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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 for crypto unity.  Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:57 Difficulty report 18:28 Grayscale miner ETF 33:26 Hashrate Fundraiser Mines Block 37:28 DeepSeek 43:36 Cry corner: Ripple CEO Very Sad 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! 

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s Bitcoin Stock Show, Colin welcomes Hive Executive Chairman Frank Holmes and CEO Aydin Kilic to discuss the company’s LOI to acquire Bitfarms’ 200 MW bitcoin mine in Yguazú, Paraguay for $85 million ($56 million for the site, $19 million for the PPA, and $10 million for construction contract). Once fully energized, the acquisition and Hive’s other, 100 MW site in Paraguay should catapult the company from 6 to 25 EH/s under management. During the conversation, Holmes and Aydin discuss why they are putting so many chips on Paraguay, the timeline for the 200 MW site’s completion, why they are outfitting it with Antminer S21 Hydros, and more.  Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:52 Deal process 07:48 Capital access & foreign mining sites 17:24 Tariffs on energy 24:15 Paraguay roll out phases 28:58 Cooling 32:02 Deal hand off 33:22 PPA 34:35 Regional power make up 39:24 Other Paraguay site? 40:08 2025 predictions 43:57 Energy as sovereign asset Published twice weekly, "The

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Erick Vera, the Latin America business development lead at Luxor, joins today to discuss the bitcoin mining industry in South America. Vera gives us a rundown of the region’s bitcoin mining hotspots – namely, Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil – and digs into the nuances, challenges, and opportunities bitcoin miners face in each country, including Paraguay’s gobs of hydro power, Brazil’s abandoned manufacturing sites that are ready for miners, and Argentina’s oil and gas field bitcoin mines. He also touches on other South America countries he thinks are primed for bitcoin mining adoption.  Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:14 Countries active in Latin America? 03:17 Venezuela 04:59 Active MW 06:00 Brazil & Argentina 12:45 Brazil & Paraguay hyrdopower 15:18 Paraguay regulations 21:04 Import tariffs 24:59 More tariffs, more problems 30:57 Migration & business classification 34:02 Slow growth in Brazil? 37:06 Abandoned industrial sites 40:55 Argentina 46:22 Argentina off grid sites 48:16

Ross Ulbricht is free, full pardon! But how did we get here & what actually was the Silk Road? Colin & Charlie dive in on this episode of Bitcoin Season 2. - Follow our hosts on X: @cbspears, @AsILayHodling Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, the gang covers news that Blockspace broke regarding a surprising mixed decision in Crusoe and Upstream Data’s patent dispute. Plus, Lancium gets in on the Project Stargate action with a 1.2 GW AI campus, a data recap from Hashrate Index’s 2024 Year-in-Review, and TSMC is fabbing ASIC chips for Bitdeer’s SEALMINER series in the U.S.A. And finally, for this week’s cry corner, scammers hijack Riot Platform’s X account to lure folks into the Solana memecoin casino.  Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:28 Difficulty report 05:36 Crusoe & Upstream 14:54 Lancium’s Project Stargate Deal 27:34 Hashrate Index 2024 Year-in-Review 45:36 TSMC US fabbed chips for Bitdeer 51:34 Cry corner: Riot Hack 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! 

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’ Bitcoin Stock Show, Colin sits down with Cathedra Bitcoin COO and President Drew Armstrong of Kungsleden Founder Tom Masiero, whose companies merged last year. They talk about Cathedra/Kungsleden’s infrastructure plays and strategy, bitcoin mining hosting vs. pure-play mining business strategies, what we can expect from the AI/HPC plays that are so hot right now, what Trump means for the bitcoin mining industry, and more. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:33 Stas Per Share memo 05:41 Synota deal 11:13 Hosting market 16:35 Hosted v self mining 22:15 Lesson learned last cycle 27:39 Kungsleden Merger 33:14 Core Scientific pivot 37:47 Buying AI GPUs 42:18 Trump changes 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! 

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Michael Carter (Bits Be Trippin) joins us to share his recent experience with city council meetings and mining facility approvals. From sound regulations to economic impact studies, Michael breaks down the challenges of establishing mining operations in municipal areas. Plus, we dive into 2025 forecasts, ASIC developments, and the evolving landscape of Bitcoin mining infrastructure. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:22 BBT updates 05:55 City council meeting 15:24 City zoning & mining 20:36 Anti-bitcoin sentiment? 25:48 Considering human impacts 28:34 Raising privet investment 36:19 Complexity of difficulty 41:15 New ASICs 45:58 Overheating Bitmain rigs 52:02 2025 outlook 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! 

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s Bitcoin Stock Show, we welcome back Second Gate Advisory Co-founder Brandon Bailey for a refresher on Bitdeer. Bailey first came on the show in September 2024 after penning an op-ed for Blockspace, “The bullish case for Bitdeer.” Since this analysis, Bitdeer is up 240%, and he thinks it has room to grow, largely because of the company’s burgeoning ASIC manufacturing line. We touch on the ASIC manufacturing line in depth in this episode, plus some insights into other newcomers to the ASIC manufacturing space.  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! 

