TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
01:16 - Meet Skot, the mind behind Bitaxe
02:34 - From IoT projects to bitcoin mining innovation
05:20 - Skot’s bitcoin origin story and the PayPal saga
09:35 - Mining bitcoin with university lab FPGAs
12:11 - Why Skot started the first open-source ASIC miner
14:55 - The challenges of open-source bitcoin mining hardware
19:59 - Bitaxe vs. Bitmain: efficiency showdown
21:25 - Who’s building Bitaxes and why?
25:01 - The importance of open-source mining for bitcoin’s future
28:26 - Can Bitaxe become a significant part of bitcoin’s hash rate?
33:39 - The dream of decentralized mining in household devices
41:02 - The future of bitcoin mining: big grids vs. home miners
47:06 - Skot’s take on mining centralization risks
53:37 - How open-source mining could save bitcoin