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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! In this week’s news roundup, we touch on Bitcoin network metrics, Bitcoin miners increasingly moving to AI, IREN’s short report and what it meant for the stock, Tether’s bid to take over Bitcoin mining (or, diversify revenue and asset holdings) and Charlie’s Ordinals report! Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:58 Difficulty report 06:08 Miners pivot to AI 14:07 Iris Energy Short Report 18:40 Tether & Northern Data 23:30 Ordinals report Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today we’re joined by Matt Lousteau of Giga to discuss what you need in the field for mining Bitcoin! From immersion to containers to transformers, we go through your potential needs to mine Bitcoin. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:24 What's new w/ Matt? 04:03 10MW deployment 04:35 Plans for Giga 07:01 Giga products 09:09 Sourcing transformers 11:17 Miner transformer needs 13:04 ASIC hardware changes 16:15 Hydro & immersion 20:08 Hydro solution form factor 22:47 Dry coolers 27:06 What are miners buying? 30:22 Transformer competition 30:50 Geopolitical sourcing risks 33:21 AI growth 35:16 Wrap Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today we are joined by Patrick Fleury, the CFO of publicly traded mining company TerraWulf to discuss public mining markets, TerraWulf itself and how mining shareholders should think about Bitcoin mining companies! Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:24 Patrick's background 05:08 Terawulf partnerships 09:17 Financials 16:38 Nondisclosure is bull$#!T 20:15 Shareholder dilution 27:01 Issuing equity at a terahash value 35:27 Current lab projects 40:58 Terawulf lines of business 46:48 Cloud & GPU contracts 52:44 Energy contracts as assets Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! On today’s show, we’re sitting down with Leo Zhang of Alkimiya Protocol to discuss their novel trading solution for Bitcoin blockspace. Yes, you read that right! Alkimiya enables parties like wallets, miners or professional traders to take a position on Bitcoin blockspace. Widespread usage of this trading platform could enable wallets or others to issue on-chain transactions even when fees are high, balancing out the long term volatility of Bitcoin transaction fees. For miners, it might open up doors for trading a new commodity: Blockspace. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:04 What's Alkyamya? 17:41 How can miners use? 22:54 How does it work? 24:31 Tech design of Alkyamya 26:05 Alkyamya & L2s 26:42 Building on Bitcoin 33:53 New Bitcoin proposals 39:11 Degen spillover 41:20 Final thoughts Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will, Charlie and Matt jump back behind the mic to chomp on this week’s Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news–and what a week it was! We cover Cleanspark’s plans to purchase Bitcoin miner Griid, Northern Data and Genesis Digital Assets (GDA)eyeing public markets for the first time and we wrap up with a short local story on ASIC theft. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 05:18 Cleanspark Acquisition 14:07 Northern Data IPO 20:05 GDA IPO 26:28 Bad Boys: ASIC thief 28:08 Ordinals number go down :( Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Industry expert Ian Descôteaux from Pow.Re discusses evidence of pool consolidation, risks to Bitcoin, and potential solutions for decentralization. This podcast explores the growing centralization of Bitcoin mining pools, focusing on proxy pools and their potential impact on the network. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:48 Checksum's bio 03:34 Canada & South America hash rate 06:42 Mining pool centralization 09:14 Proxy pools 11:57 Proxy pool diagram 13:57 F2Pool use proxy? 15:14 F2Pool block template 16:09 Cobo yield & risk 19:31 Merkle tree evidence 25:28 UTXO accelerator 29:59 Selfish mining & 51% 33:35 Covenants 36:26 Antpool incentives 38:38 Block withholding attacks 40:17 How to fix? 43:32 Are new pools likely? 