Nic and Sean sit down with Kevin Anetsberger, General Manager at Midwest Tungsten, to cover their journey as a business and their entry into the crypto industry In this episode:Â
- The history of Midwest Tungsten
- How Midwest got its start making metal steam
- Industrial applications of tungsten
- Tungsten's physical properties and how that makes it suitable for industrial applications
- Military applications of tungsten
- Where Midwest Tungsten sits in the supply chain
- How Tungsten is actually refined and formed, given that it's impossible to smelt
- The upper limits to tungsten formed objects, and where the constraints derive from
- Why a 14 inch cube is actually the largest size Midwest can actually make
- How Kevin came to work in the tungsten industry
- Where is tungsten mined?
- Have the supply chain disruptions affected Midwest Tungsten
- How Midwest Tungsten resisted offshoring
- Why Midwest Tungsten began selling collectibles
- Who has bought the cubes historically
- Was this the largest spike in demand for the tungsten cubes ever?
- How the company came to accept Bitcoin and make the NFT
- Is Midwest Tungsten holding the Bitcoin they have earned in cube sales?
- Is tungsten safe to handle?
- Where Kevin falls on the cube vs sphere debate
- What is the optimal cube size?
- Why Midwest chose to sell the cube NFT
- Other metals that Kevin likes
- What about Osmium?
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