Block’s New ASIC Miner With Core Scientific and Proto

Welcome back to the Mining Pod! On today’s show, we have an exclusive with Proto and Core Scientific, who recently announced a collaboration on a new ASIC chip design. Core Scientific–one of the largest Bitcoin miners in the world–will be buying 15 EH/s of chips to make custom units. Meanwhile, Proto will be working on selling more chips and a custom form factor of its own. 

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