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Is Decentralized Storage Similar To Mining? | Bill Schreckenstein | The Mining Pod Mar 02, 2023

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Today we’re going offroad from Bitcoin mining into an adjacent subject, decentralized storage. We are joined by Bill Schreckenstein, an engineer at Protocol Labs focused on building a decentralized alternative to cloud computing such as AWS.

Bill gives us the inside scoop on Filecoin–a decentralized network for storing data. We talk about the actors, the economics and how it compares to Bitcoin mining.

https://filecoin.io/

Bill Schreckenstein:https://www.linkedin.com/in/billschreckenstein

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

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

01:18 Bill's bio

05:26 Filecoin ecosystem

09:41 Adding capacity to the network

11:36 Slashing

12:50 FIL token & monetary rewards

16:50 Customer base?

21:06 Becoming a Filecoin storage provider

24:31 It's NOT like BTC mining

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Bitcoin Mining OG Andy Long | White Rock | The Mining Pod Feb 28, 2023

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Today we are joined by Andy Long, CEO of White Rock Management. A Bitcoin mining OG, Andy walks us through the current mining landscape, his long term mining thesis and a primer on European mining opportunities.

https://wrm.swiss/

Andy Long: https://twitter.com/longandy

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

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

01:42 Andy Long Bio

04:29 It's all about the difficulty adjustment

09:27 Surplus ASIC supply

11:59 Near future predictions

15:07 Has the cycle changed?

20:27 The halving & energy prices

25:45 Mining in Europe

28:49 Mining in the US

32:33 Hashrate prediction

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News Roundup: The Fed Says ‘No’, Montana’s Mining Law & Thieving Miners | The Mining Pod Feb 25, 2023

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In this week’s news roundup, we talk about the Fed denying Costodia’s banking application, friendly mining regulation making it’s way through Montana’s legislature, and a school employee putting miners in a crawlspace to leach electricity, sneaky, sneaky.

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

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

STORIES

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/23/crypto-bank-custodias-bid-for-fed-supervision-rejected-again/

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/23/montana-senate-passes-bill-protecting-crypto-miners/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/cryptocurrency-mine-secretly-operated-inside-mass-school-crawlspace-police-say/ar-AA17OFJa

https://mempool.space/mining

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

00:51 Custodia banking denial

04:54 Montana friendly mining regulation

07:08 Employee stealing electricity

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The Biggest Policy Threats To Bitcoin Mining | Riot Platforms | The Mining Pod Feb 21, 2023

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Today we are joined by Brian Morgenstern, head of public policy at Riot Platforms. Brian recently joined Riot to advocate for the Bitcoin mining industry in Washington DC. We talk about the recent SEC crackdown on staking, operation choke point 2.0 and opportunities for policy makers.

https://www.riotplatforms.com

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

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

01:14 Kraken SEC judgment

04:40 Kraken staking product vs mining

07:05 Brian background

10:19 Bitcoin policy lobbyists

15:31 State vs federal policy focus

17:15 Energy narratives

21:27 Risks and opportunities

27:18 Operation Chokepoint 2.0

33:08 Rationale behind Chokepoint

37:16 Future opportunities

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News Roundup: Core Sci’s Chartered Jets, Blockchain.com’s 3AC Loss & WSJ’s Bad Bitcoin Takes | The Mining Pod Feb 18, 2023

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In this week’s news roundup, we talk about Core Scientific flying high (literally) in private chartered jets, Blockchain.com’s loss connected with the Three Arrows Capital debacle, and WSJ uses a clickbait headline to detail mundane Bitcoin open sources processes that zero normies will understand. Good times.

Colin Harper: https://hashrateindex.com/blog/author/colin/

Colin Harper: https://twitter.com/asilayhodling

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

STORIES

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/17/crypto-miner-core-scientific-paid-more-than-1m-to-ceo-affiliated-personal-jet-company/

https://decrypt.co/121627/blockchain-com-shopping-assets-to-fill-270m-hole-from-three-arrows-capital-sources

https://archive.is/Q03au

https://mempool.space/mining

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

01:36 Core Scientific Jet Company

05:44 Blockchain.com's 3AC Loss

11:20 WSJ: 6 Mysterious Coders

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Controlling Risk with Hive Blockchain | The Mining Pod Feb 14, 2023

