Cynthia Wu was the Investment Director at Bitmain Technologies before joining Matrixport, focusing on investments in the blockchain financial services  sector.  She joins us to discuss the various products and services Matrixport offers to miners and the crypto community, and they continue to strive to make crypto easy.

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About our sponsor:  Luxor Technology is North America's largest mining pool.  With a focus on enterprise solutions and an intense focus on customer experience, they provide a premier mining pool platform for bitcoin and altcoin miners.  Visit them today at https://luxor.tech/hashr8, and follow them on Twitter @LuxorTechTeam.

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Matthew joins us to discuss the Blockchain Services Network(BSN), a public-private partnership based in China and expanding worldwide.  Anytime China is involved with outside business dealings people get wary.  Matthew is on to share what BSN is, what it isn't, and how it really could impact the global economy.

Matthew Graham is the CEO of Sino Global Capital, a Beijing-based company focused on accelerating the growth of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology through strategic investments and development of the Chinese investors base and tech stack.  For more information on Sino Global Capital click here.

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About our sponsor:  Luxor Technology is North America's largest mining pool.  With a focus on enterprise solutions and an intense focus on customer experience, they provide a premier mining pool platform for bitcoin and altcoin miners.  Visit them today at https://luxor.tech/hashr8, and follow them on Twitter @LuxorTechTeam.

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Russell Cann is the Chief Customer Success Officer for Core Scientific and he manages some of the largest blockchain and AI hosting facilities in North America.  Before working with Core, Russell managed his own GPU mining facility.  In this conversation we discuss Core's genesis story and their impressive leadership team, which includes former executives from Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and MySpace.  Also Russell shares his belief on the expansion of High Performance Computing infrastructure, and the close connection between AI and Blockchain.

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About our sponsor:  Luxor Technology is North America's largest mining pool.  With a focus on enterprise solutions and an intense focus on customer experience, they provide a premier mining pool platform for bitcoin and altcoin miners.  Visit them today at https://luxor.tech/hashr8, and follow them on Twitter @LuxorTechTeam.

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Harry joins us to share how he and the Griid team are building the most efficient mining operations in North America through a horizontally-integrated team and focused growth plan to amass a portfolio of bitcoin mining operations.  We also discuss the Transaction Fee Swap instrument Harry worked with the BitOoda team to design for Miners.

Harry Sudock is Director of Strategy for Griid.  Griid is an AI and Blockchain Infrastructure company.  Click here to learn more. 

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Luxor Discord: https://discord.gg/Cpm6rD

Chun is the proprieter of F2Pool, the world's #1 bitcoin mining pool.  He has been invloved with mining and investing in bitcoin since 2011.  Chun joins us to share his experiences as a Bitcoiner, his thoughts on Satoshi, and why he feels Miners should consider more than just fees when allocating their hash to mining pools.

F2Pool has built the world’s leading cryptocurrency mining pool servicing miners in more than 100 countries. With support for more than 40 proof-of-work cryptocurrencies, and as a top 3 mining pool operator for 20 of these networks, we have played a major part in securing blockchain infrastructure and educating the global community about cryptocurrency mining.

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About our sponsor:  Luxor Technology is North America's largest mining pool.  With a focus on enterprise solutions and an intense focus on customer experience, they provide a premier mining pool platform for bitcoin and altcoin miners.  Visit them today at https://luxor.tech/hashr8, and follow them on Twitter @LuxorTechTeam.

Luxor Discord: https://discord.gg/Cpm6rD

HASHR8 HASHRATE SERIES!

Today we've got a panel discussion on Hashrate Derivatives between Sam Bankman-Fried, Ethan Vera, John Lee Quigley, and Leo Zhang.

Each of these gentlemen weigh in with their opinions on the validity and promise of these new financial instruments.

