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Bitcoin Mining 101 with Sam Wouters (WiM320)

The "What is Money?" Show

CHAPTER

The Future of Bitcoin Mining

The first reports came from Venezuela, where a lot of miners got confiscated by the government and then like people suspect likely being put to work. Then there is Iran, where a pretty similar thing happened, I think where they introduced some kind of law to limit how much miners were able to be operating. Recently there have been reports from Bhutan that they owned a sizable portion of Bitcoin and that they're now also raising a fund to get more into Bitcoin mining because they have energy available for it. People in general have been talking more about our nation states going to get into mining or not. A lot of people feel like that is inevitable. Whether it'll happen, it might increasingly happen, it

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