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Bitcoin Mining Pool (de)Centralization | Mark Artymko, Center of Hash E004

Mark Artymko, President and Co-Founder of Ocean, discusses his nearly two decade career in the power industry as an electrical engineer, how Ocean is helping to reverse the trend of bitcoin mining pool centralization, what the key differences are between Ocean and more traditional mining pools and why bitcoin miners more directly controlling their own hash rate is important to bitcoin decentralization and aligning incentives between pools and miners.

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  #689: Q3 2025 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis

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  #688: The Housing Crisis Neither Party Wants to Solve with Mark Mitchell

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  #687: How Fiat Money Exploits the Working Class with Erik Cason

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  #686: Living on a Bitcoin Standard in 2026 with Steve Lee

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  #685: Why Bitcoin Policy Activism Matters Now with Kyle Olney

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  #684: Bringing Bitcoin to Every Square Seller in America with Miles Suter

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  #683: Bitcoin in the Age of AI and Abundance with Jordi Visser

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  #682: Why Assault Weapons Bans Don't Work with John Lott

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  #681: The Health Insurance Death Spiral Is Here with Andy Schoonover

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  #680: Fighting for Bitcoin Policy in Washington DC with Conner Brown

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  #679: Why Central Banks Are Panic Buying Gold at Any Price with Gary Brode

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  #678: Building Privacy-First AI in an Age of Surveillance with Mark Suman

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  #677: How Bitfury Survived the Early Bitcoin Wars with George Kikvadze & B…

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  #676: Building the First Bitcoin-Focused SPAC on NASDAQ with Andrew Hohns …

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  #675: Why Multi-Sig Bitcoin Beats All Other Assets with Peter Dunworth

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  674: How Hedge Funds Became America's Largest Creditor with Infranomics