#677: How Bitfury Survived the Early Bitcoin Wars with George Kikvadze & Bill Tai
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast · Marty Bent
October 31, 20251h 30m
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Show Notes
<p>Marty sits down with George Kikvadze and Bill Tai to discuss the early days of building Bitfury, the resilience required to scale Bitcoin infrastructure when the industry was full of doubters, and why Bitcoin remains the ultimate insurance against inevitable government fiscal collapse.</p>
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