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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#151: Marshall Long

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with long time bitcoiner + miner Marshall Long to discuss:

- How Marshall got into Bitcoin mining

- Why he only mines Bitcoin now

- Evolution of chips

- Chip fabrication foundries 

- Stories of procuring miners in China

- The evolution of culture in China

- The future of Bitcoin mining

- much more

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So, freaks, it's your boy, Marty here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt

0:03.9

of the immense pleasure of sitting down with a man by the name of Marshall Long,

0:07.9

somebody's been in Bitcoin for far longer than most people on this planet.

0:13.2

He started mining Bitcoin in 2011 and has been on an insane journey since then.

0:18.3

We sit down to talk about that journey, some of the insane stories

0:24.2

he's created or developed along the way, particularly trips to China to inspect miners,

0:31.4

make sure that they were up to snuff for his operations and the characters he met along

0:36.7

the way.

0:40.3

This was a fascinating episode for me particularly.

0:47.4

Marshall has a perspective that I have not been exposed to very, very often, and has a unique view on China, what's going on there, the culture there, the economy there, and a very

0:53.3

de-ons view of people on the ground the chinese citizens

0:57.5

and in the ccp so i think you guys are really going to like this episode uh this episode is brought

1:03.0

to you by your good friends at the cash app you freaks already know all about them they're helping

1:06.8

us do many things they're helping us stack sats they're helping us stack slivers of stonks if you

1:10.6

want to you don't have to but if you want to to, you can. All right? I know a bunch of you

1:14.6

freaks yell at me for talking about the stonks. You know what? I'm going to keep talking about

1:19.2

the stonks is you can do it via cash app investing now. If your favorite st letting you invest as little as $1. All right. Get over it. It's possible.

1:29.9

Optionality exists. On top of that, they have their boost program, which allows you to get a very

1:37.0

personalized debit card. They partner with merchants. You use that debit card at those merchants,

1:41.7

and you save some money, and you can stack some sets with that money you save if you so please because cash app is directly connected to

1:48.8

your bank account there's no four to five day waiting periods you can start investing today

1:52.7

and stacking sets today and using the boost program today cash app investing particularly

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