The russians and the chinese are interesting because they're playing slightly different games, ah, fallowing similar play books. For russia, it's really about disruption. They just want to so chaos, so we're off our game, and they don't look so bad to their populace. The real money and the end game is going to be fought on what i call the back end, in a hardware battle of the greywr which is really being waged by china.
Jason does a short news segment on China’s Bitcoin Mining hash rate falling to 0 and how the U.S. is now the largest mining hub (1:59). Then, Jacob Helberg author of "The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power," joins to discuss China's long-term goals (9:03), the United States' lack of preparedness, the struggle for control of front-end and backend technologies (32:22), plus much more.