H4shr8 Crypto Mining Podcast

Today we are joined by Matt Williams, head of derivatives at Luxor Technologies. Matt is an expert on commodities trading and built Luxor’s new hashrate derivative, a product that allows miners to buy and sell hashrate. https://luxor.tech/derivatives https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/10/10/crypto-services-firm-luxor-to-offer-derivatives-for-bitcoin-miners-to-hedge-risk/ Matt Williams: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-williams-0a1b592b/ Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley TIMESTAMPS: 00:00  Start 00:25  Intro 01:11 Meet Matt 01:21 Intro 02:42 Hashrate as a commodity 04:04 Defining hashrate as commodity 05:30 Why hedge against hashrate? 08:18 Changing the thinking about hashrate 00:13:25:09 Seller of hashrate example 00:14:26:11 Buyer of hashrate example 00:15:59:23 Creating the index 00:18:36:01 Creating the marketplace 00:21:42:27 Customer requirements and security 00:25:12:13 Technical specifics 00:26:09:27 Regulation future 00:28:37:17 Product future 00:31:01:21 Cycles