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Podcast: CoinDesk Podcast Network
Episode: THE MINING POD: Block’s Proto ASIC With Max Guise
Description: For today’s show, we speak with Max Guise about Block’s ASIC miner, and we even get a sneak peak of the new miner!Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Max Guise, a team member from Block’s Proto division, joins to talk about the company’s new ASIC chip. A veteran of Block, Guise has worked on everything from the Proto mining ASIC, to Square’s point-of-sale, and its hardware wallet Bitkey. During the discussion, Guise gives us a brief history of Proto’s origins, discusses the challenges of designing (and manufacturing and marketin...