What's Halvening - The Bitcoin Mining Podcast

Welcome to What’s Halvening!
 
Hosted by Cassie Clifton and produced by Bitcoin Magazine, the show chronicles the latest and greatest developments taking shape across the complex and ever-changing cryptocurrency mining industry through interviews with mining experts, CEOs, and general enthusiasts. 
 
In this episode of What’s Halvening, Cassie interviews Justin Podhola, CEO & founder of Washington-based Elite Mining Inc, or EMI. EMI is building a vertically integrated mining facility that will be run on 99% renewable energy. Justin and I discuss:
How to read poker faces of crypto-enthusiasts 
EMI’s Series A equity token offering 
EMI’s strategy of buying up S9s in anticipation of the halving
What it means to be vertically integrated & expertise needed
How their break-even BTC price is Stick around to the end of the episode for announcements from Justin on their upcoming March 3rd token offering, acquisition of 2 hydro plants and the upcoming launch of their mobile units!
 
Follow Justin on Twitter @JustinPodhola
Follow EMI on Twitter @EliteMiningInc
Follow Cassie on Twitter @bitcoincass
 
https://elitemininginc.com/
 
www.bitcoin2020conference.com

Welcome to What's Halvening!
Hosted by Cassie Clifton and produced by Bitcoin Magazine, the show chronicles the latest and greatest developments taking shape across the complex and ever-changing cryptocurrency mining industry through interviews with mining experts, CEOs, and general enthusiasts.
In this episode of What's Halvening, Cassie interviews Nick Hansen and Eddie Wang, co-founders of Luxor Tech, North America’s largest mining pool operator. Today we discuss
why Luxor was founded and what sets them apart from other pools
the launch of their Bitcoin mining pool in October 2019
considerations when building out a profit-switching pool
payment mechanisms
the importance of a reliable hashrate spot market
Follow us on Twitter at @whatshalvening
Follow Cassie on Twitter at @bitcoincass
Follow Luxor on Twitter at @LuxorTechTeam
Follow Nick Hansen on Twitter at @NickHansen600
Follow Eddie Wang on Twitter at @Eddiepluswang
https://www.luxor.tech/
https://mining.luxor.tech/en
Join Luxor's Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/BhhASqq
Use code CASS20 for 20% of your ticket to Bitcoin 2020:
https://www.bitcoin2020conference.com/

Welcome to What’s Halvening!
Hosted by Cassie Clifton and produced by Bitcoin Magazine, the show chronicles the latest and greatest developments taking shape across the complex and ever-changing cryptocurrency mining industry through interviews with mining experts, CEOs, and general enthusiasts.
In this episode of What’s Halvening, Cassie interviews Pavel Moravec and Jan Čapek, co-founders of Braiins, the company that operates SlushPool. Braiins launched the first open-source initiative for Bitcoin mining with Brains OS in 2018, and they continue to bring open-source software and transparency to Bitcoin mining across the full stack through their other projects, as well. Today you’ll hear about
Covert ASICBoost
Implementation & features of Stratum V2, including efficiency and security improvements, as well as the inspiration behind the protocol
Work selection with Stratum V2 & why it’s important miners have the ability to select their own work
Taking back ownership of your hardware with bOS miner, as well as features of bOS miner – like improved efficiency through header-only mining, greater security & authentication mechanism, and overriding factory settings
Braiins’ work in supporting custom extensions in a controlled way
Potential barriers preventing new players from entering the hardware manufacturing space
 
Follow us on Twitter at @whatshalvening
Follow Cassie on Twitter at @bitcoincass
Follow Brains on Twitter at @Braiins_Systems
Follow Pavel Moravec on Twitter at @mor_pav
Follow Jan Čapek on Twitter at @janbraiins
 
Website Links:
https://braiins-os.org/ 
https://slushpool.com/
https://stratumprotocol.org/
 
Use code CASS20 for 20% of your ticket to Bitcoin 2020: https://www.bitcoin2020conference.com/

Hosted by Cassie Clifton and produced by Bitcoin Magazine, the show chronicles the latest and greatest developments taking shape across the complex and ever-changing cryptocurrency mining industry through interviews with mining experts, CEOs, and general enthusiasts.In this episode of What’s Halvening, Cassie interviews Christopher Bendiksen, head of research at CoinShares. Chris has been a pioneer in helping dispel a lot of the “Bitcoin Will Burn Down the Planet” myths. We discuss the following topics 
CoinShares recently published December 2019 Bitcoin Mining Update
Influence of misconceptions of bitcoin mining on regulatory decisions
Potential use cases for old mining hardware
90 percent increase in hash rate over the last 6 months
Follow us on Twitter at @whatshalvening
Follow Cassie on Twitter at @bitcoincass
Follow CoinShares on Twitter at @CoinSharesCo
Follow Chris on Twitter at @C_Bendikesen
Link to CoinShares’ website: https://coinsharesgroup.com/
Use code CASS20 for 20% of your ticket to Bitcoin 2020:
https://www.bitcoin2020conference.com/

Welcome to What’s Halvening!
 
Hosted by Cassie Clifton and produced by Bitcoin Magazine, the show chronicles the latest and greatest developments taking shape across the complex and ever-changing cryptocurrency mining industry through interviews with mining experts, CEOs, and general enthusiasts.
 
In this episode of What’s Halvening, Cassie interviews Chase Blackmon, the co-founder and CTO of Immersion Systems. The self-proclaimed “jack of all trades, master of none” developed an immersion cooling system for his mining facility to combat the hot, humid Texas summers. Some of the highlights of the discussion include:
Advantages of immersion-cooled hardware over air-cooled
Heat transfer concepts that give immersion cooling its advantages
Finding a liquid with the right heat transfer properties 
The role of immersion cooling technology in mining decentralization 
The S15 Exploit 
Follow the show on Twitter @whatshalvening
Follow Cassie on Twitter @bitcoincass
Follow Immersion Systems on Twitter @ImmersionSystem
Link to Immersion Systems’ website:
https://immersionsystems.io/
Use code CASS20 for 20% of your ticket to Bitcoin 2020:
https://www.bitcoin2020conference.com/