Crypto Mining within the Himalayas: Bhutan’s Gamble With Bitcoin

For the very first episode at our new residence, The Diplomat, Beyond the Indus podcast hosts Joe Wallen and Tushar Shetty discover how Bhutan, an remoted kingdom tucked within the Eastern Himalayas, is quietly gearing as much as grow to be the world’s subsequent Bitcoin superpower. We converse to Tenzing Lamsang, editor of Bhutan’s largest non-public newspaper, The Bhutanese, to grasp how the previous hermit kingdom determined to leapfrog into the fourth industrial revolution by aiming to grow to be the world’s largest per capita producer of cryptocurrency.

We additionally focus on the political controversies surrounding the current opening of the brand new Indian Parliament, in addition to Rahul Gandhi’s go to to the United States.

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