Hey, welcome back to the mining pod. On today's show, we're going back in time into the archives

to celebrate the Bitcoin happening with the show from October of 2021 with Alex Gladstein

of the Human Rights Foundation and Diverter, who wrote mining for the streets. We're also

joined by our former co-host, Zach Full for this conversation. This is one of our best

performing episodes ever, and it takes a zoomed-out

approach on why Bitcoin mining matters, why a Bitcoin miner as a sovereign individual has the

ability to separate money and state from the genesis of that money, which is Bitcoin mining.

So great conversation here. Again, one of our all-time best-performing podcast, because it does

really cast

a new lens on what bitcoin mining is all about yeah we talk about software yeah we talk about

some bolts all the time bitcoin mining maybe some technical stuff but this is why

bitcoin mining really matters okay before we get into the show we want to thank clean spark

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