From $7B Nvidia Buyout To Bitcoin Mining W/ Alon Webman

September 28, 2023

We speak with Chain Reaction co-founder Alon Webman about his new Israeli startup building Bitcoin ASICs. We discuss his background at Mellanox Technologies, purchased by Nvidia for $7 billion in 2019, to forming Chain Reaction and taking on the incumbent players in Bitcoin mining.

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