BREAKDOWN: New Data Shows Underground Bitcoin Mining Thriving in China
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🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The U.S. has also expanded its lead in the global hashrate competition.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR and FTX US.
The U.S. has also expanded its lead in the global hashrate competition.
On today’s episode of “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at new bitcoin mining data from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly, depending on whom you ask), China is back at the No. 2 spot in global hashrate, despite there ostensibly being a full bitcoin mining ban. NLW also looks at the finance conference that has brought representatives of 44 countries to El Salvador, where they’re learning about bitcoin among other topics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:14.9 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, near an FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDes. |
| 0:22.7 | What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, May 17th, and today we are talking about some interesting |
| 0:28.6 | new Bitcoin mining research. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, |
| 0:35.1 | please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, |
| 0:38.5 | or if you want to dig deeper into the conversation, come join us on the breakers discord. |
| 0:43.7 | You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.le slash breakdown pod. |
| 0:48.0 | Also a disclosure, as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also work with FTX. |
| 0:56.6 | Now today, we are finally going to shift away from Luna. The whole story around it is sort of splitting into two very different and |
| 1:03.2 | distinct things. There is, of course, the inside Terra story, which is all about what comes next |
| 1:09.7 | and under whose leadership and how will things be |
| 1:12.4 | made right. And this is just going to be an absolute morass for a while. There seems to be a |
| 1:18.8 | significant disinterest in the Fork slash Luna Classic plan that has been proposed by Doe Kwan. |
| 1:25.3 | And there are questions of confidence in leadership in general and whether |
| 1:28.2 | Doe needs to step aside. Those are, of course, important questions for that community, and the better |
| 1:33.9 | they resolve, the better for everyone involved. However, that's not really the piece to me which is |
| 1:38.8 | most significant right now, and that, of course, is the larger regulatory implications. |
| 1:43.6 | Those are going to be playing out over |
| 1:45.0 | time in a matter of weeks, months, and even years now rather than days. And as it does, of course, |
| 1:51.0 | we'll keep track of how this massive cataclysmic event shapes those discourses going forward. |
| 1:57.4 | However, even as all of this has been happening, the rest of the crypto world hasn't slowed down. |
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