45:52 Final thoughts Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset. Distributed by CoinDesk with Senior Producer Michele Musso and Executive Producer Jared Schwartz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Portland Hodl, a Bitcoin developer with Marathon Digital, discusses Slipstream, Bitcoin Core, soft forks, and the future of Bitcoin. He shares insights on mining innovations, blockchain reorganizations, and the importance of Bitcoin education. The conversation covers technical aspects and broader implications for Bitcoin's development and adoption. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:54 Thought on Bitcoin 06:24 Slipstream 12:42 Consensus vs standardness 19:35 Slipstream technical challenges 26:35 Slipstream profitability 29:00 Why don't more pools MEV? 34:46 Not enough developers 41:17 The infamous/famous M block 49:12 Bitcoin has always been a data storage network 52:19 Re-org of Testnet4 59:39 Testnet3 hijinks 1:06:48 Thoughts on Bitcoin Core 1:13:15 Client diversity 1:17:58 Softforks 1:24:48 Consequences of softforks 1:34:42 Orange-pilling people 1:37:20 What Bitcoiners DON'T understand Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset. Distributed by CoinDesk with Senior Producer Michele Musso and Executive Producer Jared Schwartz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will and Charlie jump on the microphone to discuss Bitmain’s newest ASICs, the S21 XP and S21 XP Hydro miners! We compare against other ASICs like Canaan, Bitdeer and MicroBT while taking a larger view about how the ASIC market is going to transform over the next few years. We cover topics like AI infrastructure, commoditization of chips and how to compete in a centralized ASIC market! Timestamps: 00:00 Start 04:11 S21 Hydro 06:53 Rackspace & rigs swapping 13:46 AntSpaces 15:56 Bitmain competitors 22:54 Rig "commoditization" 26:18 New Rig makers 42:46 Final thoughts Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Weng and Payne Cong of Foundation Logic, the team behind the new ElphaPex Dogecoin/Litcoin miner, join The Mining Pod to discuss their new ASIC mining startup, competing with industry giants, and the future of script mining. Learn about hardware startups, profitability comparisons, and the potential for diversifying mining revenue. Chapters: 00:00 Start 03:20 Ben Weng background 04:29 Payne Cong background 06:32 Litecoin+Dogecoin ASIC 09:40 Why these coins? 14:50 Is Litecoin the main revenue? 18:39 Profitability 21:10 Other revenue sources 24:40 Calculators 25:50 Hardware form factor 28:15 Repairs 33:41 Chips & production 35:56 What foundry 36:50 Chip allocations from Samsung 38:40 Bitmain competition 42:46 Final thoughts Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan Nuckolls, a 10th-generation Texan and Bitcoin veteran, discusses the intersection of energy and Bitcoin mining in Texas. He shares insights on optimizing mining infrastructure, the benefits of Bitcoin for the Texas grid, and the industry's future. Nuckolls believes Texas is poised for significant growth in Bitcoin mining. Chapters: 03:12 Ryan's background 04:38 Infrastructure as a service 08:24 Generation vs demand 11:03 When Bitcoin came to ERCOT 13:47 Example deal 16:26 Due diligence beforehand 17:13 Capital intensive ops 19:25 Demand on ERCOT 21:43 Trading energy on ERCOT 25:35 What is energy trading? 30:06 The future of ERCOT & Bitcoin Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset. Distributed by CoinDesk with Senior Producer Michele Musso and Executive Producer Jared Schwartz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever wonder if this flare gas thing with Bitcoin mining is real? Can it actually scale to solve real world climate issues? And how would someone go about making a project like that in the first place? Justin Ballard, General Counsel at Akon Energy & Founding Partner at Firm 21, shares insights on Bitcoin mining's legal landscape, energy deals, flare gas mining, and the industry's future. He discusses the challenges and opportunities in navigating this space, drawing parallels to the oil and gas industry. Chapter Markers: 00:00 Start 04:37 Justin's background 08:37 Mining legal structures 15:41 Energy deal examples 18:55 Flare gas reality check 23:30 Legal gas mining deals 30:00 Learnings big/small operations Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The hardware game is becoming more competitive, with new entrants like Jack Dorsey’s Block, Marathon Digital-backed Auradine and more. And then there’s this whole AI thing which mining CEOs and others keep talking about! To make it straight, we brought on ePIC Blockchain co-founder Earl Mai to discuss ePIC’s hardware product line, the difficulties of getting a hardware startup off the ground, what its like to compete against Bitmain and how mining–and AI–could converge together over the next few years! Chapter Markers: 00:00 Start 03:07 Earl's background 04:51 ePIC's products 05:45 Earl's early mining days 09:50 Moving from alts to bitcoin 12:46 ASIC design process 15:36 Why Bitmain dominates? 