Eric Trump's Mining Company Hasn't Won A Block In Months | Ep 19⚖️
Episode 19 of Trust Issues — Alex and Emily on the Tuesday before Consensus Miami. The Bitcoin Vegas conference is happening in parallel, Forbes just dropped a hit piece on Eric Trump's American Bitcoin venture, and the conversation rolls straight into the Ben McKenzie tour, the politics of DeFi United, and what an individual is actually supposed to do about any of it.
Alex walks through American Bitcoin via mempool.space — Eric Trump's mining company hasn't won a meaningful block in months, American energy is too expensive, and aluminum smelters keep getting bought up by chip manufacturers…
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