The Bitcoin Mining Arms Race with Marshall Long

Published: July 3, 2024, 12:53 p.m.

\u201cAntpool\u2019s in a place, let\u2019s say Foundry\u2019s in a place, whoever, they start doing weird things\u2026miners would just pull their hashrate away; so, where we get into bigger problems is where let\u2019s say Foundry, and Riot, and Marathon, and Cleanspark all get a knock at the same time.\u201d
\u2014 Marshall Long

Marshall Long is the Head of Architecture for Rhodium Enterprises. In this interview, we discuss the risks of mining centralisation from both the miner & pool perspective and how we can mitigate these and the geopolitical arms race for Bitcoin mining.

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