The Bitcoin Game 25 - Mining At Scale With Marco Streng - a podcast by Rob Mitchell
from 2015-09-10T14:28:22
Hello, welcome to episode 25 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.
If I were to meet Marco Streng on the street, I’d never guess he hands-on controls perhaps the largest amount of hashing power in the world. Marco is the CEO and cofounder of Genesis mining, a company that mines for profit, and also offers cloud mining. I met Marco back at the State Of Digital Money conference in Los Angeles earlier this year, as he was one of the speakers.
I've always been skeptical about cloud mining. At worst, you're simply putting money into a ponzi scheme. At best, you have to trust that even a legit company doesn’t get hacked, go broke, or have another issue that can beset any company. Yet Marco was able to restore my trust that there are legitimate companies providing cloud-mining services. Of course, there’s always the unknown variables of future price and future difficulty, which can render a net loss, to even the best-laid cloud-mining plans.
Stepping back from profitability concerns, cloud-mining services enable smaller players to help secure the network. So I think anyone who supports the security of Bitcoin can see the benefit of legitimate cloud-mining services, which reduces the friction for eager miners to contribute hash power to the network.
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SHOW LINKS
Genesis Mining
https://www.genesis-mining.com
New York's BitLicense
http://www.dfs.ny.gov/legal/regulations/adoptions/dfsp200t.pdf
BitcoinXT
https://bitcoinxt.software/#sec-hardfork
SideChains White Paper
https://blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf
Lightning Network
https://lightning.network
BIP-100
https://github.com/jgarzik/bip100/blob/master/bip-0100.mediawiki#Abstract
BIP-101
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0101.mediawiki#Abstract
BIP-102
https://github.com/jgarzik/bips/blob/2015_2mb_blocksize/bip-0102.mediawiki#Abstract
Bitcoin Wisdom - Mining Calculator
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator
Bitcoin Wisdom - Difficulty
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty
Bitcoin Magazine - Possible $500,000 Bitcoin Cloud Mining Ponzi Scheme Uncoveredhttps://bitcoinmagazine.com/20702/exclusive-possible-500000-bitcoin-cloud-mining-ponzi-scheme-uncovered
Life Inside A Bitcoin Mine (streaming video from Genesis Mining's Iceland facility)
http://www.lifeinsideabitcoinmine.com
Here's a YouTube video of Marco's presentation at the The State Of Digital Money 2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAXtTftPTkI
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MUSIC
All the music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by me! If you're curious, the music was created in GarageBand (by Apple), Animoog (by Moog Music), and Figure (by Propellerhead). Please contact me if you'd like more info about any music you hear on the podcast.
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