The Bitcoin Mining Arms Race with Marshall Long - WBD834

Mr Obnoxious

Peter McCormack

Technology, News, Politics, Money, Investing, Finance, Bitcoin

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Marshall Long is the Head of Architecture for Rhodium Enterprises. In this interview, we discuss the risks of mining centralisation from both the miner & pool perspective and how we can mitigate these and the geopolitical arms race for Bitcoin mining.

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0:00.0	And Pool is in a place, let's say Foundry is in a place, whoever.
0:05.0	We start doing weird things, miners would just simply pull their hash right away.
0:10.0	So where we're getting at bigger problems is where, let's say Foundry and Riot and Marathon and Clean Spark, all get a knock at the same time.
0:21.0	Hello there from Bethford, I hope you crazy Bitcoin is all doing well.
0:25.0	Pretty busy here.
0:27.0	We've got a friendly starting this weekend for Real Bedford.
0:29.0	The men are away at Risborough on Saturday and the women are away against Maidenhead.
0:35.0	And so we've got a bunch of friendlies across July, ready for the season starting in August.
0:40.0	I'm going to be heading out away on the 13th.
0:42.8	We're going to have a holiday for a week
0:44.2	before heading out to Nashville for the conference.
0:46.3	Very excited about that.
0:48.0	Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast,
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1:05.3	I'm your host Peter McCormack and today I've got my good buddy Marshall Long back on the show.
1:10.0	Now Marshall is an O.G. Bitcoin. He has been around since 2010 as a miner down in Texas.
1:17.0	So in this show I wanted to get in some of the historical Bitcoin forks.
1:22.0	Marshall was there amongst the whole mix of it. The risks of
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