20:15 Bitmian chip design 21:51 Don't fight Bitmain 24:41 Components 26:18 Shoebox form factor 27:39 How not to get scammed 29:37 Next gen ASICS 30:34 Intel update 31:20 Competition in the space 33:14 Is Bitmain slowing template propagation? 39:06 Competitive edge on open network 40:43 Where's the new competitive edge? 44:20 AI and Bitcoin Mining Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will and Charlie dig into this week’s Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news, including the short report leveled at Riot Platforms, CoreWeave’s declined bid to purchase Core Scientific, BitDeer buying a fabless ASIC manufacturer for $140 million in shares and lastly, Cleanspark’s involvement in the Cheyenne, Wyoming Bitcoin mining slapped with an executive order by the Biden administration. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:31 Difficulty update 04:51 Mining stocks 08:04 Riot & Bitfarms 16:30 Core Scientific rejects Coreweave 22:00 Desiweminer (new AISC) 27:21 Cleanspark vs White House Satoshi Action Fund's Poker Tournament at Mining Disrupt! Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re joined by Sven Hildebrandt and Frederik Vyncke of the European Bitcoin Mining Association (EBEA) to discuss the growing regulatory threat to Bitcoin mining in Europe. Sven and Frederik detail the mining landscape, how the new MiCA regulation will affect mining, the EBEA’s push to collect mining data and how other high intensity energy industries compare to Bitcoin mining in Europe. Check out the EBEA at https://ebea.work/ Follow our guests on Twitter: @vyncke_frederik @SvenHildebrandt Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:32 Frederik Vyncke background 04:31 Sven Hildebrandt background 06:13 European Bitcoin Energy Association 11:13 Perception of mining in EU now? 17:34 MICA regulation & mining 20:12 Data required by MICA 21:28 What if no data? 22:09 Service providers on the hook not miners 23:01 This seems stupid... 24:30 Energy mix data 29:08 Complying with regulations as a miner 32:20 Where is hashrate in the EU? 35:39 South East EU mining 37:36 AI power demand 42:48 Regulatory wishlist 45:21 Public data vs proprietary data 46:04 Convincing miners to comply 49:48 Wrapping up Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What’s happening in the Bitcoin mining market? Did the halving bring us into a new landscape? And how are miners surviving in such hostile revenue territory? We sit down with Shanon Squires, a long time Bitcoin miner and current Chief Mining Officer at Compass Mining. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:02 Shannon intro 06:45 Green field vs rack ready sites 08:23 US mining vs global 10:05 Self taught 11:04 Compass mining move 12:30 Compass business update 14:58 Why has hosting survived? 17:13 The Accelerated program 18:04 How does Accelerated work? 20:18 Facility sizes 22:04 10 megawatts or bust 25:14 Cost per megawatt? 25:42 Transformers are abundant now, right? Right? 27:30 Halving bankruptcies? 28:50 S19 rig bear market 30:38 ASIC sales 32:24 Repair market 35:31 Why are manufacturers training technicians 36:56 Predictions 38:33 $400k per megawatt Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! 👉 Watch our livestream on Samourai Wallet! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're off at Consensus 2024 so we're airing one of our favorite shows from The Gwart Show, one of our other podcasts on the Blockspace Podcast Network. We'll be back next week with EXTRA Mining Pod shows, but enjoy this Bitcoin podcast in between! Allen Farrington, co-founder of Axiom, joins The Gwart Show to discuss scaling Bitcoin, the role of venture capital in Bitcoin’s ecosystem, his thoughts on DeFi, NFTs, and stablecoins, and the potential for Bitcoin to supplant fiat money. He also shares his insights on the ordinals debate and the future of Bitcoin infrastructure. Follow the show by going to one of these links! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7CGboRclb7QaNOhLGgpuMg Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gwart-show-bitcoin-tech-culture/id1725892826 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55oAYu4Hc5A&t RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/thegwartshow Website: https://blockspace.media/podcast/laser-eyes-stay-on-with-allen-farrington/ Follow our guest on Twitter: @allenf32 Follow our host: @gwartygwart 👋The Gwart Show is proudly presented by Ellipsis Labs! Ellipsis Labs is building foundational products in DeFi. Their first product @PhoenixTrade is the leading orderbook DEX on Solana. The team is growing—visit ellipsislabs.xyz for engineering opportunities. Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chief Research Officer at Bitcoin miner Griid, Mike Hamilton is an experienced & well-known Bitcoin miner. But even more impressive might be his feat snagging of the second Runes ticker once the moment the protocol launched last April. Mike talks about how his experience with Bitcoin and tinkerer mentality let him beat all the other teams competing for the top Runes spots. Mike also discusses Bitcoin mining, the role miners may play going forwards, and his personal project “Mutable Trees.” Follow along on your favorite podcast player of choice by clicking here. Chapters: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:55 Mike intro 00:08:12 What is etching & hard coding? 00:09:59 Acquiring the Runes ticker 00:15:01 Building Runes tools 00:19:24 Airdropping 00:23:54 Miners learning Runes 00:26:38 Managing UTXOs 00:32:17 Including Runes in business model 00:34:26 Block templates 00:38:43 Miners vs Maxi 00:40:16 Fix the filters? 00:42:35 Mutable Trees 00:48:34 OP_CAT 00:52:07 Miners & soft forks Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! 👉 Watch our livestream on Samourai Wallet! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! On today’s news roundup, we discuss Bitcoin mining stocks, Venezuela banning Bitcoin mining, the FIT21 bill passing the US House of Representatives, MetaMask possibly adding Bitcoin, the Rabbit AI founder’s murky Bitcoin past and more! Enjoying the show? Subscribe to the RSS feed for the podcast here. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:29 Difficulty update 05:02 FIT21 bill 12:07 Venezuela illegal mining 16:44 Metamask + Bitcoin 26:28 Rabbit AI 👉 Check out our NEW referral network! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! On today’s show, we’re joined by Storm Rund of the Oklahoma Bitcoin Association to discuss the groundbreaking Bitcoin legislation passed in the state of Oklahoma! In this show, Storm gives an overview of Bitcoin mining in OK (nearly over 1 gigawatt in size!), the legislative process, what the law does for Bitcoiners and what future bills Storm is working on with the OKA! Enjoying the show? Subscribe to the RSS feed for the podcast here. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:28 Storm intro 06:12 Mining power usage in OK 08:16 Legislative process & bill 15:27 The OPA mission 17:59 Upcoming bills 19:28 Practical miner considerations 22:58 Why is BTC legislation uncommon? 27:29 Red Team vs Blue Team 30:34 Story:FUD flyer 33:03 What resonates w/ politicians 38:20 Become a member 👉 Check out our NEW referral network! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Kimmell and Will Foxley of Blockspace Media jump into this week’s Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news including a network healthy check, mining stocks slowly bleeding out while Bitcoin ETFs continue to grow in strength, the Biden administration forcing the divestment of a Bitcoin mining farm from Chinese owners outside a nuclear power plant in Wyoming, and Bitfarms’ lawsuit with its former CEO! Enjoying the show? Subscribe to the RSS feed for the podcast here. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:34 Difficulty update 08:24 Inefficient miners exit: JP Morgan 10:18 ETF updates 14:06 Choppy for public miners 17:39 US blocks China miners 22:35 Bitfarms exec shakeup 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taras Kulyk, CEO of Sunnyside Digital, one of the largest hardware distributors in North America, joins The Mining Pod to discuss the post-Bitcoin halving mining market, including ASIC prices, infrastructure, global shipping and M&A in the mining industry. Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:18 Taras Kulyk intro 00:04:45 ASIC market update 00:07:53 ASIC buyer hesitation 00:10:29 S21 vs T21 performance 00:12:46 Where are older ASIC migrating to? 00:14:39 Electrical infrastructure procurement 00:15:57 Supply chain 00:17:03 GPS jamming 00:18:11 West vs East coast shipping 00:19:32 Intl vs domestic shipments 00:20:34 Procurement advice for new miners 00:23:14 ASIC market maturing? 00:24:49 Institutional ASIC buyers 00:26:23 M&A for big miners 00:30:27 Servicing miners 00:31:01 Why miners aren't staffing up? 00:32:54 Big miner predictions 00:33:42 Wrap up Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week’s Mining Pod, Will and Matt dig into Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news including: difficulty dropping 5.5%, Arkansas putting restrictions around Bitcoin mining and large Bitcoin miners pivoting into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. 00:00:00 Start 00:02:07 Hashrate go down 00:06:35 Texas grid spikes 00:10:57 Canaan Avalon A15 00:17:26 Arkansas hates noise & communists 00:25:01 Miners pivot to AI infrastructure Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:35 Open Timestamps does election fraud 00:07:19 Timestamp the internet? 00:08:19 Peter Todd Intro 00:10:45 Antpool block template use 00:16:33 Does Stratum V2 solve pool control? 00:17:18 Ocean Pool 00:18:19 Developers Incentivisation 00:20:19 Mining Testnet 00:21:30 Resetting Testnet 00:21:56 Ordinal Streisand Effect 00:24:16 OP_RETURN 00:24:58 1MB Runes incoming w/ Libra Relay? 00:28:23 MEV is dangerous 00:30:35 RBF transactions 00:31:20 MEV types 00:32:53 Libra Relay vs Core filters 00:34:50 Libra Relay is a political project 00:36:10 Suggestions for miners 00:37:36 OP_CAT 00:42:40 OP Code prediction 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week’s Mining Pod, Charlie, Matt, Will and special guest Walt Smith of Cyber Fund discuss the talks from Bitcoin developer conference Bitcoin ++ in Austin, Texas, with special focus on new soft forks for Bitcoin that could bring more programmability on-chain. 00:00 Start 01:37 What is Bitcoin ++? 05:09 Specter of MEV on Bitcoin 11:49 Defining MEV 17:23 Slipstream & Data Blobs 21:08 Protocol Ossification 23:56 OP_CAT 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week’s Mining Pod, we talk with the Galaxy Digital Bitcoin mining team about their Helios Bitcoin mine in Spur, Texas, population 900! We discuss the latest film, The Big Empty, how it was received by the community and what it means to have a Bitcoin miner join rural American towns like Spur. Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:01 Guest Intros 00:02:36 Helios Mine Scale 00:03:21 Guest Bios 00:07:59 Helios Facility Size 00:11:26 Immersion Mining Process 00:13:21 Living in Dickens County 00:20:13 Suspicion of New Companies 00:23:42 Bitcoin Adoption in Towns 00:27:15 Community Interactions 00:29:32 Money & State Separation 00:33:41 Communication Barriers 00:35:06 The Legendary Pool 00:38:50 Wrapping Up 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We go through this week’s news in Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining, including ViaBTC’s 33.3 BTC auction reward, Jack Dorsey’s Block announcing its 3 nm chip plans for a Bitcoin ASIC, and a behind the scenes look at TSMCs Arizona chip fab! 00:00:00 Start 00:07:27 Post-Halving Difficulty 00:12:16 Via BTC's Epic Sat Sale 00:16:14 Block's 3nm Mining Chip 00:20:01 Challenges for New ASICS 00:24:28 Jack Dorsey's Support 00:27:28 TSMC's Arizona Fab Issues 00:32:26 Wrap-up 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! 👉 Watch our livestream on Samourai Wallet! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation and Diverter, a pseudonymous Bitcoiner known for his non-KYC Bitcoin guides, joins The Mining Pod to discuss why Bitcoin mining matters for individual liberty and how Bitcoiners can take mining to the next level. Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Start 00:03:13 Diverter's Bitcoin Journey 00:06:12 Alex Gladstein's Bitcoin Story 00:10:22 Why Mining Matters 00:13:07 Value of Non-KYC Mining 00:20:27 Mining & Financial Sovereignty 00:24:27 Clean Spark Ad 00:24:47 Bitcoin Mining Bifurcation 00:28:45 Vitamin Ad 00:29:26 Mining: Suits vs. Home Miners 00:37:36 Regulatory Capture of Mining 00:51:50 Bitmain Ad 00:52:37 Compromising on Privacy 00:57:53 Inevitability of Bitcoin Adoption 01:03:17 Cypherpunk Ethos & Nuance 01:04:20 What if Bitcoin Succeeds? Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out our other shows and content by going to Blockspace.media today. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt, Will and Charlie dig into this week’s biggest news stories ahead of the Bitcoin halving, where Bitcoin’s rewards are dropped by 50% by the network! We go through Bitcoin data, Riot energizing Corsicana and Foundry playing halving block games! Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:15 Bitcoin Having Discussion 00:04:28 Sponsor: Clean Spark 00:06:06 Miner Mag Data Review 00:09:17 Miner Sell Pressure 00:11:18 Riot's 1 GW Mine 00:14:23 Sponsor: Foreman 00:15:25 Foundry's Rare Sat Auction 00:20:36 Sponsor: Bitmain 00:21:24 Testnet Reorgs & Hash Bender 00:31:39 Mining Innovations & Topics 00:33:42 Upcoming Shows & Events 00:35:36 Wrap-up Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out our other shows and content by going to Blockspace.media today. 👉 Join our Bitcoin Halving party in Denver, Colorado on April 20th! 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Parker Merritt from Coin Metrics and Will Foxley discuss key metrics, trends, and insights in Bitcoin mining. Topics include mining pools, hash rate, transaction fees, hardware fingerprinting, energy consumption, miner efficiency, and the performance of publicly traded mining stocks. Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Start 00:01:45 Foreman ad 00:02:28 Sponsor message 00:02:52 Introductions 00:03:50 Bitcoin Halving update 00:05:12 Bitcoin Cash price surge 00:09:08 Bitcoin Cash mining revenue 00:11:23 Bitcoin Cash blockchain growth 00:13:41 Big blocks in Bitcoin 00:17:35 Mining pool distribution 00:20:40 Mining pool payout analysis 00:25:53 ASIC breakeven power costs 00:28:50 ASIC fingerprinting methodology 00:34:20 Bitcoin energy consumption 00:35:58 Mining & grid load balancing 00:38:50 Average network efficiency 00:41:52 CleanSpark's on-chain data 00:45:53 Miner market cap dominance 00:49:01 Miner stocks vs. Bitcoin in 2024 Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out our other shows and content by going to Blockspace.media today. 👉 Join our Bitcoin Halving party in Denver, Colorado on April 20th! 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt, Charlie and Will discuss Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news, from Bitmain’s large US operations to Ordinals marketcap projections to mining pools playing games with new transaction types. Senator Elizabeth Warren might even drop by! Watch a video version of the show here. Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Start 00:01:54 Intro & Bitcoin Halving 00:03:27 Difficulty Adjustment 00:05:01 Bitmain & BitFuFu 00:07:08 New US ASIC Maker 00:10:07 Promising or Flop? 00:11:15 Ordinals Corner 00:15:31 Ordinals Hype Chart 00:18:33 Ordinals vs. ETH NFTs 00:20:15 Ordinals & Block Space 00:23:45 Ordinals: JPEGs for BTC? 00:26:16 Mining Fees & Ordinals 00:28:41 Bitcoin Pool Revenues 00:31:17 Pool Decentralization 00:33:20 Sen. Warren on Crypto 00:37:15 Wrapping Up Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out our other shows and content by going to Blockspace.media today. 👉 Join our Bitcoin Halving party in Denver, Colorado on April 20th! 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Barbour, owner of Bitcoin mining and oil and gas services company Upstream Data, joins the show to discuss who should get into Bitcoin mining, what problems Bitcoin mining solves and what he expects going into another Bitcoin bull market. Watch a video version of the show here. Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:30 Introducing Steve Barbour 00:04:12 Bitcoin mining & energy 00:07:33 Upstream Data's origins 00:14:13 Upstream Data's naming 00:19:35 Canadian oil vs. Bitcoin 00:24:35 Upstream Data's services 00:32:54 Colorado oil & Bitcoin 00:36:11 Bitcoin vs oil cycles 00:41:45 Bitcoin & AI 00:45:00 Water vs. air cooling 00:49:05 Advice for new miners 00:53:59 Mining contract tips 00:57:19 When to start mining 01:01:31 Steve on Bitcoin ordinals Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out our other shows and content by going to Blockspace.media today. 