We chat with Ethan Vera, CFO and Co-Founder of Luxor Technologies, one of the largest Bitcoin and altcoin mining pools in North America. We cover topics including: mining pool business model, the Luxor profit switching pool, their enterprise partnerships, and the volatility of mining luck . Ethan breaks down the anatomy of hashrate and the emergence of hashrate as an asset class and how that is fast becoming an important topic of conversation within the crypto finance world. He also gives his take on whether the top 3 Chinese exchanges: Binance, Huobi, and OKEx will eventually get into the hashrate futures game now that they all own mining pools. Tune in to find out!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction and background
02:02 Mining Pool 101
06:46 Profit Switching in Mining Pools
09:51 Institutional Demand
11:43 Assessing Mining Pool Risk
12:56 Anatomy of Hashrate
13:45 Hashprice - The Value of Hashrate
15:59 Volatility of Hashprice
19:38 New Mining Pools - Binance, Lubian
22:07 Hashrate Futures Market
28:29 Rapid Fire
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