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THE MINING POD: Bitcoin Mining in South America with Erick Vera

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4.7698 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Erick Vera joins The Mining Pod to talk about bitcoin mining in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and beyond in South America. Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Erick Vera, the Latin America business development lead at Luxor, joins today to discuss the bitcoin mining industry in South America. Vera gives us a rundown of the region’s bitcoin mining hotspots – namely, Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil – and digs into the nuances, challenges, and opportunities bitcoin miners face in each country, including Paraguay’s gobs of hydro power, Brazil’s abandoned manufacturing sites that are ready for miners, and Argentina’s oil and gas field bitcoin mines. He also touches on other South America countries he thinks are primed for bitcoin mining adoption.  Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:14 Countries active in Latin America? 03:17 Venezuela 04:59 Active MW 06:00 Brazil & Argentina 12:45 Brazil & Paraguay hyrdopower 15:18 Paraguay regulations 21:04 Import tariffs 24:59 More tariffs, more problems 30:57 Migration & business classification 34:02 Slow growth in Brazil? 37:06 Abandoned industrial sites 40:55 Argentina 46:22 Argentina off grid sites 48:16 Other promising sites 51:07 Wrap up Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday!  👉Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show! Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And Luxor Tech, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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What's going on, y'all?

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Welcome back to the mining pod.

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For today's show, we eric vera business development

0:55.9

lead for latin america at luxur technologies to talk about bitcoin mining and latin america

1:02.2

zooming in specifically on the bitcoin mining regions of brazil paraguay and argentina

1:09.3

eric brings a wealth of knowledge about the area. He's been active in

1:13.3

it for a few years now, doing everything from mining pole BD to ASIC brokerage, to discovery, and all

1:22.0

of the good things that you need to do when doing business in the region. So he's got the lowdown

1:26.5

on a lot of the operational considerations that miners go through

1:29.4

when operating in these regions, the regulatory hurdles they have to clear, and a bunch of other

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stuff.

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