#1393 Jason Les | Largest Bitcoin Miner Responds To Critics
The Pomp Podcast
Anthony Pompliano
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Jason Les is the CEO of Riot Platforms, one of the largest miners in North America. They are a publicly traded company that is exclusively focused on mining as much bitcoin as possible. In this conversation, we talk about public policy, politicians becoming interested in bitcoin mining, what is going on with the bitcoin halving, hardware updates, rise of AI, competition for power, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Many of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp |
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| 0:26.5 | world's most interesting people. So let's get in to today's episode. What's up guys? Bang Bang. |
| 0:32.0 | Today we've got Jason Les. Jason is the CEO of Riot Platforms. They're one of the largest |
| 0:37.0 | miners in North America. |
| 0:38.5 | They're a publicly traded company that is exclusively focused on mining as much Bitcoin as they possibly can. |
| 0:43.8 | In this conversation, we talk about public policy, why politicians are becoming so interested in Bitcoin mining. |
| 0:49.5 | What is going on with the halving? |
| 0:51.2 | How the hardware updates are implementing across the industry, |
| 0:55.2 | what to think about the rise of AI and the competition for power, how load balancing is working |
| 1:00.1 | down in Texas, and much, much more. Jason is always at the forefront of thinking through many |
| 1:04.9 | of these issues. He's built a very large and very interesting company, and so it's super |
| 1:09.4 | excited to talk to him. Here is my conversation |
| 1:11.8 | with Jason Les. Anthony Pompliano runs Pomp Investments. All views of him and the guests on his |
| 1:18.6 | podcast are surely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Pomp investments. You should not |
| 1:23.6 | treat any opinion expressed by Pomp or his guest as a specific inducement to make |
| 1:28.4 | a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an expression of his personal |
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| 1:39.2 | Meanwhile. Meanwhile is the world's first license and regulated life insurance company built for |
| 1:43.8 | the Bitcoin economy. |
| 1:45.2 | Operating on the Bitcoin standard, they do everything in Bitcoin. |
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