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Making Sense of Texas’ Bitcoin Bills | Lee Bratcher | The Mining Pod

We are down south in Miami for Bitcoin 2023. Today we are joined by Lee Bratcher, President of the Texas Blockchain Council. We discuss Texas mining, Bitcoin and CBDC bills, domestic ASIC production and garnering public ...

2023-05-23

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We are down south in Miami for Bitcoin 2023. Today we are joined by Lee Bratcher, President of the Texas Blockchain Council. We discuss Texas mining, Bitcoin and CBDC bills, domestic ASIC production and garnering public interest.


Lee Bratcher: https://twitter.com/lee_bratcher


Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley




TIMESTAMPS:


00:00 Start


01:13 Proof of Reserves Bill


02:15 State based law making


05:32 Texas CBDC Bill 


08:14 Limiting BTC mining in ERCOT Bill


16:38 Political flexibility


19:29 NYT Mining Story


21:44 Miner data privacy


26:07 Interacting w/ journalists


29:25 ERCOT update


34:11 Domestic ASIC manufacturing


37:33 Lobbying progress


41:26 BTC interest in Texas




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