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Welcome back to the Bitcoin Stock Show!
For today's show, we're joined by Hive Digital Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Frank Holmes. We recorded this on the day after the 2024 US elections, and since the Republican party swept the Presidency, Senate, and (probably) the House, we had to get Frank's take on what the Red Wave means for Bitcoin and its mining industry -- and whether or not this election marks a sea change in Washington's attitude toward Bitcoin. Turning the focus to Hive, we also touch on the company's HPC plans and its 100 MW expansion into Paraguay.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today we are joined by Chris Bendiksen of Coinshares to discuss investing in Bitcoin mining! What’s the value prop of miners? How should we think about their go-to-market strategy? What about the huge ASIC orders that get zeroed out so quickly overtime? For retail investors, Chris thinks its not a great purchase and certainly not when compared to Bitcoin. Check out the show for more thoughts!
Link to the article: https://blog.coinshares.com/no-end-in-sight-for-the-asic-arms-race-4ede8e346cbf
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:29 Story reading
09:16 Story origins
11:04 Can miners get more efficient?
16:31 New efficiency methods
20:53 Access to new ASIC models as strategy
23:39 ATMs & PubCo balance sheets
29:09 New financing models
34:55 Bitcoin treasury
36:47 Wrap up
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Bitcoin’s hashrate is ripping, so Will and Colin sit down to discuss where all the new hashrate is coming from. They also touch on updates for Greenidge’s long-standing lawsuit against the State of New York and why the scuttlebutt that Bitmain might come under the scope of US sanctions is unfounded for now. Finally, in this week’s cry corner, why you shouldn’t spend £500 to hear yet another bloviating imposter claim that he’s Satoshi.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:41 Difficulty update
11:13 US, Russia, China drive bitcoin hashrate all-time high
16:47 Greenidge lawsuit with the State of New York
21:17 Rumors catch Bitmain in the crossfire of Sophgo investigation
27:37 Cry corner: Satoshi reveals himself (lol jk)
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Welcome back to the Bitcoin Stock Show!
Yesterday, we livestreamed Riot's Q3 earnings call, so for today's show, we unpack the earnings call with a special guest, PennyEther! PennyEther is a bitcoin mining stock analyst who shares his research and insights on X. This podcast is a truncated version of the livestream, where we cut the earnings call bit and dive straight into our post-call analysis. If you'd like to listen to the full episode with the earnings call, hop on over to The Mining Pod YouTube channel!
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today we are joined by Kyle Schneps, VP of Public Policy at Bitcoin mining pool Foundry, joins us to discuss…well the election! Why did Bitcoin miners go so hard for Trump and will there be repercussions? Why did Foundry sit in between and not endorse either candidate? And what actually matters more in 2024, States or the Federal level?
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:05 Foundry & political lobbying
04:09 New York state politics
11:10 Trump, AI & energy policy
17:33 Harris statement on crypto
22:54 Miners love Trump?
27:16 What happens if Harris loses?
30:47 US Bitcoin industry
32:24 Key election issues for Bitcoin
37:12 Miners working with energy companies
39:29 Get involved
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Welcome back to the Mining Pod! Will, Colin, and Matt are back with another news roundup. It’s election season, so naturally, headlines about Russia have weaseled their way into the news cycle – only this time, the news is about how Russia allegedly wants to encourage trade in bitcoin to bypass sanctions. The gang also talks about Coinmint’s partnership with NYDIG to expand its Massena, NY facility, and our friends at Compass give us an update on the bitcoin mining hosting market. The show wraps up with the latest on Core Scientific’s $8.7 billion deal with Core Weave, and in this week’s cry corner, the fellas are perplexed at why Dennis Porter, founder of Satoshi Action Fund, is getting so much heat for Pennsylvania’s new bitcoin rights bill.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:53 Difficulty update
04:00 Russia using bitcoin for international trade?
15:26 Massena & the Alcoa East plant
18:36 Hosting update w/ Karoon from Compass
32:46 Core Scientific Final Contract Option by CoreWeave
37:49 Cry corner: why so butthurt about Dennis Porter?
