Okay, today on the program a very important episode friend of the pod Jacob Helberg is on to talk

about his new book the Wires of War technology and the global struggle for power great book and we

have a really deep, deep conversation about Russian disinformation China Taiwan what's happening

with internet companies in China and what the US's position should be with Taiwan and long term

how we will compete with China and to a lesser extent Russia and deal with Russian disinformation

and how close are we to war it's a really important episode you if you've been reading the news

you've been watching what's happening Taiwan you've been watching the plans flying you've been

watching the buildup of our military Australia buying um submarines this is an important topic

and we go deep on it and it affects the technology industry at its core because as you know

Taiwan has the most important semiconductor company in the world based there but first

over the past three months the US overtook China as the world leader in Bitcoin servers and

hash rate and mining so we'll get into that as well stick with us this weekend startups is brought

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weeks okay in our top story today the US has overtaken China as the biggest hub of Bitcoin mining

no surprise we all know that China has had enough of cryptocurrency they're obviously going to have

their own sovereign you know e-cash crypto equivalent and they do not want to give up their currency

to a bunch of random who's building a distributed network that nobody controls big shocker there

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