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Podcast: CoinDesk Podcast Network
Episode: THE MINING POD: Block’s New ASIC Miner With Core Scientific and Proto
Description: Jack Dorsey’s Block is making a new Bitcoin ASIC, including a custom shipment of chips to Core Scientific. We dig into the new unit on an exclusive show with the team!Welcome back to the Mining Pod! On today’s show, we have an exclusive with Proto and Core Scientific, who recently announced a collaboration on a new ASIC chip design. Core Scientific–one of the largest Bitcoin miners in the world–will be buying 15 EH/s of chips to make custom units. Meanwhile, Proto will be working on selling more chips and a custom form factor o...