• 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 <$2,000

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!

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

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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

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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/

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• 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

• 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 

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 the second episode of What’s Halvening, Cassie interviews Apolline Blandin, research manager at the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance (CCAF), and John Quigley, the head of research at MinerUpdate.Taking place at MinerUpdate’s MinerSummit event in Chengdu, China, their conversation covers a wide range of topics, from the methodology used to create the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI) & why a decentralized payment network is a good use of energy to the Belle Epoque period under the gold standard.

Follow us on Twitter at: @whatshalvening

Find links to the studies and projects mentioned in today’s episode below:

Cambridge Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index

MinerUpdate

Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance

MinerSummit

The Carbon Footprint of Bitcoin

Nic Carter blog post – It's the settlerment assurances, stupid

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 episode one, Cassie interviews the CEO of Minebest, Eyal Avramovich. Cassie and Eyal talk about Eyal's background in consumer electronics, how to talk to regulators about building a sustainable economic environment for mining, and more. 

• Minebest
• Digitalmining.org

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