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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…
You can purchase The Bitcoin Miner’s Almanac on Amazon or the Bitcoin Magazine store.
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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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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Pow.re Co-founder and CTO Ian Descoteaux joins us today to talk about all things ASIC miners. In the conversation, we speak at length about the Antminer S21, including his experience deploying this model, its quirks / failure rates, and its performance. We also touch on ASIC prices and manufacturer competition, including why MicroBT’s Whatsminers are more expensive than other models, and whether or not Auradine and Canaan will be competitive in the near-future.Finally, we close on his takes regarding Bitmain’s newest hydro model, the U3S21EXPH.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:29 Update
03:11 New ASIC frustrations
04:16 ASIC price competition
06:20 Why MicroBT expensive
06:57 Canaan & Auradine
07:52 S21 deployment experience
09:46 ASIC failure rate
10:51 Repairs
12:46 Paraguay ASIC repair cost
14:44 S21 deliveries
16:07 S21 quirks?
18:39 New Bitmain units
20:02 Current ASIC market
23:05 U3S21EXPH Rack System
27:08 New equipment pushing market split
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Will and Colin hop on for another duo pod this week for one of the most eclectic roundups yet. The numbers are in for August for the public bitcoin mining world, and these companies are slowly (but steadily) expanding their hashrate, while also collectively selling more than 1,200 BTC over the month. In a testament to bitcoin mining’s utility for utilities, Japan’s largest power company, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), is mining bitcoin with a portion of its renewable energy assets. Finally, the lads breakdown the juicy details of sidechain Fractal Bitcoin’s first week. And in this week’s cry corne – in which Darryl Cooper (Martyr Made) gets BSV-pilled – they touch on the irony of an alternative historian storing his podcasts on a blockchain launched by a man who tried rewriting the history of Bitcoin.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:05 Difficulty update
05:03 August miner updates
11:29 Tokyo mining BTC!
17:49 Fractal Bitcoin update
25:12 Cry Corner: Darryl Cooper BSV pilled
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Sam Tabar, CEO of NASDAQ-listed Bit Digital, joins us today to talk about Bit Digital’s post-Halving mining strategy and (more importantly) what the company is doing to scale its AI business line. Bit Digital earned $12.5 million with its HPC services in Q2-2024, the most of any AI-focused public bitcoin miner. During the show, Tabar discusses how they executed to reach this milestone, their aspirations to book $700 million in AI revenue over the next five years, and more – including a few choice words regarding miners who plan to retrofit existing bitcoin miners for AI/HPC jobs. Note, this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not financial advice.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Waiting room
02:02 Introduction
03:00 Biggest changes to bitcoin mining since Q1 2020
7:10 Why Bit Digital is committed to asset-light bitcoin mining
15:00 Four models for bootstrapping AI/HPC load
20:20 HPC compute pricing structures
23:00 Bit Digital sale-leaseback financing for HPC GPUs
25:20 $700m Boosteroid agreement details
29:20 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!
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👉 Show links: https://hashrateindex.com/blog/tokenizing-hashrate-blockstream-mining-note-2-bmn2/
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"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today we are joined by Adam Back, cryptographer and CEO of Blockstream. Well known for its sidechain software Liquid, among other projects, Blockstream is actually a large private Bitcoin miner. In today’s show, we go through Blockstream mining with Back, including its profile as a miner (energy, locations, fleet). Then we dive into the BMN2, a new financial instrument to help people mine Bitcoin without ever touching a Bitcoin miner! Note, this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not financial advice.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:11 Blockstream's mining background
08:46 Mining Note details
16:53 Secondary markets & Mining Notes
19:49 Typical investor profile
28:39 Why not self mine?
32:07 Where does Blockstream profit?
36:39 Production costs & cycle timing
42:05 Upgrading ASICs or not?
45:29 Lessons learned, changes made
50:31 Post Interview Discussion
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!
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👉 Show links: https://hashrateindex.com/blog/tokenizing-hashrate-blockstream-mining-note-2-bmn2/
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Rhodium is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and they’re going to need cash to get through the restructuring. So in comes Galaxy Digital, which is offering a $30m (or 500 BTC!) loan, in a move that could be a savvy attempt to acquire Rhodium assets. Turning to the ASIC market, bitcoin miner prices are down – a lot – and Bitmain could have a hand in the sluggish demand given how quickly it is releasing new versions of the S21. For a bit of lighthearted news, the guys get cosmic pontificating on interstellar bitcoin mining, while also taking a less lighthearted look at drooping crypto market sentiment. And to close the show, they roast – and we wish we were joking here – a tokenized vaping product(because who doesn’t want to get paid to contract popcorn lung?).
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:24 Difficulty update
05:32 Galaxy offers $30M to Rhodium
12:18 Too many ASICs!
22:04 Mining in spaceeee?!
28:10 Sentiment is bearishh :(
34:13 Cry Corner: Web3 Vaping…?
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!
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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner!
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Before 2023, most folks probably associated AI with the far-off dystopias of The Terminator, The Matrix, or other depictions in pop culture. Now, AI is permeating every corner of our culture and economy as applications like Chat-GPT have taken a place alongside Google as the habitual tools of the internet’s citizenry. At the core of all of these applications – as with every facet of the Internet – is computing power, and bitcoin miners are betting big on becoming key producers of this compute. On this episode of the Bitcoin Stock Show, Tom Masiero of Cathedra Bitcoin shares his vision for how bitcoin miners factor into the most consequential technological revolution since the Internet.
@FarmahTom Director @CathedraBitcoin $CBIT
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Timestamps:
00:00 Livestream waiting room
11:15 Show introduction
12:30 Tom introduction and background
14:30 Breakdown of different HPC datacenter strategies
20:50 Difference between datacenter tiers
22:25 Types of HPC services bitcoin miners provide
27:30 Are clusters of compute the same as concentrated compute?
29:40 What is a mullet miner anyway?
33:45 Differences between small and large datacenters
37:40 Breakdown of different HPC strategies from bitcoin miners
44:45 The role of bitcoin miners in the AI race
52:40 Bitcoin miners and AI/HPC are PB&J
54:50 Why is Nvidia so dominant?
1:03:56 Is the H100 the S17 of AI?
1:09:50 Three categories of bitcoin miners
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! This week we are joined by Brandon Bailey (a.k.a. Bitcoin Beezy), a co-founder of Second Gate advisory and a former VP of mining at Galaxy Digital, to discuss his recent research note on Bitdeer. He argues that the public miner, which is sometimes overlooked for some combination of language barriers and the team’s geographic distance from North America, is massively undervalued. He digs into Bitdeer’s bitcoin mining business and its burgeoning ASIC miner manufacturing line to make the case that the company deserves a valuation comparable to Riot, Marathon, CleanSpark, and Core Scientific.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:11 Bitdeer Research Note
03:46 Bitdeer as public company underdog
08:12 2025 Projected Growth
12:42 market segments
14:59 Total Revenue
16:10 Self mining vs hosting
18:34 New ASICs
23:46 ASIC manufacturing at scale
30:13 Advantages of vertical integration
35:08 Bitdeer can shift market segments
37:03 AI & HPC
41:11 AI training profitability
45:34 3 AI Compute approaches
50:43 Final thoughts
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Blockspace broke news this weekend that Texas-based bitcoin miner Rhodium is going bankrupt, and we follow up in today’s show about what we do and don’t know regarding the incipient restructuring. As Rhodium starts restructuring its debt, other bitcoin miners have been expanding, with mergers and acquisitions becoming the second hottest trend this summer in the mining sector. The hottest trend, though, is AI, and we’ve got the straight skinny on how public bitcoin miners are approaching the hyped-up sector. And in this week’s Cry Corner, the gang addresses yet more quibbling about Bitcoin’s energy use (when Solomon said that there’s nothing new under the sun, he was really talking about energy FUD…).
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:19 Difficulty report
03:27 Rhodium files for bankruptcy
08:28 Bitfarms acquires Stronghold
09:07 GDA expansion
09:28 Cipher Mining's new site
15:04 AI & HPC industry update report
22:09 Cry Corner
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!
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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!
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Welcome back to the show! We’re sitting down with film maker and documentarian Alana Mediavilla to discuss her new film “Dirty Coin,” which premiered on the Bitcoin Halving this year and will go to market in late 2024! In this sit-down interview at Bitcoin Nashville, we discuss film work in Bitcoin, various locations filmed and the stories behind them and how Bitcoin mining is the “hands and feet” of Bitcoin compared to the ‘Number Go Up’ strategy most people consider.
If you enjoyed the show, keep an eye out for Dirty Coin at a theater near you and follow the social accounts at @DirtyCoinDoc and @AlanaMediavilla!
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:35 Starting Dirty Coin
04:01 Background
12:17 Funding
14:23 Screening
14:47 Bitcoin Film festival;
15:57 Reception of the film
16:42 Made for no-coiners
18:11 CLIP: Monetizing Waste
24:21 CLIP: Seneca Lake
29:26 CLIP: History of the Electrical Grid
36:18 The goal of the movie
42:59 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.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! On Thursday, Bitcoin transaction fees soared to their highest levels since April, but it has nothing to do with runes or inscriptions. This go around, it was all thanks to the launch of Babylon Chain, a new off-chain BTC staking platform. We also tackle Bitfarms’ merger with Stronghold and what it could mean (or not mean) for Riot’s ongoing attempt at a hostile share takeover of Bitfarms. Finally, we close on the latest Q2 figures and operational updates from public bitcoin miners, and Colin rants about why the IMF needs to take their bitcoin miner tax proposal and shove it...someplace where it won’t see the light of day.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:33 Difficulty report
04:45 ASIC prices
12:13 Babylon staking
15:51 Bitfarms Expands with $175M Stronghold Merger
16:47 Riot vs Bitfarms Poison Pill
25:30 Public Miner Reports
32:19 IMF Idea to Tax Bitcoin Miners
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.
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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!
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Welcome back to the show! This week, we’re joined by ‘The Coin Dad,’ one of the familiar faces around Bitcoin mining conferences (and mines!) with an extensive history in the small, young sector. The Coin Dad takes us through his personal life–including an overseas deployment to the Middle East–to his time entering Bitcoin mining, including deploying tens of thousands of machines for some of the largest mining companies and fabricating entire container designs. We fininish with a conversation about the Bitcoin Mining Museum, a passion project begun multiple years ago to preserve the history of Bitcoin mining hashrate!
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:31 Coin Dad's background
10:27 Starting mining
13:37 Altcoin fail
19:30 Start working in Bitcoin
33:46 Mining museum
44:06 Bitcoin shoes
47:34 Time for a brick & morter
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!
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Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell
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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! How much have public miners raised since Q2? A lot – like, $2.2 billion kind of a lot. The majority of this liquidity flows from at-the-market (and other) stock offerings in Q2, while a handful of miners have also turned toward convertible notes for financing in Q3. In addition to that news, we also cover a story that Blockspace broke regarding CleanSpark’s desire to launch its own mining pool, and we finish the feel good underdog story that yes, solo miners are still out there (and they’re actually making money).
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:43 Bitcoin mining market / metric update
7:50 Publicly traded Bitcoin miners raise $2.1 billion since Q2
10:00 Bitdeer $150 million convertible note
12:46 Marathon $250 million convertible note to buy BTC
14:21 Core Scientific $350 convertible note to pay down debt
17:13 When CleanSpark pool?
23:48 Bitaxe and solo mining 33:54
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!
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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner!
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! This week we are joined by Zach Bradford, CEO of Cleanspark, to discuss Cleanspark’s exlplosive 2024 growth. From purchasing peer miner Griid to new sites in multiple states, Bradford goes through Cleanspark’s last twelve months, why the company is focused on Bitcoin and Bitcoin only, why Cleanspark is focused on building in the US (but maybe not forever!), comparative strategies like MARA’s new HODL and possibly some tech developments worth listening to the end of the show for.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:15 12 month recap of operations
05:57 Why not pivot to AI?
11:19 Texas is too crowded
13:27 International power locations
15:56 Griid acquisition
19:24 Swapping Griid's old rigs?
21:28 Texas vs Georgia
24:46 Bitcoin treasury
29:18 Marathon's current strategy
31:55 Growth strategies
37:15 Launching a pool?
38:02 Bitcoin Core development
38:55 New rigs
40:06 Wen zetahash?
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.
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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! This week we’re in studio talking about Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news! Colin Harper, our new Editor-in-Chief, walks us through important updates including mining revenue bottoming to historic lows, Iris Energy (IRENE) struggling after a failed hedging strategy this summer in Texas, a flopped narrative violation on China banning (or not banning, depending on the quality of your research) Bitcoin mining and Paraguay trying to bring more Bitcoin mining down south!
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:44 Difficulty report
06:13 Miner Mag: $150M into new ASIC design
09:43 Core Scientific Signs AI Contract
20:49 Iris Energy Power Usage Spike
24:43 Miners Holding BTC
30:27 Paraguay 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!
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Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.
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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! This week we are joined by Bitcoin Mechanic, arguably the face of Ocean Pool. Ocean launched in November 2023 with a lot of hope, excitement and promise, even getting a node from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey with an investment. The Ocean Pool team promised to decentralize Bitcoin mining through novel block template options for individual miners, a new payout structure called Tides and, to much criticism, the filtering of Ordinals and Inscription projects natively.
In this interview, we go through what happened over the course of 2024 with Ocean Pool, how its attracting hashrate, revisiting the ‘spam’ problem, block template construction and the future of Bitcoin in regards to MEV and future soft forks.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:08 Bitcoin Mechanic bio
05:26 Start9 & node runners
06:43 What's Ocean?
08:20 Who is Ocean different?
13:25 Block template centralization
22:27 Closed Source firmware
23:55 Ocean Biz Dev
25:03 How to attract miners?
34:56 PPLNS vs FPPS
45:03 Why would a miner switch?
49:39 How big is the market for hobbyist miners?
56:36 Corporate pools
59:31 Corporate MEV
1:03:04 Template construction
1:13:01 OPCAT & the future of BTC
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!
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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Charlie, Will and Matt jump on the mic to discuss this week’s Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news, including the largest Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustment since January 2023 at 10.5%, Riot’s increasing pressure on Bitfarms for control over the latter company’s future, new ASIC models debuting at Bitcoin Nashville from Auradine and MicroBT, Cantor Fitzgerald rolling out a $2 billion book for Bitcoin companies and MARA’s $100 million HODL position
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:30 Difficulty update (NGU edition)
07:04 MinerMag: Return of the HODL
09:13 Russia Legitimizes Mining
14:57 MinerMag: Aint No Love w/ Riot & Bitfarms
18:38 Cantor Enters BTC Lending
25:17 New MicroBT rigs
26:33 New Auradine rigs
29:06 Marathon goes full HODL mode
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!
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👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty!
Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Hive Digital is the oldest publicly listed Bitcoin mining stocks. It’s also one of the most conservative and efficient miners on the market. So why does it want to lean into AI and HPC so aggressively? We brought on Frank Holmes and Aydin Kilic of Hive Digital to understand the Canadian Bitcoin miners play, including the team’s background, the expectation on hardware turnaround time, using a Bitcoin treasury, expanding operations in Paraguay and reducing the cost to mine Bitcoin on the corporate level.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:22 Frank background
04:24 Aydin background
08:39 Operations update
09:58 Hardware ROI 1 yr
12:46 BTC treasuries
17:39 Conservative growth
20:13 Paraguay mining operations
26:08 Zambia plans
31:46 Reducing costs of international expansion
39:00 Mining vs HPC vs AI profitability
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.
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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Ever wonder what to do with your mining stock equity, Bitcoin or other assets so you don’t get hit with a huge tax burden, financial issue or other inconvenience in life? Enter Bespoke Group, a family office and advisory focused on problems Bitcoiners face. We talk with Bespoke about managing your stack in a responsible way, from startup equity to tax structures to trusts.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:26 Matt's bio
04:09 Jack's bio
06:53 What is Bespoke?
14:38 Anon Bitcoiner that led to Bespoke
23:07 Convincing skeptical Bitcoiners
32:01 What's the pitch?
39:42 Stock option wealth planning
43:20 BTC income planning
56:00 Ordinals inheritance (no.. seriously)
1:00:47 What to do with gains?
1:05:33 Planning before the gains happen
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