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s news roundup, Colin and Will dig into Tether’s lawsuit against Swan Bitcoin, the latest development in a now two-front legal dispute over the companies’ bitcoin mining joint venture. Plus, the U.S. government is issuing trade restrictions against Sophgo, a Chinese computer chip company helmed by Bitmain CEO Micree Zhan, and F2Pool might be filtering transactions from OFAC-sanctioned Bitcoin addresses again. And finally, for this week’s cry corner, a Bitcoin mining company’s guerrilla sales tactic to get Ethereum DeFi platform AAVE to invest its treasury into bitcoin mining. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:30 Difficulty report 04:49 Tether sues Swan 16:14 BitFuFu Plans Oklahoma Mine 24:52 F2Pool Censoring TXs 33:37 Cry corner: AAVE to mine 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!

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, the CEO of Hashlabs Mining, Jaran Mellerud, joins Colin to discuss Bitcoin mining in Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Bitcoin mining on the European market is almost exclusively confined to these Nordic countries – this episode explores why. Jaran and Colin discuss power markets in these countries, why mining has gotten more expensive in Sweden and Norway, the toothless attempt to ban mining in Norway, how bitcoin miners are helping with district heating in Finland, and more. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:53 Jarran intro 02:31 Why is hashrate concentrated in Nordic countries? 05:42 How has mining there changed recently? 16:33 Cooling Hashlabs 20:37 Finland nuclear surplus 23:06 Finland district heating 24:53 Is Norway banning mining? 29:02 Iceland vs Norway AI data centers 31:25 Public vs private mining 33:16 Bitdeer expanding Norway 36:59 Iceland & Finland hydro & geothermal 38:57 Mining elsewhere in the EU? 41:20 Green manufacturing failing & excess power Publishe

We're dropping a show from Bitcoin Season 2, another podcast on Blockspace! If you enjoy the show, check it out on Spotify, Apple or wherever else you listen to podcasts! For today's Writer's Room, Colin and Charlie celebrate Running Bitcoin Day by picking through the Bitcoin Talk archives for a selection of Hal Finney's most prescient takes. Finney is famous for being the first person (after Satoshi) to run Bitcoin -- a claim to fame that involves receiving the first non-mining related transaction from Bitcoin's creator -- as well as being one of the earliest contributors to Bitcoin Core. Hal was highly active in Bitcoin's salad days and a prolific poster on Bitcoin Talk, where he provided his thoughts on Bitcoin's earliest versions, pontificated over the cryptocurrency's future, and shared ideas with its earliest adopters. Many of Hal's ideas and prognostications were incredibly incisive and clairvoyant -- almost frighteningly so -- hence the title of today's show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For today’s news roundup, Will, Colin, and Matt are joined by Luxor CEO, Nick Hansen. The gang covers news that Blockspace broke this week pertaining to a creditor lawsuit against former executives of defunct Compute North, the erstwhile bitcoin mining hosting titan that went bankrupt in 2022. Plus, Phoenix Group’s 50 MW bitcoin mine in North Dakota, a 2024 bitcoin mining market review from Nick, and Canaan’s new home mining heater series with the Nano 3S and Avalon Mini 3. And for this week’s cry corner, popular Ethereum browser wallet Metamask is adding support for…Bitcoin?  Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:19 Difficulty report 07:32 Creditors sue Compute North 16:30 Phoenix 50MW North Dakota site 27:18 Yearly overview 31:15 Canaan Nano 3 home heater 40:13 Cry corner: Metamask seeks Bitcoin product manager 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

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s Bitcoin Stock Show, Digital Mining Solutions Founder Nico Smid joins us to share insights from Digital Mining Solution’s 2024 year-end report. During the conversation, Smid shares his and his co-author Cindy Feng’s findings on a range of topics, including 2024’s hashrate growth relative to prior years, bitcoin mining trends in Latin America, pending mining IPOs, predictions for 2025, and more! 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! 

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Denis Rusinovich, a partner at the Cryptocurrency Mining Group, speaks to Colin about the particulars of the Russia bitcoin mining ban. News broke in December that Russia would be banning bitcoin mining in 10 regions, effective January 1, 2025 through March 15, 2031. Only the ban is not an all-out ban like the first wave of reporting would have us all believe. For today’s show, Rusinovich sets the record straight and gives us a rundown of the miners who are actually affected by the ban.  Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:09 Defining the "ban" 07:42 Legalizing mining 09:07 Identifying miners for regulation 10:22 The scope of Bitcoin mining in Russia 13:16 Subsidizing residential miners 15:50 Effect on global hashrate 17:09 Kazakhstan 22:59 Russia energy crisis? 25:54 Grid balancing 30:40 Oil & gas production areas 32:04 Chechnya 33:16 What regions have the most activity? 36:22 Miners vs hosting 37:42 Taxes 38:47 Where is investment capital coming from? 42:08 Hosted miners 43:1

