Bitcoin Mining Masterminds - Drinks in Quarantine #21

Timestamps:

0:00:00 Hold Music
0:04:00 Remembering Matt D'Souza and guest introductions
0:09:51 The state of Bitcoin mining - institutions, China, challenges, and financialization
0:20:18 Steve Barbour explaining how Upstream Data operates and collaborates with oil and gas companies
0:22:53 The growth of institutional mining and predicting future trends
0:27:51 Debate on hashrate marketplaces as a potential attack vector
0:37:25 Opportunities for hashrate growth in the near future
0:45:16 Mining hardware as a relatively scarce resource and thoughts on the geographic distribution of miners
0:51:27 Incentives for miner efficiency and how that impacts the development of the market
0:56:53 The evolution of the mining rigs and infrastructure
1:07:52 1:18:01 0:10:09 The future of ASICs, the industrialization of the mining industry, and scaling operations effectively
1:18:14 Debating which nations/regions could leverage Bitcoin mining for the greatest benefit
1:31:22 1:40:47 0:09:25 Geopolitical and technical logistics of globalized Bitcoin mining infrastructure
1:40:47 Considerations for mining pools (geographic distribution, geopolitical action, and synergy with exchanges)
1:51:33 Use cases and limitations of Bitcoin mining waste heat
2:01:57 Last words

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