👉 Join our Bitcoin Halving party in Denver, Colorado on April 20th! 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the news roundup! Today we chat about potential delays to TSMCs chip production from the earthquake in Taiwan, Franklin Templeton on Ordinals and Poolin selling its 100 MW farm for a fair chunk of change. Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Start 00:01:07 Intro 00:04:21 The Big Empty Documentary 00:05:40 Taiwan Earthquake Impact 00:10:55 Bitcoin Ordinals Corner 00:15:33 Mining Pool Centralization 00:24:23 Stratum V2 Discussion 00:29:35 Poolin Sells Texas Assets 00:35:18 Sauna Miner Test: S21 vs M60 00:38:08 Outro 👉 Check out our other shows and content by going to Blockspace.media today. 👉 Join our Bitcoin Halving party in Denver, Colorado on April 20th! 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Williams of Luxor Tech joins the podcast to discuss hashrate futures, a new trading product that allows miners to forecast and act on the future price of hashrate. We discuss the product, similar Bitcoin futures products on the CME and how mining pool games with Ordinals could alter the equation. Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! Timestamps: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:52 Matt Williams Intro 00:04:11 Matt's Background 00:09:50 English Major & Skiing 00:12:37 CME & Bitcoin Futures 00:19:58 Luxor Hashrate Futures 00:28:06 Luxor's Product Suite 00:32:37 CME Bitcoin Futures 00:36:14 Futures Explained 00:41:34 Changing Pool Models 00:44:30 Transaction Fee Hedging 00:48:55 Volatility & Derivatives 00:50:54 Futures & Options Check out our other shows and content by going to https://blockspace.media/ today. Join our halving party in Denver, Colorado on April 20th! https://www.meetup.com/denver-bitdevs/events/299059050/ Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alan Schroeder of Synota joins The Mining Pod to go through the ins-and-outs of the energy credit system and how the Lightning Network can make it more efficient through real time settlement for energy usage. Join our Bitcoin Halving Party! https://www.meetup.com/denver-bitdevs/ Join our newsletter: https://blockspace.media/ Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected] Thanks to Foreman Mining for sponsoring the show. Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining. https://foreman.mn/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More transactions? More users? More fees? Zero Knowledge-based Rollups might be the holy grail of scaling solutions Bitcoiners are looking for. We sit down with Orkun Kılıç of Chainway Labs to discuss the latest in ZKRs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlie, Matt and Will join the news roundup to talk this week’s Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news, including public miners offering large ATMs, Bitcoin MEV from Ordinals and ViaBTC’s stale block problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bitcoin hit another all time high last week, but Bitcoin mining stocks keep lagging. We’re joined by Brandon Bailey, a Bitcoin mining analyst previously with Galaxy Digital Holdings, to break down the price performance. Questions or want to sponsor? ⁠[email protected]⁠ Thanks to Foreman Mining for sponsoring the show. Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining. https://foreman.mn/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should Bitcoin miners think about AI? Is it too late to get in on the game? How should Bitcoin miner’s construct JV deals or other structures? We are joined by John Belizaire of Soluna Digital Holdings to dig into this and more. Join our Bitcoin Halving Party! https://www.meetup.com/denver-bitdevs/ Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cathedra Bitcoin and Kungsleden have merged, creating a new mining entity with both self-mining and hosting operations as revenue drivers. We are joined by Drew Armstrong (President Cathedra), Tom Masiero (Founder Kungsleden, Standard Bitcoin) and Marty Bent (Ten31, Cathedra) to discuss the merger of the two companies. Join