Episode 1303

US inherits China’s Bitcoin Mining Dynasty + Jacob Helberg on the “New Cold War” with China | E1303

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00:00 Jason introduces the episode

01:59 News - China’s Bitcoin hashrate plummets as US rises

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09:03 Interview - Jacob Helberg on disinformation campaigns

19:15 Jacob's insight from his time at Google News

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24:33 Flooding the zone

28:42 Russian objectives

32:21 The battle over front-end and back-end technologies

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37:53 How China exerts global control

43:24 The cards the US has left to play

48:59 The Taiwan question

57:00 How China got off easy

1:00:08 Xi taking control of China's tech companies

1:17:35 The world turning a blind-eye to the Uyghurs

Read "The Wires of War": https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Wires-of-War/Jacob-Helberg/9781982144432

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