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Welcome back to the Mining Pod! For this week’s stock show, Colin interviews Bitfarms CEO Ben Gagnon and Senior Vice President of Global Mining Operations Alex Brammer. Bitfarms made a name for itself as one of the first publicly traded bitcoin miners to expand into South America, first with its operations in Argentina and then in Paraguay. Now, Bitfarms is planning to house 50% of its future hashrate in Pennsylvania with its acquisition of Stronghold Digital. They discuss how their new portfolio in Pennsylvania gives Bitfarms the option to enter the energy trading business, and Bitfarms’s strategy for potentially breaking into the AI/HPC business by 2026.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:20 Why Bitfarms entered into the South American market
07:10 Experience with regulation and approval process in Paraguay
10:00 Difficulties with expanding in Quebec
13:50 Why Bitfarms likes the PJM power region
18:00 Stronghold acquisition: power market play, expansion play, or both?
23:40 Bitfarms HPC aspirations
31:15 Will bitcoin miners need to pivot to AI/HPC to remain relevant?
34:40 How mining can fill in demand gaps for AI/HPC
43:20 How Bitfarms plans to fund mining expansion and potential AI/HPC operations
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Welcome back to the Mining Pod! We’re joined by Ethan Vera of Luxor Tech and Kal Kassa of BitcoinBrr to discuss mining Bitcoin in Ethiopia! Earlier this summer we heard reports of mining picking up in the Eastern side of Africa, particularly with well connected Chinese Bitcoin miners sourcing hydro-powered contracts. Ethan recently visited so we brought him on with Kal to discuss what’s actually happening, the costs versus North American mining and how to invest in the area (if you’re willing to take the risk!)
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Start
01:55 Kal's bio
02:45 Ethan's bio
03:58 Ethiopia mining scene
06:16 Ethan on Ethiopia
08:45 Stat of Ethiopia's grid
13:47 Political risks
19:23 China in Ethiopia
24:55 US to Ethiopia challenges
30:58 Mining in other parts of Africa
34:11 African miners moving to Ethiopia?
37:35 Bitcoin jobs in Africa
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Welcome back to the Mining Pod! For this week’s news roundup, Colin and Matt discuss how US public bitcoin miners are growing their share of Bitcoin's hashrate. Plus, Marathon is leveraging its trove of 26,000+ BTC and Cipher is going bigly with three pending mining site acquisitions for a total of 1.5 GW of capacity, some of which the miner may allocate toward AI/HPC compute. They also touch on some AI updates from Crusoe and Bit Digital, and in this week’s cry corner, why grown men are getting big mad about arbitrary data on everyone’s favorite block explorer.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:42 Difficulty update
04:19 29% PubCo Hashrate report JPMorgan
10:50 MARA Unlocks $200M BTC-Backed Credit Line
18:06 Cipher Mining Acquires 1.5 GW in Texas
24:37 Blue Owl Backs Crusoe in AI Move
29:35 Bit Digital Acquires HPC Data Center
32:38 Cry corner: "Runes, ordinals, etc don’t exist"
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Welcome back to the Mining Pod! For this week’s Bitcoin Stock Show, we sit down with Jeff LaBerge, the head of capital markets and strategic investments at Bitdeer. Bursting onto the scene last year with its IPO, Bitdeer quickly became one of the public bitcoin miners to watch, and now, the company is designing its own ASIC miner, the SEALMINER. How did Bitdeer secure TSMC chip allocation for the series, and will Bitdeer sell this ASIC on the open market or keep it for itself? We answer these questions and more, and we also touch on Bitdeer’s multi-continent AI/HPC aspirations.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:28 Jeff's background & Bitdeer
03:51 Bitdeer's ASIC business
06:41 Foot in the door with TSMC
11:55 Retail vs internal allocations
15:07 Different model timelines
17:16 Cooling design
18:48 Hydro & immersion cooling
20:59 Manufacturing capacity
22:05 AI & HPC
25:15 Different business lines
30:57 Norway deployment
35:03 Butan future
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Welcome back to the Mining Pod! Today we’re joined by Skot, the creator of the open source Bitcoin mining project Bitaxe! Launched a bit over a year ago, Bitaxe is a simple way to bring mining back to the household by taking a chip from state of the art Bitcoin miners like the Bitmain S21 and gluing it with a bunch of other parts into a mini-home miner! We talk with Skot about the origin of the idea, why he wanted to make something like the Bitaxe, the value of home mining and the future of mega miners like Riot, Marathon or others.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:10 What's a Bitaxe?
05:20 How is it open source?
06:15 Salvaging chips
10:45 Sourcing components
13:11 How are they sold?
15:05 Why make the Bitaxe?
19:19 Node + Bitaxe?
21:04 Increasing collaboration
26:42 Pleb mining
30:30 The future of mining
36:09 Bitaxe timeline
36:50 The experience making the Bitaxe
42:13 Wrap up
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Welcome back to the Mining Pod! We’re going through Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news including a difficulty update after Florida hurricanes, IREN’s lawsuit about HPC, Bitmain releasing another version of the S21 with less efficiency (why?), Marathon’s Anduro platform getting in on tokenized whiskey, Marathon also getting sued for being too loud at its Granbury, Texas site and HBOs new Satoshi Nakamoto documentary uncovering the creator of Bitcoin was none other than Peter Todd, a guest and friend of the show! We dig in.
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Timestamps:
00:15 Start
01:16 Difficulty update
03:14 IREN HPC lawsuit
09:26 Bitmain announces new S21 variants
15:04 MARA’s whiskey on the blockchain
25:30 MARA’s continued dispute with Texas town
29:16 Cry corner: HBOs documentary
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Welcome back to the Mining Pod! For this week’s Bitcoin Stock Show, we sit down with Sue Ennis, the head of investor relations at Hut 8, to discuss Hut 8’s AI/HPC business line. The conversation covers Hut 8’s original foray into HPC with its Terago acquisition in 2022, its new GPU-as-a-Service business line, what makes an ideal HPC data center, what has changed with Hut 8 since the merger with US Bitcoin Corporation, and everything in between – including a little teasing about a 1 GW acquisition that Hut 8 has in the pipeline.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Livestream waiting room
01:47 Intro
03:04 Sue’s background
04:10 Why Hut 8 purchased Terago data centers
08:52 Learning curves for Hut 8 operating HPC centers
11:20 Retrofitting a bitcoin mine vs deploying hashrate at an HPC center
13:40 Hut 8’s GPU-as-a-Service
15:35 Difference between Terago centers vs new business line
17:14 Does Hut 8 plan to greenfield or retrofit a datacenter for HPC?
23:00 Ideal conditions for an HPC data center
25:50 U3S21EXPH form factor as a cross-over from HPC operations
30:30 Hut 8 transition/change with US Bitcoin Corp merger
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Welcome back to the Mining Pod! This week we are joined by Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8, one of the larger and older Bitcoin miners! Hut 8 recently entered into a deal with leading Bitcoin mining manufacturer Bitmain to produce a new immersion unit ready for traditional data center builds! In this show we discuss the unit, how the deal got made, how it fits into a data center, parts and repair, the hosting deal with Bitmain and the opportunity cost of entering into investments like this one with Bitmain!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:34 New ASIC (U3S21EXPH)
05:03 Chip efficiency
07:55 New cooling solutions
14:12 Datacenter build out
19:00 AI facility conversion
20:58 Hosting for Bitmain deal
26:51 Facility location
29:05 Opportunity costs
32:08 New CEO role
35:11 Growing both AI & mining
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Welcome back to the Mining Pod! This week, we’re talking about about bullish inflows to the crypto (mostly Bitcoin) ecosystem that could support better asset prices, Ocean launching a new decentralized template program for miners, CleanSpark’s hurricane woes and updates from the recent catastrophe in the Southeast US and Swan’s dramatic lawsuit against its former employees!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
04:18 Difficulty update
05:26 Coinshares: Digital Asset Flows
10:40 Ocean Pool's Datum
18:46 Cleanspark & the hurricane
24:03 Swan mining update
31:32 Cry Corner: Satoshi Has Been Found! LOL
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Show links:
https://blog.coinshares.com/volume-202-digital-asset-fund-flows-weekly-report-e00fa60eac86
https://ocean.xyz/docs/datum
https://www.theblock.co/post/318784/bitcoin-miner-cleanspark-restores-200mw-in-the-wake-of-hurricane-helene
https://blockspace.media/insight/new-filings-raise-questions-about-mining-ownership-in-swan-lawsuit/
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1841896077865230409
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There’s a ton of new units on the market, including new players like Auradine. But how do these units actually hold up when deployed to the field and under harsh environments? We brought on Brad Cuddy of Cholla Energy to walk us through his experience working with the units. We also discuss alternative units like Bitmain and MicroBT, dry cooling, hydro vs. immersion and various other topics relating to technical Bitcoin mining. Lastly, we finish with a conversation on the Texas Bitcoin mining landscape including
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:01 Brad's background
05:53 Types of ASIC cooling
09:25 Bitmain vs MicroBT
12:20 Dry cooling
16:34 Hydro vs immersion
21:38 Immersion form factor challenges
22:26 MicroBT immersion deployment
24:21 Cost difference
25:42 Cooling fluid & thermodynamics
28:24 Fluid longevity
29:14 Auradine
32:32 Firmware & chip uptime
34:47 Auradine conclusion
35:35 What cooling is best?
37:14 Extreme temps
39:23 Curtailing with hydro units
42:21 New Bitmain unit
45:34 Bitmain changing PDUs
48:13 Curtailing (4CP)
49:15 Curtailing (PPA)
51:16 Ancillary grid services
52:43 4CP operations
55:10 Renewable & Texas grid
58:56 Future of solar
1:03:52 Miners, data centers & interconnections
1:06:22 Texas' isolated grid
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s roundup, Will, Colin, and Matt discuss the bombshell news that Swan Bitcoin is suing its former employees and contractors, alleging that the cabal stole proprietary aspects of Swan’s bitcoin mining business. Speaking of corporate sparring, the gang also covers the news that Riot and Bitfarms have settled (for now, at least) their dispute over Riot’s attempts to acquire its rival. They also discuss Bitdeer’s new SEAL02 ASIC chip, which Bitdeer claims is capable of 13.5 J/TH power efficiency, and why bitcoin mining ASICs are not securities despite some reporting to the contrary. Finally, in this week’s cry corner, they address the indefatigable, maddening myths that persist about Bitcoin’s global electricity use (no Bill Maher, Bitcoin does not use 8% of the world’s electricity, but thank you for playing!).
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Timestamps:
CHAPTERS
00:00 Start
00:14 Swan mining lawsuit
11:01 Difficulty update
17:03 Riot vs Bitfarms
27:14 Bitdeer’s SEAL02 chip
35:25 Green Mining SEC suit not dismissed
38:59 Hut 8 GPU-as-a-Service Goes Live
42:47 Cry corner: Bill Maher is wrong
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For this week's Bitcoin Mining Stock Show, Colin sits down with Taras Kulyk, the CEO and co-founder of Synteq Digital. The fellas open the show by talking about the differences between the AI/HPC and ASIC hardware markets, why its (much) easier for traditional data center operators to access capital markets than bitcoin miners, and whether or not Core Scientific can capitalize on its AI promises. For the second half of the show, Taras dives into what has changed in the ASIC market since the April 2024 Halving, plus the great migration of older models like the S19 and M30 series to lower cost areas in the global South. Finally, Taras shares his views on Bitmain's new U3S21EXPH hydro-cooled ASIC miner and his vision for the future of data center cooling.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s show, Colin interviews Rob Warren, the author of The Bitcoin Miner’s Almanac. Standing up a bitcoin mining operation is a herculean task. From managing ASICs, to standing up infrastructure, to navigating power contracts, bitcoin miners have to learn everything from IT management to hardware maintenance – and everything in between. That’s why Rob wrote The Bitcoin Miner’s Almanac, to help newcomer and veteran miners alike easily navigate the daunting, complicated minutiae of bitcoin mining. In our conversation, we touch on what inspired the book, Rob’s experience researching and writing it, and what he plans to include in the second edition. This isn’t your grandfather’s almanac…
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:03 The Bitcoin Miner's Almanac
12:21 Forget about Bitcoin
20:14 Making sense of the energy industry
28:37 Energy monopolies
33:01 Pros & cons of energy production
40:33 Book version 2
52:26 Machine form factors
1:02:41 Interviewing miners
1:10:23 Stranded energy opportunities
1:15:49 Wrap up
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s news roundup, the crew dives into Hut 8’s partnership with Bitmain on the manufacturer’s new hydro-cooled ASIC model, the U3S21EXPH. Matt also gives everyone a geography lesson with his overview of Bhutan and its hoard of 13,011 BTC worth $780 million, the fourth largest BTC reserve of any nation, and Colin covers Rober F. Kennedy Jr.’s letter to the editor in the Economist in which he defends Bitcoin mining for its utility as a flexible load for renewable energy. Plus, a former President, a bitcoin mining CEO, and a pub owner walk into a bar, and everyone leaves with a burger paid in bitcoin (yes, every outlet has covered this story, but we are too). And finally in this week’s cry corner, the unfortunate story of a Norwegian town whose residents will pay more for power after a bitcoin mine ceased operations.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:38 Difficulty update
03:36 Fractal fees
07:23 Hut 8 and Bitmain ASIC partnership
12:50 Bhutan got them bags!
19:19 RFK Economist letter to the editor
23:12 Trump's Bitcoin Burger
29:32 Cry Corner: Norwegian energy costs rise
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