THE MINING POD: Enter Swan Mining, With Rapha Zagury

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Swan launched a large mining company out of stealth. The question is … how? Follow along on your favorite podcast player of choice by clicking here. Bitcoin financial services company announced its 4.5 EH/s Bitcoin mining operation the other week, turning heads across the Bitcoin ecosystem. Why is a financial services company getting into Bitcoin mining and how did they do it so sneakily? We find out with Rapha Zagury, CIO of Swan and head of Swan Mining. 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 Tuesday and a news show on Friday! Check out our other shows and content by going to Blockspace.media today. Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is 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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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back to the Mining Pod. On today's show, we are joined by Raffles,
0:03.3	the CIO at Swan, and also the head of mining at Swan Mining, a new project that just
0:08.4	launched with 4.5 X-A-Hash on a deployment and a target of 8XHash. It's a really great conversation
0:14.9	answering all the questions people have had about this stealth launch from Swan. So we get into
0:20.4	basics, energy, JV, partners, and also
0:24.5	plans for Swan going public in the near future. We want to thank Clean Spark, America's
0:29.8	Bitcoin Minor, for making this show possible. You will hear from Clean Spark a little bit later
0:34.1	in the episode. Before we jump into the episode, we want to ask people to go and subscribe to blockspace.
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0:50.9	in your inbox twice per week.
0:52.8	This week we'll have a great piece from secure digital markets or SDM talking about a lot of
0:58.1	things that happened in 2023 and forward looking 24 for Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining to go
1:03.4	and check that out.
1:04.6	Okay, just jump right into the episode. Welcome back to the mining pod.
1:20.3	Today we're joined by the CIO of Swan Rafa Zaguri.
1:24.0	Welcome to the show.
1:24.9	Really excited for today's conversation.
1:27.1	Thanks, Bill. Great to be here. Listen Really excited for today's conversation. Thanks, Will.
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