Mining in Kazakhstan | Alen Makhmetov | The Mining Pod

Today we are joined by Alen Makhmetov a miner in Kazakhstan to talk about the realities of operating in that country. Alen Makhmetov: https://twitter.com/alenmakhmetov Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley SPONSOR MinerMag is a research and data portal focusing on institutional bitcoin miners, consolidating company-level and network-wise data to produce coherent research articles on the state of bitcoin mining. https://theminermag.com TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Start 00:48 Alen profile 02:49 Mining in Russia 03:56 Mining is Kazakhstan 05:05 New regulation 07:13 Energy landscape 08:33 On-grid mining ops 09:35 China ban effect 11:47 Grid outages 15:09 4 points of new laws 17:16 National mining pool 20:34 Russia war 22:16 Importing ASICs 23:41 Russia energy cost 25:15 Crypto payments in ops 26:03 Future of mining in K and R 27:44 Large miners in K 28:25 Will R increase mining 29:14 The halving MINE Start mining your own bitcoins with Compass. https://bit.ly/3CehBf1 WATCH https://youtube.com/c/CompassMining?sub_confirmation=1 LISTEN Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/3fNfrdi Spotify https://spoti.fi/3tSf9G1 Amazon https://amzn.to/3557cqg Anchor https://bit.ly/3rmb7UF Fountain https://bit.ly/3NeNTec RSS https://bit.ly/3chpULV  LEARN Every week, Compass sends a memo to over 18,000 professional miners and investors with the most important news and data in cryptocurrency mining. Get the free newsletter in your inbox too: https://bit.ly/3vOGzxD FOLLOW Twitter: https://twitter.com/compass_mining LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/compassmining Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices