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Today we are joined by Alen Makhmetov a miner in Kazakhstan to talk about the realities of operating in that country.
Alen Makhmetov: https://twitter.com/alenmakhmetov
Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Start
00:48 Alen profile
02:49 Mining in Russia
03:56 Mining is Kazakhstan
05:05 New regulation
07:13 Energy landscape
08:33 On-grid mining ops
09:35 China ban effect
11:47 Grid outages
15:09 4 points of new laws
17:16 National mining pool
20:34 Russia war
22:16 Importing ASICs
23:41 Russia energy cost
25:15 Crypto payments in ops
26:03 Future of mining in K and R
27:44 Large miners in K
28:25 Will R increase mining
29:14 The halving
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