In this episode, we sit down with Haris Basit, Chief Strategy Officer at Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR) to talk about a massive potential Bitcoin ASIC breakthrough that could severely disrupt the entire bitcoin mining industry. Haris has been involved with bitcoin ASIC development since 2014, and he has a deep background in semiconductor physics.  SUPPORT THE PODCAST: → Subscribe → Leave a review → Share the show out with your friends and family → Send us an email [email protected] TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:09 Background in semiconductor industry 00:03:12 Semiconductor physics 00:07:13 Developing bitcoin ASICs in 2014 00:08:14 Bitcoin ASICs vs other chips 00:11:36 Ordering wafers from TSMC 00:13:32 Chip fabs around the world 00:16:30 Bitdeer vs Bitmain? 00:17:40 Designing and simulating chips 00:20:35 Bitdeer and Jihan Wu 00:24:44 Designing the most efficient bitcoin ASIC 00:26:40 Future ASIC breakthroughs? 00:32:02 Hurdles to building more chip fabs? 00:37:24 Mega bitcoin mining farms? 00:38:31 AI and bitcoin mining interacting 00:41:04 2024 halving 00:43:55 Closing thoughts WHERE TO FOLLOW US: → Unchained Twitter: https://twitter.com/unchainedcom → Unchained Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unchainedcom  → Unchained Newsletter: https://unchained.com/newsletter  → Joe Burnett’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/IIICapital