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15. Bitcoin mining with Stephen Barbour

In today's seminar we host Stephen Barbour, founder and CEO of Upstream Data, Inc. We discuss Upstream's unique products which allow for mining bitcoin off of methane gas that cannot be sold economically otherwise. We also discuss the economics of Bitcoin mining, the difficulty adjustment, and different energy sources.

Upstream Data's website.

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347. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Launch Lecture

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347. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Launch Lecture
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The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

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Saifedean revisits The Bitcoin Standard almost ten years after writing it. The first lecture covers the prologue: Bitcoin’s origins, how it gained value, and why it is digital cash and digital hard money.

Watch the lecture and follow the series on The Bitcoin Standard Course page.