of-lsd.md

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

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

01:13 Miner revenue increase

02:25 USBTC to buy Celcius assets

04:19 ETH miners pivot to AI compute

06:08 Nic Carter on AI pivot

07:09 Tether mining in Uruguay

08:22 Biden 30% mining tax dead (for now)

09:28 ETH risks of LSD

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We are down south in Miami for Bitcoin 2023. Today we are joined by Taylor Monnig, VP of Mining Technology at CleanSpark. We discuss the history and current trends in immersion mining, oil vs hydro, overclocking and how to decide if immersion is right for a specific location.

https://cleanspark.com

Taylor Monnig: https://twitter.com/taylorbmonnig

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

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

00:54 Immersion mining overview

06:10 History of immersion mining

07:53 Taylor's history

11:04 Who is using immersion?

13:38 2019-20 immersion scene

15:19 Current trends

16:21 1 vs 2 phase

17:37 Why use immersion

20:23 Current innovations

22:15 Immersion patents

23:24 ASIC immersion demand

25:47 Hydro vs immersion

27:54 Cooling design mistakes

30:23 Cleanspark

33:00 Setup immersion vs air cooled

35:56 Deciding to go immersion

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Today we are joined by Anthony Power to discuss his May mining update, “Ranking ‘mid-tier’ Bitcoin miners, by the numbers”, the effect of Ordinals on rewards and the continued importance of balance sheet management.

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We are down south in Miami for Bitcoin 2023. Today we are joined by Lee Bratcher, President of the Texas Blockchain Council. We discuss Texas mining, Bitcoin and CBDC bills, domestic ASIC production and garnering public interest.

Lee Bratcher: https://twitter.com/lee_bratcher

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

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

01:13 Proof of Reserves Bill

02:15 State based law making

05:32 Texas CBDC Bill 

08:14 Limiting BTC mining in ERCOT Bill

16:38 Political flexibility

19:29 NYT Mining Story

21:44 Miner data privacy

26:07 Interacting w/ journalists

29:25 ERCOT update

34:11 Domestic ASIC manufacturing

37:33 Lobbying progress

41:26 BTC interest in Texas

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Today we are joined by Justin Drake an Ethereum researcher that collaborated on the ETH 2.0 consensus change. We talk about variations of mining attacks on Bitcoin.

Justin Drake: https://twitter.com/drakefjustin

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

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

01:30 Justin Drake

04:05 51% attacks

11:22 Spectrum of attack outcomes

14:33 Attackers vs defenders

19:22 $5.25B economic security

23:17 Tactics

30:46 Timing the attack

34:13 Hardware attacks

39:43 Infrastructure attacks

44:24 Regulation & violence attacks

46:50 Vulnerable attack vectors

52:27 How to prepare?

01:01:38 Checkpoints & ASIC secret code

01:06:48 The role of ideology

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Today we discuss Ordinals driving a crazy fee market and miners stacking sats, Marathon making moves in Abu Dhabi and the ZeroSync paper.

Matt Kimmell: https://twitter.com/MatthewKimmell

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

STORIES

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/zerosync-introducing-validity-proofs-to-bitcoin/

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/05/11/bitcoins-high-fees-brought-back-bull-market-level-mining-revenue-but-not-for-long/

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/05/09/marathon-digital-in-jv-for-immersion-cooling-bitcoin-mining-in-abu-dhabi/

https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000435ab16cdc0e2df3a7dbf75eec117ecfcedc6d053b0c2

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/05/11/hut-8-first-quarter-revenue-drops-64-as-bitcoin-mining-difficulties-bite/

https://mempool.space/mining

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

01:47 Ordinals fees gone wild!

12:06 Marathon & Abu Dhabi

15:11 Hut 8 having ops trouble

17:40 ZeroSync

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Today we are joined by Anthony Power to discuss his March mining updates, strengths and weaknesses of miners and a special note on Core Scientific, who recently appointed a new president.

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Today we are joined by Jamie Leverton and Asher Genoot of Hut 8 and US BTC to discuss the merger of the two Bitcoin mining firms. We talk about US BTC’s operations, its strategic purchases in 2022 and merging the two firm’s assets.

https://hut8.io/

https://usbitcoin.com/

Jamie Leverton: https://twitter.com/jaimeleverton

Asher Genoot: https://twitter.com/ashergenoot

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

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

02:10 Merger overview

05:07 USBTC assets & experience

09:12 Bear market asset acquisitions

15:05 Hut 8 BTC treasury & Canada

19:56 Integrating business ops

24:06 Mining sites as data centers

26:35 Hashrate predictions

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Today we discuss Intel pausing ASIC manufacturing due to inventory glut, Gensler doing his best impression of a piñata in Congress & Coinbase considers moving to Bermuda.

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

STORIES

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/04/21/solanas-annual-carbon-footprint-equals-8-flights-from-london-to-new-york/

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/04/20/crypto-exchange-coinbase-receives-license-to-operate-in-bermuda/

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/04/18/bitcoin-financial-services-firm-unchained-capital-raises-60m/

https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1648338351832064003

https://mempool.space/mining

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

01:14 Intel pauses ASIC manufacturing

03:36 Solana ESG nonsense

05:35 Coinbase Bermuda register

09:01 Gensler in the hot seat

14:54 Unchained raises money

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