Wolfie Zhao, Asia editor at CoinDesk, details how Jihan Wu ousted his cofounder Micree Zhan at the Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain last week, how he justified the coup at a[…]
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After Massive Layoffs and Losses, What Are Bitmain’s Future Prospects?
Blockstream chief strategy officer Samson Mow, who used to work at a competitor to Bitmain, discusses the recent news that the crypto mining manufacturer suffered a $500 million loss in[…]
Asia Edition: Mining, a Crypto Yuan and the Two Main Reasons the Chinese Are Interested in Crypto – Ep.102
In this wide-ranging episode, Eric Meltzer and Dovey Wan of Primitive Ventures describe how Asia is weathering the crypto downturn: how have the low prices affected miners, how has this[…]
CoinFund’s Jake Brukhman and Multicoin’s Tushar Jain on Generalized Mining – Ep.92
Jake Brukhman of CoinFund and Tushar Jain of Multicoin Capital discuss a new trend among crypto funds: generalized mining, also called mining 2.0, in which investors participate in the networks[…]
Why ASICs May Be Better Than GPUs Even if They Tend Toward Mining Centralization – Ep.67
David Vorick, CEO of Nebulous, which operates Siacoin and a new subsidiary, Obelisk, describes what he’s discovered in his exploration of the mining industry, including why he’s decided that specialized[…]
Bitfury on the Ways It Collaborates With Governments and Why It’s Partnered With a Public Company
Valery Vavilov and George Kikvadze of Bitcoin mining and blockchain software company Bitfury discuss why the firm has partnered with the publicly traded Hut 8, how it plans to branch[…]
Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital on the Crypto Downturn and Why It Could Change Direction
Ari Paul, CIO of BlockTower Capital, discusses the slump in crypto prices, and how infrastructure rolling out over the rest of the year could have a positive effect on the[…]