This is a crossposted podcast from Bitcoin Season 2. We've got Stephen & Matthew, engineering & product on the Bitcoin side of MagicEden, explaining how the platform combines cutting edge tech w/ intuitive product design. Follow our guests: @MakeTokensFun @summraznboi -- Follow our host on X: @cbspears Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! --- Timestamps: 00:34 Intro 02:19 Roles in Magic Eden, Joining Ordinals 05:57 Growth in Bitcoin Ecosystem & Magic Eden’s Vision 07:13 Expanding Beyond Ordinals: Runes & Ecosystem Building 10:56 Marketplace Challenges & Collaboration in Engineering 20:33 User Benefits: Shield Icon, Mempool Fix & Cart Optimization 30:06 New Trading Features & Improved User Experience 33:11 Enhancing Liquidity & Making Runes Accessible 38:18 Mobile Launch & Broader Market Adaptation 42:28 Magic Eden’s Future in Bitcoin C

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Will and Colin are back from the holiday break with the latest news, plus an update on the ASIC hosting market from our friends at Compass. At the top of the news docket, they touch on Russia’s bitcoin mining ban, particularly which miners the ban actually affects (and which ones it doesn’t). Also in the rotation, BitFuFu’s massive 80k ASIC order from Bitmain, and an update on a few of Rhodium’s outstanding litigations. And for this week’s cry corner: pour one out for all the folks who were sad/big mad that they didn’t get invited to Michael Saylor’s $100k New Year’s Eve party… Timestamps: 00:00 Start 00:00 Start 01:51 Difficulty update 06:17 OMG Russia bans Bitcoin mining!!!!! 11:59 ASIC hosting market update 23:20 BitFuFu 80k miners 30:50 More trouble at Rhodium 36:46 Cry corner: No invite to Saylor party! 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 p

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Max Guise, a team member from Block’s Proto division, joins to talk about the company’s new ASIC chip. A veteran of Block, Guise has worked on everything from the Proto mining ASIC, to Square’s point-of-sale, and its hardware wallet Bitkey. During the discussion, Guise gives us a brief history of Proto’s origins, discusses the challenges of designing (and manufacturing and marketing!) a bitcoin mining ASIC, provides a timeline for the Proto ASIC rollout, and even graces us with a demo of the chip! Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:21 Max bio 03:56 Working at Square & CashApp 04:58 Building the point of sale product 06:20 Building hardware 09:48 Genesis of Proto 12:33 Open development 13:37 The team 14:59 What is Proto 16:59 Selling chips 19:56 Closed sourced firmware 21:38 Lifecycle examination 23:32 Market strategy 24:33 Financing 25:05 Hashrate as payment 26:16 Deployment 28:29 When new rig? 28:59 Ecosystem of products 30:13 Other components 30:58 Working with competing miners Pu

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Advanced Crypto Services (ACS) Founder James Scaggs and Co-founder Will Middleton join to talk about all the pertinent operational considerations for bitcoin mining, including the biggest question of all: whether it’s better to buy or mine bitcoin. They touch on the repair side of the business, how some of these older generation ASICs are holding up, which models are the best bang for your buck, and common failure points for ASIC hardware. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:37 Bios 04:20 10-20 MW mining operation 06:51 DIY mentality 08:24 Revenue 11:17 ASIC resale market 15:45 Rig prices vs hashprice 23:13 Are S19s the new S9s? 27:31 Aluminum backed hash boards 30:19 Advice for beginners 39:30 Off peak hour mining 44:31 Upgrading rigs 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! 

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s Bitcoin Stock Show, we’re joined by a great friend of the show, Pennyether. Some of y’all might recognize Penny from a couple of the earnings calls we streamed on The Bitcoin Stock Show earlier this year. He’s one of the most insightful independent bitcoin mining stock analysts in the game, and in this episode, he shares his methodology for valuing bitcoin miners, which metrics he finds the most (and least) useful, and his thoughts on the AI boom in mining. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:53 The mining metrics that matter 10:33 More important metrics 19:24 Valuing AI and miners together 26:55 A note on Bitfarms 28:32 What does the market actually care about? 33:10 Thoughts on convertible debt 36:55 How to hedge convertible notes 45:31 Bigger narratives in mining  48:10 The future of bitcoin mining and data centers 52:55 What metrics aren’t worthwhile? 43:02 What does 2025 look like? Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operator

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Riot’s VP of Research, Pierre Rochard, joins Will and Colin to discuss a variety of topics. The fellas start by talking about what a second Trump presidency and Republican Congress means for Bitcoin miners, especially in light of the last administration and Congress’ hostility toward all things Bitcoin. He also weighs the merits of a national Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, as well as one in Texas, and the pod closes on discussion of Riot’s $594.4 million convertible note and the miner’s expansion outside of Texas.  Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:09 Pierre's bio 15:13 Elizabeth Warren 17:03 Expecting positive regulation? 20:36 Texas mining bills 27:32 AI power demand on Texas grid 31:54 Strategic Bitcoin Reserve 33:42 National SBR? 34:45 Riot convertible note 40:24 Why not invest in infrastructure? 42:43 Why debt financing now? 45:16 Convertible debt niche 51:41 New Kentucky mining site 45:31 Bigger narratives in mining  48:10 The future of bitcoin mining and data centers 52:55