Bitcoin Security and a Rogue Power Plant
A bitcoin miner with an unlicensed power plant leads to a discussion on BTC, security and energy.
ABOUT
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.
Bitcoin's energy usage has long been controversial but this time it's not what you'd expect. A story about a rogue power plant kicks off a wide-ranging discussion between the hosts, touching on key issues like game theory, network security and more.
Links from this episode:
- Bitcoin Miner Facing $5.6M Fine for Starting Rogue Power Plant
- Issue #1138: The network is very secure
- Bitcoin network graphs
- Billionaire Investor Bill Miller Now Has 50% of His Personal Wealth in Bitcoin
Credits
Today’s show featured Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Jonathan Mohan, Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine, with editing by Adam B. Levine and music by Gurtybeats.com. Our episode art was created by Adam B. Levine with Pixelmind.ai
Any questions or comments? Send us an email at [email protected]
HOST
Adam B. Levine joined CoinDesk in 2019 as the editor of its new audio and podcasts division. Previously, Adam founded the long-running Let's Talk Bitcoin! talk show with co-hosts Stephanie Murphy and Andreas M. Antonopoulos.
Finding early success with the show, Adam transformed the podcast's homepage into a full newsdesk and publishing platform, founding the LTB Network in January of 2014 to help broaden the conversation with new and different perspectives. In the Spring of that year, he would go on to launch the first and largest tokenized rewards program for creators and their audience. In what many have called an early influential version of "Steemit"; LTBCOIN, which was awarded to both content creators and members of the audience for participation was distributed until the LTBN was acquired by BTC, Inc. in January of 2017.
With the network launched and growing, in late 2014 Adam turned his attention to the practical challenges of administering the tokenized program and founded Tokenly, Inc. There, he led the development of early tokenized vending machines with Swapbot, tokenized identity solution Tokenpass, e-commerce with TokenMarkets.com and media with Token.fm. Adam owns some BTC, ETH and small positions in a number of other tokens.

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