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Podcast: On The Brink with Castle Island
Episode: Brian Venturo (CoreWeave) on the journey from mining crypto to the cloud
Description: Brian Venturo is the CTO of CoreWeave, the largest North American GPU miner, which also doubles as a cloud infrastructure firm for general computation. In this episode:Â How Brian went from hobbyist Ethereum mining to wielding a fleet of 50,000 GPUs How Core Weave was able to cheaply acquire GPUs from insolvent mining farms The implications of the Ethereum DAG file growing beyond 4 GB and its effect on miners The effect of the looming PoS transition on miner decision-making Why Core Weave specifically limited their GPU fleet to NVIDIAs with more memory Brian's stance on Ethereum's transition to Proof o...