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October 24, 2025 • 26 mins
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! This week, we dive into TeraWulf’s $3.2B secured note for AI infrastructure—the largest ever for a public miner – and Bitfarms’ $588M convertible note at a time when total industry debt crosses $20B.Plus, why data center companies are salvaging jet turbines to power data centers, CleanSpark’s SVP of AI Data Centers hire, and for this week’s cry corner, pour one out for the Kadena blockchain…
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October 21, 2025 • 42 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, we have a two-for-one show with two interviews we recorded at the North American Blockchain Summit. To start, Colin interviews Blue Macellari (Head of Digital Assets at T. Rowe Price) on how institutional adoption is fundamentally changing Bitcoin's market structure, the debasement trade narrative going mainstream, and why fast money hasn't arrived yet ...
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MARA’s CTO Shakeup, BlackRock’s $40B AI Deal, Bitdeer’s $2B AI Plans, Ionic Digital’s Microsoft Deal
October 17, 2025 • 39 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! This week, Luxor CEO Nick Hansen joins us to talk multi-month hashprice lows (how low do we go?), MARA firing its CTO, Ionic Digital’s Microsoft-linked AI deal, Bitdeer’s gangbusters September and $2B AI plans, and BlackRock taking the lead on a $40B data center company acquisition. Plus, the US government seizes $14.1B (potentially $16.5B total) in bitcoin fr...
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October 14, 2025 • 34 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Rory Murray, VP of digital asset management at CleanSpark, joins us to talk about the explosive markets we're seeing in late 2024, why he believes Bitcoin's four-year cycle is dead, and the secular trends that will define the next chapter of crypto. We dive deep into the debasement trade, record bitcoin ETF inflows, the intersection of macro and Bitcoin...
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October 10, 2025 • 25 mins
IREN continues its hot streak with a big raise, and crypto ETFs saw a record week last week.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Ethan Vera from Luxor joins us live from NABs in Dallas to talk about IREN's $875 million convertible note following their AI cloud deal announcement, Luxor's launch of an ERCOT-certified retail electric provider enabling Bitcoin-native power payments, last wee...
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October 7, 2025 • 33 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Will and Colin dive into JPMorgan's latest research report on Bitcoin mining stocks pivoting to AI and HPC. We analyze JPMorgan's IREN price target, break down the economics of co-location vs cloud services, and examine potential upside for Cipher, Riot, Clean Spark, and MARA.
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• Sweetwater needs 1GW+ deal to justify valuati...
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October 3, 2025 • 32 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Ben Harper from Luxor Technologies joins us to talk about the brutal hash rate environment as hashrate surges past 1 zettahash. For news, we break down ICE's raid on a Bitcoin miner repair shop in Pyote, Texas, Core Scientific’s shareholder vote for the CoreWeave acquisition, and Tether's massive 86,000+ BTC treasury.
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• Difficulty increa...
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September 30, 2025 • 55 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, independent stock analyst Pennyether joins us to talk about Bitcoin hashrate crossing 1 zettahash, the economics of ASIC manufacturing, and how Bitdeer could challenge Bitmain's dominance. We explore why miners spend 35-40% of revenue on ASICs, the HPC narrative driving mining stocks up, and why hashrate will continue growing exponentially despite megaw...
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September 26, 2025 • 25 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! On today’s round up, we dive deep into Cipher Mining's $3 billion AI hosting deal with Fluid Stack, backed by Google's $1.4 billion guarantee. And as hashrate surges to 1,100 EH/s, miners are struggling with sub-$50 hash prices. Plus MicroBT has opened a U.S. distribution hub, and IREN’s aggressive GPU expansion.
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• Cipher signed $3B AI deal with...
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September 23, 2025 • 38 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Christopher Stott, the CEO and founder of Lonestar Data Holdings, joins us to talk about putting computer storage in space! Chris explains how Lonestar managed to place a data storage device on the moon (with more to come), why nation states want lunar data backups, why space’s natural cooling and solar power provide optimal conditions for these mini dat...
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September 19, 2025 • 39 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Matt Williams, the head of financial services at Luxor, joins Will and Colin to dive into this week’s bitcoin mining news, including a massive bitcoin mining stock rally, Nvidia's $5 billion investment into Intel, and Bitdeer's new SEALMINER A3 ASIC miner series. Plus, Matt teases a new energy market product coming soon from Luxor, and we examine NAKA’s ...
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September 16, 2025 • 39 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Mike Alfred, founder of Alpine Fox LP and a non‑executive director at IREN, joins us to talk about Bitcoin mining economics, AI‑GPU arbitrage, the importance of owning physical infrastructure, and how his permanent‑capital fund navigates massive drawdowns while staying contrarian in a hype‑driven market.
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00:00 Start
03:51 Alpine Fox Fund
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September 12, 2025 • 29 mins
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On the latest Mining Pod news roundup, Will and Mat discuss Bitcoin’s 5 %+ difficulty jump, to Tether’s courtroom win over Swan, GOP calls for a CFIUS review of Bitmain, AI’s creeping impact on hashrate, and the claim that Ocean Pool’s CEO Luke Dashjar earns $750k a year.
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00:00 Start
02:40 Difficulty Report
06:37 CIFR, other mining stocks rip
11:21 Tether eyes victory in ...
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September 9, 2025 • 39 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Brandon Mintz, CEO of Bitcoin Depot joins Colin to talk about building the largest Bitcoin ATM network in North America with 9,000+ machines. They discuss how the Bitcoin ATM business model...
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September 5, 2025 • 27 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin and Will with Luxor’s ASIC Trading Desk Senior Account Manager Sarah Tang about the ASIC market landscape, including how tariffs are impacting pricing, demand, and futures orders, plu...
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September 2, 2025 • 49 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, James McAvity, CEO of bitcoin miner Cormint, joins us to talk about a potential, looming existential crisis for Bitcoin: low transaction fee revenue. With transaction fees at only 2% of min...
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August 29, 2025 • 33 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, the crew digs into reports that ABTC could start trading as soon as September, how hashrate looks primed to rip, IREN’s 4,200 GPU buy, and a surprising Ocean Pool hashrate reporting glitch....
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August 26, 2025 • 44 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, TicTacc Director of Business Development Michael Rhoden joins us to talk about the current state of the ASIC market in 2025, including the impact of tariffs on pricing and demand, Proto’s A...
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August 22, 2025 • 40 mins
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Luxor CEO Nick Hanson joins us to discuss TeraWulf's upsized convertible note and Google boosting its WULF stake to 14%, [Micro]Strategy's flip-flop on share dilution, Applied Digital's $3B...
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August 21, 2025 • 37 mins
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Vuk Vuković, economist and co-founder of Oraculum Fund, joins us to talk about Jackson Hole expectations, Fed Chair Powell's next moves, Trump's pressure for rate cuts, tariff negotiations, and why Bitcoin now trades like a traditional risk asset. Vuković shares insights from his fund's unique crowd-sourced prediction methodology that accurately called Trump 2016 and Brexit.
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