Bitcoin ASIC breakthroughs and semiconductor physics with Haris Basit
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Show Notes
In this episode, we sit down with Haris Basit, Chief Strategy Officer at Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR) to talk about a massive potential Bitcoin ASIC breakthrough that could severely disrupt the entire bitcoin mining industry. Haris has been involved with bitcoin ASIC development since 2014, and he has a deep background in semiconductor physics.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:09 Background in semiconductor industry
00:03:12 Semiconductor physics
00:07:13 Developing bitcoin ASICs in 2014
00:08:14 Bitcoin ASICs vs other chips
00:11:36 Ordering wafers from TSMC
00:13:32 Chip fabs around the world
00:16:30 Bitdeer vs Bitmain?
00:17:40 Designing and simulating chips
00:20:35 Bitdeer and Jihan Wu
00:24:44 Designing the most efficient bitcoin ASIC
00:26:40 Future ASIC breakthroughs?
00:32:02 Hurdles to building more chip fabs?
00:37:24 Mega bitcoin mining farms?
00:38:31 AI and bitcoin mining interacting
00:41:04 2024 halving
00:43:55 Closing thoughts
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