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July 15, 2025 • 43 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Lee Bratcher, President of the Texas Blockchain Council, joins us to talk about the newly signed Senate Bill 6 that completely overhauls interconnect...
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July 13, 2025 • 59 mins
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Gwart joins us to talk about the collapse of crypto's "public goods" era and why the revenue meta is taking over. We dive deep into the fat protocol thesis, why DAOs failed, the difference between Bitcoin and crypto, and how builders are finally focusing on sustainable businesses instead of token hacking.
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July 11, 2025 • 45 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Ben Harper from Luxor Technology joins us to discuss CoreWeave's $9 billion acquisition of Core Scientific, IREN’s $130 million Nvidia GPU purchase, hashprice hitting $60 for t...
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July 8, 2025 • 51 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin and Will break down CoreWeave's meteoric rise to a $75+ billion valuation and why Bitcoin miners like Core Scientific, Galaxy Digital, and Applied Digital are all racing to partner with AI cloud providers. We explore CoreWeave’s neocloud business model, GPU economics vs bitcoin mining profitability, and what this means for the future of the mining ...
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July 7, 2025 • 18 mins
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AI hyperscaler CoreWeave (CRWV) announced today that it will acquire Core Scientific (CORZ) in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $9 billion. We react on the news!
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July 6, 2025 • 47 mins
Colin and Charlie dive deep into the Nakamoto Project's groundbreaking survey revealing what the average American really thinks about Bitcoin. From surprising ownership demographics to political shifts and moral foundations, this data challenges everything you think you know about who owns Bitcoin and why.
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**Notes:**
• 48 million Americans own Bitcoin (18.6% surv...
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin and Matt are joined by Ethan Vera, the COO of Luxor Technology, to talk about Hut 8's 205 MW Vega facility and its 310 MW deal to deliver electricity to Ontario. Plus, American Bitcoin's $220 million fundraise, an ASIC market update, Tether's surprise mining expansion into Brazil, and how just four public companies now control nearly a quarter of B...
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July 1, 2025 • 44 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Brian Wright, co-head of mining data centers at Galaxy Digital joins us to talk about their massive pivot from bitcoin mining to HPC at the Helios facility. We dive into the company’s CoreWeave partnership, scaling from 200MW to a potential 2.5GW, Texas grid dynamics, and transforming rural Dickens County's economy through data center development.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Luxor CEO Nick Hansen joins Colin to talk about CoreWeave’s bombshell proposal to acquire Core Scientific, Riot selling off part of its stake in Bitfarms at a 59% haircut, a new Texas law forcing data center curtailment during grid emergencies, and why Bitcoin's hash rate drop wasn't caused by US strikes on Iran (spoiler: it was just really ho...
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June 24, 2025 • 34 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Brandon Bailey of Second Gate Advisory joins Will to talk about Bitcoin ATMs, an overlooked Bitcoin business model with massive potential. In Q1 2025, Bitcoin Depot generated $164.2M in revenue, a 19% increase year-over-year, while outperforming miners in cash flow per unit. We explore why physical ATMs matter in a digital world, expansion opp...
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June 20, 2025 • 51 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Haley Thomson from Luxor Technology joins Will and Colin to discuss how Texas bitcoin miners are adapting to 4CP, peak load occurrences in the ERCOT system. On the news front, the trio covers US-listed public miners reaching a record 31.6% of Bitcoin's hashrate, Antalpha's stellar Q1, and growing concerns about whether or not the growing corpo...
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June 17, 2025 • 45 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Sean McDonough, president and founder of New West Data joins us to talk about the company’s vertically integrated oil and gas bitcoin mining operations in Alberta, Canada. We explore the pros and cons of full O&G ownership versus JV partnerships, barriers for large oil companies entering Bitcoin mining, regulatory considerations in Alberta, an...
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June 13, 2025 • 55 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Will, Colin, Matt, and Nick discuss Bitcoin mining's summer slowdown, American Bitcoin's massive 25 EH/s anticipated ramp up, a big week for public miner fundraising, Amazon's $20B Pennsylvania data center investment, institutional ETF flows showing hedge fund exits, and the controversial filter wars dividing Bitcoin's community.
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June 10, 2025 • 47 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Dipuo Patel, CTO of Soluna, joins us to talk about renewable-powered Bitcoin mining operations, including Soluna's Project Annie - a 75MW solar-powered data center in northeast Texas. We dive into the challenges of behind-the-meter renewable mining, curtailment solutions, production tax credits, and how Bitcoin mining can solve renewable energ...
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Will, Colin and Matt talk about May mining production numbers from major players like CleanSpark, Riot, and Marathon; the explosive growth of corporate Bitcoin treasury companies following MicroStrategy's playbook; and CoreWeave’s $7 billion deal with Applied Digital. Plus, for this week’s cry corner, silver just hit a 13-year high, but it’s s...
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June 3, 2025 • 54 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Tyler Page (CEO) and Chris Totin (CCO) from Cipher Mining join us to talk about their strategic pivot from pure-play bitcoin mining to hybrid approach with AI/HPC data centers, SoftBank's $50M investment, the ins-and-outs of building HPC data centers, and why they're betting big on the convergence of bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence ...
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June 1, 2025 • 77 mins
PortlandHODL explains Bitcoin's most dangerous vulnerability: poison blocks. These malicious blocks can freeze nodes for 11+ hours on Raspberry Pi devices and 25 minutes on enterprise hardware, creating profitable attack opportunities for miners while exposing how relay policy acts as an accidental guardian of the network.
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• Poison Blocks (denial of service)
• Raspberry Pi validation: 11 ...
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May 31, 2025 • 26 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin and Will are recording from the Las Vegas Bitcoin Conference. They drop in on topics like Bitmain's new Antminer S23 series achieving sub-10 joules per terahash efficiency, Swan's paused lawsuit against former mining employees and contractors, Pakistan's ambitious 2GW allocation announcement, the Trump administration tariff legal battles...
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May 27, 2025 • 81 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Nazar Khan, co-founder of TeraWulf, joins us to talk about the company's move into AI data centers. We talk about the Core42 partnership, breakout costs to build a facility, and their 750MW Lake Mariner site development plans.
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May 25, 2025 • 31 mins
Charlie and Colin reveal the shocking truth about Bitcoin Pizza Day that mainstream media got wrong. Laszlo didn't just spend 10,000 Bitcoin on pizza - he spent nearly 80,000 Bitcoin throughout 2010! We dive deep into how his GPU mining discovery revolutionized Bitcoin, why Satoshi sent him a concerned email, and how this "penance" may have actually saved Bitcoin's decentralization in its early days.
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• Laszlo spent ~80...
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