H4shr8 Crypto Mining Podcast

The hardware game is becoming more competitive, with new entrants like Jack Dorsey’s Block, Marathon Digital-backed Auradine and more. And then there’s this whole AI thing which mining CEOs and others keep talking about!  To make it straight, we brought on ePIC Blockchain co-founder Earl Mai to discuss ePIC’s hardware product line, the difficulties of getting a hardware startup off the ground, what its like to compete against Bitmain and how mining–and AI–could converge together over the next few years! Chapter Markers: 00:00 Start 03:07 Earl's background 04:51 ePIC's products 05:45 Earl's early mining days 09:50 Moving from alts to bitcoin 12:46 ASIC design process 15:36 Why Bitmain dominates? 20:15 Bitmian chip design 21:51 Don't fight Bitmain 24:41 Components 26:18 Shoebox form factor 27:39 How not to get scammed 29:37 Next gen ASICS 30:34 Intel update 31:20 Competition in the space 33:14 Is Bitmain slowing template propagation? 39:06 Competitive edge on open network 40:43 Where's the new competitive edg