The future of BTC mining and the Bitcoin halving
This week’s episode of Market Talks discusses the future of BTC mining and how miners can maximize profits, as well as the upcoming Bitcoin halving and its impact on the mining industry. On the latest episode of Cointelegraph’s Market Talks , host Ray Salmond spoke with Dan Rosen, associate director of derivatives at Luxor, a United States-based Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool, research hub and service provider. The show touched on a number of broad topics, including Rosen’s view on how the upcoming Bitcoin halving will impact BTC price, why Bitcoin’s volatility is set to remain in the double-digits for years to come, and miners’ ability to hedge their operations via hash rate derivatives. According to Rosen: “Any maturing asset goes through experiences of high volatility when it first launches, and if you compare Bitcoin to the tech stocks of the early 90s, like Apple and Google, their volatility was astronomical. Bitcoin has also touched crazy high levels of volatility in the 70% to 100...