THE MINING POD: Bitmain’s Newest ASIC Miner

The next generation of ASIC Bitcoin miners was revealed last week in Las Vegas, NV at WDMS. The Mining Pod was on the ground to take a look! 

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Will and Charlie jump on the microphone to discuss Bitmain’s newest ASICs, the S21 XP and S21 XP Hydro miners! We compare against other ASICs like Canaan, Bitdeer and MicroBT while taking a larger view about how the ASIC market is going to transform over the next few years. We cover topics like AI infrastructure, commoditization of chips and how to compete in a centralized ASIC market!

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

04:11 S21 Hydro

06:53 Rackspace & rigs swapping

13:46 AntSpaces

15:56 Bitmain competitors

22:54 Rig "commoditization"

26:18 New Rig makers

42:46 Final thoughts

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