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INTERVIEW: The Future Of Mining Hardware
Manage episode 423056027 series 2592246
The hardware game is becoming more competitive, with new entrants like Jack Dorsey’s Block, Marathon Digital-backed Auradine and more. And then there’s this whole AI thing which mining CEOs and others keep talking about!
To make it straight, we brought on ePIC Blockchain co-founder Earl Mai to discuss ePIC’s hardware product line, the difficulties of getting a hardware startup off the ground, what its like to compete against Bitmain and how mining–and AI–could converge together over the next few years!
Chapter Markers:
00:00 Start
03:07 Earl's background
04:51 ePIC's products
05:45 Earl's early mining days
09:50 Moving from alts to bitcoin
12:46 ASIC design process
15:36 Why Bitmain dominates?
20:15 Bitmian chip design
21:51 Don't fight Bitmain
24:41 Components
26:18 Shoebox form factor
27:39 How not to get scammed
29:37 Next gen ASICS
30:34 Intel update
31:20 Competition in the space
33:14 Is Bitmain slowing template propagation?
39:06 Competitive edge on open network
40:43 Where's the new competitive edge?
44:20 AI and Bitcoin Mining
Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday!
👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show.
👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty!
Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.
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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!
"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset.
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Manage episode 423056027 series 2592246
The hardware game is becoming more competitive, with new entrants like Jack Dorsey’s Block, Marathon Digital-backed Auradine and more. And then there’s this whole AI thing which mining CEOs and others keep talking about!
To make it straight, we brought on ePIC Blockchain co-founder Earl Mai to discuss ePIC’s hardware product line, the difficulties of getting a hardware startup off the ground, what its like to compete against Bitmain and how mining–and AI–could converge together over the next few years!
Chapter Markers:
00:00 Start
03:07 Earl's background
04:51 ePIC's products
05:45 Earl's early mining days
09:50 Moving from alts to bitcoin
12:46 ASIC design process
15:36 Why Bitmain dominates?
20:15 Bitmian chip design
21:51 Don't fight Bitmain
24:41 Components
26:18 Shoebox form factor
27:39 How not to get scammed
29:37 Next gen ASICS
30:34 Intel update
31:20 Competition in the space
33:14 Is Bitmain slowing template propagation?
39:06 Competitive edge on open network
40:43 Where's the new competitive edge?
44:20 AI and Bitcoin Mining
Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday!
👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show.
👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty!
Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.
-
Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!
"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset.
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