#233: Raising money in 2020, hashrate derivative products, why no hashrate growth?, and off-grid mining with Nick Hansen
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Join Marty as he sits down with Nick Hansen, co-founder and CEO of Luxor Mining, to discuss:
- Raising money in 2020
- Building as the price of bitcoin crashed
- Hashrate derivative tokens
- Why a miner would sell hash
- Why a retail investor would buy a hash rate token
- Why isn't hash rate keeping up with price
- Mining off grid
- much more
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is up, Freaks? |
| 0:01.0 | It's your boy, Marty here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypting. |
| 0:04.4 | Freaks, freaks, freaks, freaks, freaks. |
| 0:07.5 | I think I fixed the audio. |
| 0:11.3 | Let me know if I did. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm learning here. |
| 0:15.9 | Three and a half years into this podcast. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm learning. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm growing with you. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm trying to get better. I strive to be better |
| 0:22.6 | every day. I've got my roadcaster pro here now. I've been tinkering with it for about a month. |
| 0:28.4 | And guess what? I finally got it connected to Adobe Audition. And I'm recording right into |
| 0:32.6 | audition right now. I figured out that I had to turn my noise gate off. That's what was messing up the audio |
| 0:38.2 | in episodes past, recent episodes. Hopefully this fixes the live RHR issues that we've been having |
| 0:47.3 | as well. Bear with me. Probably not going to be fixed. Probably not going to be fixed. Totally |
| 0:53.9 | fixed. We're getting closer be fixed. Totally fixed. |
| 0:54.3 | But we're getting closer. |
| 0:55.2 | We're getting closer. |
| 0:55.9 | Audio issues. |
| 0:56.7 | Bane of my existence, podcasting. |
| 0:58.7 | Been in it for a while now and I still am learning. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm learning. |
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