What's Halvening - The Bitcoin Mining Podcast

What's Halvening, crypto nerds? Hosted by Cassie Clifton and produced by Bitcoin Magazine, the show chronicles the latest and greatest developments taking shape across the complex and ever-changing cryptocurrency mining industry through interviews with mining experts, CEOs and early enthusiasts. This is a show about energy, geopolitics, China and, of course, cryptocurrency.

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Episodes

Ep. 7: Justin Podhola on Vertical Integration in Bitcoin Mining and Going All in on Renewables

Welcome to What’s Halvening! Hosted by Cassie Clifton and produced by Bitcoin Magazine, the show chronicles the latest and greatest developments taking shape across the complex and ever-changing cryptocurrency mining industry through interviews with mining experts, CEOs, and general enthusiasts. In this episode of What’s Halvening, Cassie interviews Justin Podhola, CEO & founder of Washington-based Elite Mining Inc, or EMI. EMI is building a vertically integrated mining facility that will be...

Feb 27, 2020•1 hr 17 min

Ep. 6: Nick Hansen & Eddie Wang on the Need for Transparency and Spot Markets in Bitcoin Mining

Welcome to What's Halvening! Hosted by Cassie Clifton and produced by Bitcoin Magazine, the show chronicles the latest and greatest developments taking shape across the complex and ever-changing cryptocurrency mining industry through interviews with mining experts, CEOs, and general enthusiasts. In this episode of What's Halvening, Cassie interviews Nick Hansen and Eddie Wang, co-founders of Luxor Tech, North America’s largest mining pool operator. Today we discuss why Luxor was founded and what...

Feb 04, 2020•55 min

Ep. 5: Bringing Transparency & Open-Source Software to Bitcoin Mining with Braiins' Pavel Moravec & Jan Čapek

Welcome to What’s Halvening! Hosted by Cassie Clifton and produced by Bitcoin Magazine, the show chronicles the latest and greatest developments taking shape across the complex and ever-changing cryptocurrency mining industry through interviews with mining experts, CEOs, and general enthusiasts. In this episode of What’s Halvening, Cassie interviews Pavel Moravec and Jan Čapek, co-founders of Braiins, the company that operates SlushPool. Braiins launched the first open-source initiative for Bitc...

Jan 08, 2020•1 hr 9 min

Ep 4: Chris Bendiksen on Balancing the Grid with Bitcoin Mining

Hosted by Cassie Clifton and produced by Bitcoin Magazine, the show chronicles the latest and greatest developments taking shape across the complex and ever-changing cryptocurrency mining industry through interviews with mining experts, CEOs, and general enthusiasts.In this episode of What’s Halvening, Cassie interviews Christopher Bendiksen, head of research at CoinShares. Chris has been a pioneer in helping dispel a lot of the “Bitcoin Will Burn Down the Planet” myths. We discuss the following...

Dec 24, 2019•1 hr 11 min

Ep 3: Chase Blackmon on Immersion Cooling as an Alternative to Air-Cooled Mines

Welcome to What’s Halvening! Hosted by Cassie Clifton and produced by Bitcoin Magazine, the show chronicles the latest and greatest developments taking shape across the complex and ever-changing cryptocurrency mining industry through interviews with mining experts, CEOs, and general enthusiasts. In this episode of What’s Halvening, Cassie interviews Chase Blackmon, the co-founder and CTO of Immersion Systems. The self-proclaimed “jack of all trades, master of none” developed an immersion cooling...

Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 4 min

Ep 2: Apolline Blandin and John Quigley on Bitcion Energy Consumption

Welcome to What’s Halvening! Hosted by Cassie Clifton and produced by Bitcoin Magazine, the show chronicles the latest and greatest developments taking shape across the complex and ever-changing cryptocurrency mining industry through interviews with mining experts, CEOs, and general enthusiasts. In the second episode of What’s Halvening, Cassie interviews Apolline Blandin, research manager at the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance (CCAF), and John Quigley, the head of research at MinerUpda...

Nov 26, 2019•56 min

Ep 1: Eyal Avramovich on Cryptocurrency Mining Sell Pressure and Demand

Welcome to What's Halvening! Hosted by Cassie Clifton and produced by Bitcoin Magazine, the show chronicles the latest and greatest developments taking shape across the complex and ever-changing cryptocurrency mining industry through interviews with mining experts, CEOs and general enthusiasts. In episode one, Cassie interviews the CEO of Minebest, Eyal Avramovich. Cassie and Eyal talk about Eyal's background in consumer electronics, how to talk to regulators about building a sustainable economi...

Nov 04, 2019•39 min

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