#399: Bitcoin Mining is Igniting an Engineering Renaissance with Rete and Isaac from Cathedra
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Join Marty as he sits down with Rete Browning and Isaac Fithian from Cathedra to discuss the origins of off-grid bitcoin mining, their findings on over/underclocking ASICs, and the direction the mining industry is headed.
Check out Cathedra: https://www.cathedra.com/
7:38 - Great American Mining: Origins
18:24 - The state of off grid mining
22:17 - Designing for diverse domains
24:01 - Deadly details
31:09 - Pioneer challenges
34:57 - Applying bitcoin and mining everywhere
39:52 - Cathedra research on over/underclocking
48:29 - How heat affects chips
53:34 - Finding the sweet spot
56:47 - The future of mining and energy
1:12:55 - Changing the ASIC market
1:19:40 - Bullish vibes, creating an engineering renaissance
1:31:27 - Wrapping up
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| 0:00.0 | Did you mute my mic? It's on now. |
| 0:08.8 | You can hear myself now, Logan. |
| 0:11.7 | Logan, I'm sorry for keeping you waiting. |
| 0:14.3 | It's been 10,000 years since we've recorded the episode. |
| 0:19.6 | Two hours. |
| 0:21.6 | Two hours. Two hours. |
| 0:22.4 | Same thing. |
| 0:23.3 | 10,000 years in Bitcoin time. |
| 0:27.4 | 399. |
| 0:28.6 | 399. |
| 0:29.6 | Ripped 399. |
| 0:30.6 | I sat down some good friends of mine |
| 0:33.6 | I've been working with |
| 0:35.6 | for quite some time in the mining industry, |
| 0:38.7 | Reeve Browning and Isaac Fithian, two killers that not many people know about. |
| 0:46.9 | I think you guys are going to enjoy this one, especially if you're in the mining industry, |
| 0:49.1 | if you're looking for some alpha on running mining operations. |
| 0:55.9 | We just leaked a lot of it. |
| 0:59.1 | Did any of the alpha get on you, Logan? |
| 1:07.1 | It evaporated in the two hours it took for the episode. |
| 1:12.0 | So the alpha has evaporated into Logan's skin. |
| 1:13.8 | This rip was brought to you by our good friends at River. |
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