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About our sponsor:  Luxor Technology is North America's largest mining pool.  With a focus on enterprise solutions and an intense focus on customer experience, they provide a premier mining pool platform for bitcoin and altcoin miners.  Visit them today at https://luxor.tech/hashr8, and follow them on Twitter @LuxorTechTeam.

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HASHR8 HASHRATE SERIES!

Sam Doctor and Adam Lambalot of BitOoda join the show to give an overview of the derivative products currently available to Miners.  We discuss hashrate contracts and difficulty swaps.  Also they express their belief about the importance of regulated products leading the charge forward into this new market.  This is an excellent overview of these new products!

About BitOoda: BitOoda Holdings LLC is a global financial services platform with a mission to accelerate the global adoption of transformational technologies by promoting transparent and efficient marketplaces, through innovative and professional capital markets solutions. BitOoda Holdings, LLC’s subsidiaries include Ooda Commodities LLC, a CFTC/NFA-registered Introducing Broker; BitOoda Technologies LLC, an SEC/FINRA-registered Broker-Dealer; and BitOoda Digital LLC, which has applied for a NY DFS BitLicense. BitOoda Hash(TM) and BitOoda Difficulty(TM) are trademarks of BitOoda Holdings, LLC. For more information, please visit www.bitooda.io or email [email protected].

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About our sponsor:  Luxor Technology is North America's largest mining pool.  With a focus on enterprise solutions and an intense focus on customer experience, they provide a premier mining pool platform for bitcoin and altcoin miners.  Visit them today at https://luxor.tech/hashr8, and follow them on Twitter @LuxorTechTeam.

Luxor Discord: https://discord.gg/Cpm6rD

Today we're joined by Joel Birch to discuss his experiencing building crypto startups.  Joel shares his thoughts on entrepreneurship and how to push forward through challenges and regulatory hurdles to build beautiful products people enjoy.

Joel Birch is the Cofounder and CEO of Stacked, an automated cryptocurrency investing platform.  Click here to learn more about Stacked. 

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About our sponsor:  Luxor Technology is North America's largest mining pool.  With a focus on enterprise solutions and an intense focus on customer experience, they provide a premier mining pool platform for bitcoin and altcoin miners.  Visit them today at https://luxor.tech/hashr8, and follow them on Twitter @LuxorTechTeam.

Luxor Discord: https://discord.gg/Cpm6rD

Nic Carter recently published his opinions on the much-contested debate over Bitcoin's energy consumption.  Join us as Nic shares his thoughts on how Bitcoin's network infrastructure growth is simply following in the footsteps of previous industries and providing a much needed outlet for power which would otherwise be wasted.

Nic is a partner at Castle Island Ventures, the Cofounder and Chairman of Coin Metrics, and a Columnist for CoinDesk.   Read his article titled The Last Word on Bitcoin's Energy Consumption.

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About our sponsor:  Luxor Technology is North America's largest mining pool.  With a focus on enterprise solutions and an intense focus on customer experience, they provide a premier mining pool platform for bitcoin and altcoin miners.  Visit them today at https://luxor.tech/hashr8, and follow them on Twitter @LuxorTechTeam.

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Today we're joined by Igor Runets of BitRiver.  He describes his journey from traditional Telecom to building a massive bitcoin mining operation in Siberia.  Igor has a unique perspective on the mining landscape and has intense national pride and a desire to see Russia further advance as a bitcoin-mining hub.  

Igor Runets is Founder and CEO of BitRiver, the largest collocation services' provider for Bitcoin mining in Russia and the CIS region. BitRiver's customers are institutional miners and are based in countries across the globe.  Click here for more information on BitRiver.

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About our sponsor:  Luxor Technology is North America's largest mining pool.  With a focus on enterprise solutions and an intense focus on customer experience, they provide a premier mining pool platform for bitcoin and altcoin miners.  Visit them today at https://luxor.tech/hashr8, and follow them on Twitter @LuxorTechTeam.

Luxor Discord: https://discord.gg/Cpm6rD