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Welcome to The Mining Pod! Matt Kimmell and Will cover the week's biggest stories in Bitcoin mining. We analyze the challenging hashprice environment for miners (hitting all-time lows at $42/hash), discuss the EPA's major deregulation announcement and its potential impact on energy markets, break down Canaan's $200M funding for US expansion, examine CoreWeave's massive $11.9B OpenAI deal ahead of its IPO, and dive into the drama between NYDIG and Mawson over allegedly stolen Bitcoin miners worth $30M.
Notes:
Hash price at all-time low of $42 per hash per @luxor
EPA launching 31 deregulatory actions for energy
Canaan secured $200M for US mining expansion
CoreWeave signed $11.9B OpenAI contract
Nydig claims Mawson stole $30M worth of miners
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
07:21 EPA to slash regulation
14:03 Canaan $200M in financing
20:41 CoreWeave & OpenAI sign deal
28:50 Cry corner: Stone Ridge & Mawson $30M Theft
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Mar 14, 2025
35 min

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Skot from the Bitaxe project and Econoalchemist from Pod256 join the show to talk about open-source Bitcoin mining hardware.
From hitting a Bitcoin block during a mining charity event to developing standardized hash
Boards, we talk about Bitcoin mining hardware. Learn about their Skot and Econoalchemsts take on the Bitmain monopoly and attempt to make Bitcoin mining accessible to everyone.
Notes:
• BitaxeOpen Source Project
• 256 Foundation Mission
• Breaking Mining Monopolies
• Standardized Hash Boards
• DIY Mining Innovation
• Hardware Democratization
Timestamps
00:00 Start
01:59 Telehash & hitting block
05:26 Intros
12:51 256 Foundation mandate?
16:02 BitAxe users
18:53 AmberOne project
22:08 Designer BitAxe culture
27:24 Mining centralization
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Feb 11, 2025
39 min

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s Bitcoin Stock Show, we welcome back Second Gate Advisory Co-founder Brandon Bailey for a refresher on Bitdeer. Bailey first came on the show in September 2024 after penning an op-ed for Blockspace, “The bullish case for Bitdeer.” Since this analysis, Bitdeer is up 240%, and he thinks it has room to grow, largely because of the company’s burgeoning ASIC manufacturing line. We touch on the ASIC manufacturing line in depth in this episode, plus some insights into other newcomers to the ASIC manufacturing space.Â
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Jan 19, 2025
46 min

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!
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Jun 7, 2024
36 min

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
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👉 Watch our livestream on Samourai Wallet!
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Jun 4, 2024
40 min

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.
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May 31, 2024
1 hr 42 min

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.
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Mar 1, 2024
30 min

On the eve of a possible Bitcoin ETF, we conduct the first ever BITCOIN MINING STOCK DRAFT! We each pick 5 Bitcoin mining stocks to watch over the next 3 months based on public information.
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Jan 9, 2024
58 min

Happy New Year! We kick off our first show with Charlie and Matt to talk about what happened with Ordinals in 2023. If you’re lost on what Ordinals are or want to catch up on the current trends, this is the show for you.
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Jan 6, 2024
57 min

We are joined by Spiderchain creator and founder of Botanix Labs Willem Schroe to discuss his proposal to bring a fully functioning EVM to Bitcoin. What does this mean for applications and fees on Bitcoin?
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Dec 13, 2023
49 min
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