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Today we are joined by Frank Holmes and Aydin Kilic of Hive Blockchain. We talk about Hive’s 2022 including Ethereum mining and the Intel-based Buzzminer. Mainly we focus on Hive’s corporate culture, including its dedication to efficiency, maintaining margins and controllable risks.

https://www.hiveblockchain.com/

https://twitter.com/HiveBlockchain

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

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

00:55 Leadership change at Hive

04:50 Hive operations & new CEO

07:44 ETH mining change & new chips

13:07 4722 BTC equivalent mined

14:52 Texas is a crowded market now

16:22 Scaling past 10k+ ASICs

25:31 Intel chips & building a new miner

32:37 Not making miners

34:51 2023 & beyond

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News Roundup: SEC & Kraken Staking, Kazakh Mining, Argo Exec Shuffle & Ordinal Theory | The Mining Pod Feb 11, 2023

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In this week’s news roundup, we talk about the SEC staking announcement, Kazakh Mining & Ordinal Theory.

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

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

STORIES

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/07/kazakhstans-president-signs-legislation-to-limit-energy-usage-of-crypto-mining/

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/09/kraken-agreed-to-shutter-crypto-staking-operations-to-settle-sec-charges-source/

https://cointelegraph.com/news/argo-ceo-follows-resignation-trend-after-company-acquisition-by-galaxy-digital

https://mempool.space/mining

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

01:27 Staking go bye bye

05:08 Kazakhstan energy limit

08:34 Argo CEO resigns

11:23 Ordinals

20:37 ETH vs BTC NFTs

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Keeping Operating Costs Slim With Cipher Mining | Tyler Page | The Mining Pod Feb 07, 2023

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Today we are joined by Tyler Page, CEO of Cipher Mining. We talk about Cipher’s capital strategy, machine purchases and growing its operational footprint across Texas.

https://www.ciphermining.com

https://twitter.com/cipherinc

Tyler Page: https://twitter.com/rftylerpage

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

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

01:20 What is Cyphermining?

06:09 Working with equity groups

08:37 Timing hardware buys

12:41 Bull market pressure to get rigs online

15:29 Managing hardware manufacturers

17:38 Building facilities

22:01 Managing "behind the meter" facilities

24:30 Jobs in mining

26:10 Putting 6 exahash online

28:58 Hashrate prediction

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News Roundup: Miners Restructure, Giga Raises and Riot Exec Shuffle | The Mining Pod Feb 04, 2023

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In this week’s news roundup, we talk about miners restructuring, Giga raising $10M and Riot staffing changes.

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

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

STORIES

https://compassmining.io/education/bitcoin-mining-shares-dilution/

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3930940-bitcoin-miner-riot-platforms-chief-commercial-officer-leaves

https://www.theblock.co/post/208109/bitcoin-mining-infrastructure-startup-giga-energy-raising-10-million-in-series-a

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/03/core-scientific-to-hand-crypto-mining-rigs-to-nydig-to-extinguish-386m-in-debt/

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230201006127/en/TeraWulf-Announces-Beneficial-[…]8TsFlWC94i5bShFoukL9Gk5koy58LEUpvQpH4uhrDreVaSuMjrJS3dDw==

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-02/bitcoin-btc-rebound-gives-crypto-miners-chance-to-renegotiate-debt

https://braiins.com/blog/debt-capital-markets-in-bitcoin-mining-part-1

https://mempool.space/mining

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

01:35 Miners Renegotiate Debt

04:41 Core Scientific Debt

06:53 Giga raises $10M

09:13 Riot CCO leaves

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Bitcoin NFTs Are Filling Blocks | The Mining Pod Feb 02, 2023

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Hot Bitcoin NFT (Ordinals) talk on today's show. What are they? How are they possible? Is Bitcoin doomed? Find out.

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

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

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

00:12 Intro

01:21 Intro

01:40 NFTs on BTC?

03:06 What is an ordinal?

05:11 Tracking & fungibility of BTC

07:07 Storing data on chain

08:19 OP_RETURN

11:52 Taproot transaction types

15:59 Why is on chain data bad?

18:30 Pruning the data on nodes

20:14 Community response

22:16 What is Bitcoin for?

28:12 Other use cases for on chain data storage?

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