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BTC099: Michael Saylor's Deep Dive on Bitcoin Energy Misconceptions (Bitcoin Podcast)

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

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The Shaw 256 Mining ASIC Is a Special Purpose ASIC and It's a Security Protocol

The Shaw 256 mining chip is a special purpose that's important. It's not a general purpose chip and it's also getting exponentially more efficient. So the genius of the Bitcoin protocol is that the hardware is proprietary. There's no other use for it and it gets exponentially better over time, such that the energy efficiency of the network is improving with Moore's law and with the having protocol.

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