Welcome to the What Bitcoin Did Podcast.

Hello, how are you all?

Welcome to the third episode of the What Bitcoin Did Podcast.

I am your host Peter McCormackack and I am a full-time

Bitcoin and crypto trader, blogger, podcaster and soon to be miner. Yes I am now

going into the mining game. I've been looking at it for a while. I've been talking

about it with my buddy Chad and I have finally bought my first bunch of mining gear. So this is going to be

delivered at the end of January and hopefully will we have an ex set up by February.

I have been sharing all the details about this with my Facebook group, why I'm going to be doing it,

and I will probably be sticking some articles about it up on my website.

I've gone into it for a couple of reasons.

Firstly, I've got super busy with the podcast and the website so I wanted a way of hedging my investing and

actually mining bit coins rather than just trying to buy them to sell them at a

profit and secondly just to increase my knowledge you know by being involved in

Bitcoin mining I will understand it a bit more so yes I will share more

information about this in the future so in the first two podcast I interviewed crypto traders and I don't want to do this every week

I think it could get a bit repetitive asking the same questions but also I think as traders

it's really important we understand the market we're trading in so I want to meet as many different and interesting people in the space that we can learn from so we can broaden our

knowledge and have a deeper level of understanding of how blockchain and

crypto works and in this third episode I've got another gem I feel really lucky to do this because

I've got a Bitcoin badass Mr Jameson Lop. He first came on my radar during the scaling debate, something which at times I struggled to understand,

but he kept popping up on Twitter when the key kind of leading figures within Bitcoin

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