Buying and Selling Bitcoin Hashrate | Matt Williams | The Mining Pod

Today we are joined by Matt Williams, head of derivatives at Luxor Technologies. Matt is an expert on commodities trading and built Luxor’s new hashrate derivative, a product that allows miners to buy and sell hashrate. https://luxor.tech/derivatives https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/10/10/crypto-services-firm-luxor-to-offer-derivatives-for-bitcoin-miners-to-hedge-risk/ Matt Williams: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-williams-0a1b592b/ Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley TIMESTAMPS: 00:00  Start 00:25  Intro 01:11 Meet Matt 01:21 Intro 02:42 Hashrate as a commodity 04:04 Defining hashrate as commodity 05:30 Why hedge against hashrate? 08:18 Changing the thinking about hashrate 00:13:25:09 Seller of hashrate example 00:14:26:11 Buyer of hashrate example 00:15:59:23 Creating the index 00:18:36:01 Creating the marketplace 00:21:42:27 Customer requirements and security 00:25:12:13 Technical specifics 00:26:09:27 Regulation future 00:28:37:17 Product future 00:31:01:21 Cycles & volatility 00:33:39:25 Hashrate prediction 00:34:12:06 Wrap up 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://www.linkedin.com/company/compassmining Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices