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With over 200 shows, The Mining Pod is the industry’s best resource for the latest news and strategies in Bitcoin mining. Trusted by over 3,000 subscribers, including mining executives, operators and fund managers such as Marathon Digital, Cleanspark and BitCap.
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March 23, 2025 • 41 mins
President Trump makes a pivot from Bitcoin to stablecoins in his latest policy statements. Reality check: stablecoins now account for over 50% of all crypto settlement volume, with Tether becoming the 7th largest holder of US Treasuries globally. We break down how stablecoins are being used in emerging markets, why Tron dominates the stablecoin landscape despite centralization concerns, and what this means for Bitcoin's relationshi...
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Dek/excerpt: Slightly over 30 minutes, but we hit all the mining stories you care about this week!
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Welcome to another packed episode of The Mining Pod! Hosts discuss the current hash price bear market, with difficulty adj...
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March 18, 2025 • 31 mins
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Welcome to The Mining Pod! Charlie Brady, VP of Investor Relations at BitFuFu joins us to dive into their Bitcoin mining operations. We explore their strategic expansion in Ethiopia with electricity costs under $0.04/kWh, their ...
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March 14, 2025 • 34 mins
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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 deregul...
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March 11, 2025 • 52 mins
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Daniel Leslie, CTO of Coin Safe Limited, joins us to discuss Bitcoin mining in Australia. Despite Australia's massive size, its mining footprint remains tiny at around 100MW total capacity. Daniel explains how Australia's renewable-heavy grid (35-39%) creates price volatility and operational challenges similar to Texas. He shares insights on how miners could become crucial grid-balancing asset...
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March 7, 2025 • 31 mins
Charlie and Matt fill in for Colin and Will on this week's Mining Pod. They discuss Core We've's public listing plans and its 12-year, $10.2B contract with Core Scientific, making it the AI darling of American markets. They debunk rumors about Microsoft canceling CoreWeave contracts, cover US customs releasing seized Bitcoin miners after months of delays, and analyze Cathedra's $21M sale of a 60MW North Dakota mining site. The epis...
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March 4, 2025 • 51 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Haley Thomson, director of energy trading at Luxor
Technologies, joins us to dive deep into ERCOT's unique energy market and how Texas plans to manage the incoming wave of AI and HPC data ce...
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March 1, 2025 • 49 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For today’s Bitcoin Stock Show, MARA’s Chief Strategy Officer Adam Swick joins to discuss the forward-looking plans CEO Fred Thiel mentioned in MARA’s 2024 earnings call. Specifically, Swick unpack...
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February 25, 2025 • 30 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, hosts Colin and Will dive into the ongoing saga of US Customs and Border Protection seizing Bitcoin mining hardware at various ports of entry. Initially targeting Antminer units in late 2024...
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February 21, 2025 • 42 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s news round, the boys are back, and they came with receipts on the billions of dollars institutions have invested in public bitcoin miners. Plus, BitFuFu is expanding its presence in...
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February 20, 2025 • 52 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Harry Sudock, SVP of CleanSpark, joins us to dive deep into the company's pure-play Bitcoin mining strategy. Harry breaks down their four-pillar approach: energy efficiency, Bitcoin focus, o...
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February 18, 2025 • 41 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Erik and Phillip from Gridless join us to discuss Bitcoin mining in East Africa. From dealing with wildlife to building custom mining software, they share how they're monetizing stranded ene...
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February 16, 2025 • 47 mins
It’s now openly acknowledged that the crypto industry has been targeted for years by the previous administration’s Operation Chokepoint 2.0 scheme. Charlie & Colin discuss how last week’s hearing saw Senators Warren & Scott addressed the matter before the House Financial Services Committee. We explain how we got here and where we might go as an industry.
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February 14, 2025 • 37 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s news roundup, Colin and Matt talk about the big story Blockspace broke this week: the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency is seizing Antminer ASICs at ports of entry, and it’s also started to detain MicroBT and Canaan units. Plus, the $500 bi...
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February 13, 2025 • 37 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For today/s Bitcoin Stock Show, Bit Digital CEO Sam Tabar joins to talk about WhiteFiber, the company’s AI/ HPC business line.
This week, Bit Digital rebranded its AI/HPC business to WhiteFiber in a bid to distinguish it from its bitcoin mining business. Sam dis...
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February 11, 2025 • 39 mins
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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 ha...
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February 7, 2025 • 41 mins
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Colin, Will, and Matt are back at it this week with a packed docket of news. Bitdeer has acquired the rights for a $90 million, 101 MW natural gas power plant in Alberta in a bid to become even more vertically integrated, and Cipher cashes in on Project Stargate with a $50 million investment from Softbank. Plus, two cheers for taxation (but not actually): Russia has codified a tax code for bitcoin mi...
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February 6, 2025 • 65 mins
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For today’s Bitcoin Stock Show, Kevin Dede, a managing director of equity research at investment bank H.C. Wainwright, joins to discuss AI/HPC hybrid bitcoin miners vs. pure-play ones – specifically, which strategy Dede is bullish on for 2025 and beyond. We touch on what the $500 billion project Stargate means for bitcoin miner AI aspirations, what he thinks of Riot and Bitfarms evaluating their site...
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February 4, 2025 • 49 mins
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Andrew Burchwell from the Ohio Blockchain Council joins us to discuss Bitcoin mining in Ohio. From groundbreaking state
legislation and strategic reserve bills to the challenges with utility tariffs, Andrew shares insights on building Bitcoin-friendly policy at the state level. He also dives into Ohio's energy future, the role of natural gas and nuclear power, and how Bitcoin mining fits into ...
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January 31, 2025 • 48 mins
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Colin and Matt are back for this week’s news roundup. They touch on Hive’s $85 million, 200 MW acquisition of a Yguazu, Paraguay bitcoin mine from Bitfarms. Plus, Grayscale launches a bitcoin miner ETF, a home-mining device wins a $330,000 bitcoin block for charity, and why the market freaked out over DeepSeek this week. And for this week’s cry corner, why you shouldn't trust Brad Garlinghouse’s call...
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