meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
CoinDesk Podcast Network

THE MINING POD: ZK ASIC Miners With Michael Gao and Nazar Khan

CoinDesk Podcast Network

CoinDesk

Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency, Dlt, Tokenization, Coindesk, Distributed Ledger, Blockchain, Tech News, Business News, Ethereum, Bitcoin, News, Digitalassets, Daily News, Decentralization, Defi, Crypto, Business

4.8689 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We recorded at ETHDenver on the next generation of crypto mining ASICs: Zero-Knowledge (ZK) miners.

Follow along on your favorite podcast player of choice by clicking here.

Michael Gao of Fabric Crypto and Nazar Khan of TeraWulf join the show to discuss bleeding edge inquiry into ZK ASIC hardware, including how they could fit into a Bitcoin mining playbook.

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.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hey, welcome back to Mining Pod.

0:01.4

We recorded live at Eith Denver with Fabric and Terawulf.

0:05.8

Fabrics Michael Gow and Terwolf, Snyder Khan, discuss ZK, ASIC hardware.

0:11.1

It's a bleeding edge conversation about, well, what even is ZK in the first place,

0:14.9

zero knowledge, and then how are we going to develop ASICs around this?

0:18.1

What kind of workload are these ASICs going to do?

0:19.9

And how could they

0:20.9

fit into a Bitcoin mining fleet? Thank you to Fabric and Terrell for joining the show.

0:26.5

It's probably one of the most interesting shows we've had on the podcast, I'd say, in the last

0:29.4

12 months in terms of just the talking points and the general concept of different workloads

0:35.2

for ASICs of then mining Bitcoin. So we go through all that.

0:38.9

What is ZK? What are the markets for this? How it fits into a mining fleet, etc. I'd like to thank

0:44.1

CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin miner, for making this show possible. You'll hear a little bit more from

0:48.1

CleanSpark later in today's episode. If you're watching this on CoinDest TV or on the Blockspace YouTube channel,

0:57.5

you'll notice we miss a little bit of video at the end there, just had a camera die.

1:02.3

Apologies for that, but the audio is fantastic throughout. So please stick around.

1:17.6

Okay, onto the show. Welcome to the mining pod guys. I've for this conversation today.

1:19.1

It's been a long time coming.

1:20.5

Thanks.

1:21.1

Thanks for having me.

1:22.0

Super excited to be here.

1:23.3

And thanks for having you back.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CoinDesk, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CoinDesk and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.