Murray Rudd

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Murray Rudd

Dr. Murray Rudd is an applied environmental economist and policy researcher. His full attention is now on the economic, social, technical, and environmental impacts and potential of emerging technologies.

Bitcoin Mining: Shifts and Sustainability

Bitcoin mining 28 Mar 2025

Bitcoin Mining: Shifts and Sustainability

The March 28, 2025 episode of The Mining Pod with Will Foxley and Colin Harper examines Bitcoin mining challenges, including compressed hash prices, escalating capex, and strategic pivots toward AI and high-performance (HPC) computing.

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Monetary Reset and Bitcoin Stability

Macro trends 28 Mar 2025

Monetary Reset and Bitcoin Stability

On March 28, 2025, The Bitcoin Way podcast with Lawrence Lepard examined how unsustainable debt, inflation, and distorted fiscal policies necessitate a monetary reset. Lepard argues that Bitcoin’s fixed supply offers a stable alternative to debased fiat money.

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Bitcoin Quant Analysis & Security Trends

Power law 28 Mar 2025

Bitcoin Quant Analysis & Security Trends

The March 28, 2025 episode of Mr. M Podcast featuring Stephen Perrenod delivers a rigorous quantitative analysis of Bitcoin’s price dynamics, contrasting flawed stock-to-flow models with power law and quantile regression methods.

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