our Bitcoin Halving Party! https://www.meetup.com/denver-bitdevs/ Join our newsletter! https://blockspace.media/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We recorded at ETHDenver on the next generation of crypto mining ASICs: Zero Knowledge (ZK) miners. Michael Gao of Fabric Crypto and Nazar Khan of TeraWulf join the show to discuss bleeding edge inquiry into ZK ASIC hardware, including how they could fit into a Bitcoin mining playbook. Please subscribe to our newsletter: https://blockspace.media/ Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian Morgenstern of Riot Platforms and Lee Bratcher of the Texas Blockchain Council join the show to discuss the latest in Washington DC overreach, with Elizabeth Warren asking the Department of Energy’s EIA to locate and document Bitcoin mining operations in the US. Please subscribe to our newsletter: https://blockspace.media/ Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Santiago Varela is the co-founder of Kardashev BTC, a Mexican Bitcoin mining operation focused on harnessing waste and stranded energy sources for mining Bitcoin. Please subscribe to our newsletter: https://blockspace.media/ Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will and Charlie go through this week’s Bitcoin news, including mining stock flows, Braiins adding Lightning and a DL News hit piece on Bitcoin miners. Please subscribe to our newsletter: https://blockspace.beehiiv.com/subscribe Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The return of the GigaChad! In our final TAKOVER episode, guest hosts Marc Fresa of Vnish and Taylor Monnig of Cleanspark dig into Chad Everett Harris’ Bitcoin genesis, his time at Riot Platform’s and H3 Data Solutions, his new venture. Please subscribe to our newsletter: https://blockspace.beehiiv.com/subscribe Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlie, Matt and Will go through this week’s most important Bitcoin headlines, including the 8% difficulty adjustment, Coinmint’s $14 million payout and Justin Sun’s Bitcoin ambitions. Please subscribe to our newsletter: https://blockspace.beehiiv.com/subscribe Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sam Tabar, CEO of BitDigital, joins the show to discuss the Bitcoin miner’s strategy, its AI investments and how he thinks of the upcoming halving. Please subscribe to our newsletter: https://blockspace.media/ Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlie, Matt and Will talk about Bitcoin mining news this week, including price, Hut 8’s leadership change, the EIA seeking energy data and French Montana shilling his latest Bitcoin NFT. Please subscribe to our newsletter: https://blockspace.media/ Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Celsius Mining recently completed its Chapter 11 restructuring, and is now managed by Hut 8. Are creditors getting a good deal? Celsius Mining was one of the only truly functional parts of Celsius, a defunct lending firm that went belly up in mid-2022. The mining firm recently transitioned to its own entity, Ionic, and is working with Hut 8 to run its mining assets. But did creditors get a good deal? We brought on citizen journalist and long time skeptic ‘ChazzonKe’ to learn more. Please subscribe to our newsletter: https://blockspace.media/ Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Swan launched a large mining company out of stealth. The question is…how? Bitcoin financial services company announced its 4.5 EH/s Bitcoin mining operation the other week, turning heads across the Bitcoin ecosystem. Why is a financial services company getting into Bitcoin mining and how did they do it so sneakily? We find out with Rapha Zagury, CIO of Swan and head of Swan Mining. Please subscribe to our newsletter: https://blockspace.media/ Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Texas is Bitcoin country, right? Over 2 gigawatts of energy is now mining Bitcoin in Texas, but it might be bad for the long term stability of the Texas energy grid. Tom Masiero of Standard Bitcoin walks us through why, in addition to insights on mining Bitcoin in the Tennessee Valley. Thanks for our sponsor, Foreman Mining for making this show possible! https://foreman.mn/ Please subscribe to our newsletter: https://blockspace.media/ Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices