THE MINING POD: Block’s New ASIC Miner With Core Scientific and Proto

Jack Dorsey’s Block is making a new Bitcoin ASIC, including a custom shipment of chips to Core Scientific. We dig into the new unit on an exclusive show with the team!

Welcome back to the Mining Pod! On today’s show, we have an exclusive with Proto and Core Scientific, who recently announced a collaboration on a new ASIC chip design. Core Scientific–one of the largest Bitcoin miners in the world–will be buying 15 EH/s of chips to make custom units. Meanwhile, Proto will be working on selling more chips and a custom form factor of its own. 

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

03:20 Building hardware at Argo

03:48 Proto miner

05:36 Proto tools development

06:29 Intel chips

08:59 Why is Core Scientific interested in ASIC creation

13:34 Collaboration vs competition

16:06 Interacting with Bitcoin needs to be easier

17:59 Geopolitics

19:54 Having US built ASICs

22:33 Have ASICs gotten better?

25:01 Repairs

27:26 Upgrading rigs

30:09 Form factor changes

35:51 AI & mining

45:36 Is AI driving site design?

50:50 15 exahash or bust?

52:34 EPIC collaboration

56:50 Launch date?

57:28 Open market sales eventually?

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