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Industry expert Ian Descôteaux from Pow.Re discusses evidence of pool consolidation, risks to Bitcoin, and potential solutions for decentralization. This podcast explores the growing centralization of Bitcoin mining pools, focusing on proxy pools and their potential impact on the network. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:48 Checksum's bio 03:34 Canada & South America hash rate 06:42 Mining pool centralization 09:14 Proxy pools 11:57 Proxy pool diagram 13:57 F2Pool use proxy? 15:14 F2Pool block template 16:09 Cobo yield & risk 19:31 Merkle tree evidence 25:28 UTXO accelerator 29:59 Selfish mining & 51% 33:35 Covenants 36:26 Antpool incentives 38:38 Block withholding attacks 40:17 How to fix? 43:32 Are new pools likely? 45:52 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! 

Portland Hodl, a Bitcoin developer with Marathon Digital, discusses Slipstream, Bitcoin Core, soft forks, and the future of Bitcoin. He shares insights on mining innovations, blockchain reorganizations, and the importance of Bitcoin education. The conversation covers technical aspects and broader implications for Bitcoin's development and adoption. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:54 Thought on Bitcoin 06:24 Slipstream 12:42 Consensus vs standardness 19:35 Slipstream technical challenges 26:35 Slipstream profitability 29:00 Why don't more pools MEV? 34:46 Not enough developers 41:17 The infamous/famous M block 49:12 Bitcoin has always been a data storage network 52:19 Re-org of Testnet4 59:39 Testnet3 hijinks 1:06:48 Thoughts on Bitcoin Core 1:13:15 Client diversity 1:17:58 Softforks 1:24:48 Consequences of softforks 1:34:42 Orange-pilling people 1:37:20 What Bitcoiners DON'T understand Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape

Will and Charlie jump on the microphone to discuss Bitmain’s newest ASICs, the S21 XP and S21 XP Hydro miners! We compare against other ASICs like Canaan, Bitdeer and MicroBT while taking a larger view about how the ASIC market is going to transform over the next few years. We cover topics like AI infrastructure, commoditization of chips and how to compete in a centralized ASIC market! Timestamps: 00:00 Start 04:11 S21 Hydro 06:53 Rackspace & rigs swapping 13:46 AntSpaces 15:56 Bitmain competitors 22:54 Rig "commoditization" 26:18 New Rig makers 42:46 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! 

Ben Weng and Payne Cong of Foundation Logic, the team behind the new ElphaPex Dogecoin/Litcoin miner, join The Mining Pod to discuss their new ASIC mining startup, competing with industry giants, and the future of script mining. Learn about hardware startups, profitability comparisons, and the potential for diversifying mining revenue. Chapters: 00:00 Start 03:20 Ben Weng background 04:29 Payne Cong background 06:32 Litecoin+Dogecoin ASIC 09:40 Why these coins? 14:50 Is Litecoin the main revenue? 18:39 Profitability 21:10 Other revenue sources 24:40 Calculators 25:50 Hardware form factor 28:15 Repairs 33:41 Chips & production 35:56 What foundry 36:50 Chip allocations from Samsung 38:40 Bitmain competition 42:46 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! 

Ryan Nuckolls, a 10th-generation Texan and Bitcoin veteran, discusses the intersection of energy and Bitcoin mining in Texas. He shares insights on optimizing mining infrastructure, the benefits of Bitcoin for the Texas grid, and the industry's future. Nuckolls believes Texas is poised for significant growth in Bitcoin mining. Chapters: 03:12 Ryan's background 04:38 Infrastructure as a service 08:24 Generation vs demand 11:03 When Bitcoin came to ERCOT 13:47 Example deal 16:26 Due diligence beforehand 17:13 Capital intensive ops 19:25 Demand on ERCOT 21:43 Trading energy on ERCOT 25:35 What is energy trading? 30:06 The future of ERCOT & Bitcoin 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! 

Ever wonder if this flare gas thing with Bitcoin mining is real? Can it actually scale to solve real world climate issues? And how would someone go about making a project like that in the first place? Justin Ballard, General Counsel at Akon Energy & Founding Partner at Firm 21, shares insights on Bitcoin mining's legal landscape, energy deals, flare gas mining, and the industry's future. He discusses the challenges and opportunities in navigating this space, drawing parallels to the oil and gas industry. Chapter Markers: 00:00 Start 04:37 Justin's background 08:37 Mining legal structures 15:41 Energy deal examples 18:55 Flare gas reality check 23:30 Legal gas mining deals 30:00 Learnings big/small operations 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! 

The hardware game is becoming more competitive, with new entrants like Jack Dorsey’s Block, Marathon Digital-backed Auradine and more. And then there’s this whole AI thing which mining CEOs and others keep talking about!  To make it straight, we brought on ePIC Blockchain co-founder Earl Mai to discuss ePIC’s hardware product line, the difficulties of getting a hardware startup off the ground, what its like to compete against Bitmain and how mining–and AI–could converge together over the next few years! Chapter Markers: 00:00 Start 03:07 Earl's background 04:51 ePIC's products 05:45 Earl's early mining days 09:50 Moving from alts to bitcoin 12:46 ASIC design process 15:36 Why Bitmain dominates? 20:15 Bitmian chip design 21:51 Don't fight Bitmain 24:41 Components 26:18 Shoebox form factor 27:39 How not to get scammed 29:37 Next gen ASICS 30:34 Intel update 31:20 Competition in the space 33:14 Is Bitmain slowing template propagation? 39:06 Competitive edge on open network 40:43 Where's the new competitive edg

Will and Charlie dig into this week’s Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news, including the short report leveled at Riot Platforms, CoreWeave’s declined bid to purchase Core Scientific, BitDeer buying a fabless ASIC manufacturer for $140 million in shares and lastly, Cleanspark’s involvement in the Cheyenne, Wyoming Bitcoin mining slapped with an executive order by the Biden administration. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:31 Difficulty update 04:51 Mining stocks 08:04 Riot & Bitfarms 16:30 Core Scientific rejects Coreweave 22:00 Desiweminer (new AISC) 27:21 Cleanspark vs White House Satoshi Action Fund's Poker Tournament at Mining Disrupt! 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! 

Today we’re joined by Sven Hildebrandt and Frederik Vyncke of the European Bitcoin Mining Association (EBEA) to discuss the growing regulatory threat to Bitcoin mining in Europe. Sven and Frederik detail the mining landscape, how the new MiCA regulation will affect mining, the EBEA’s push to collect mining data and how other high intensity energy industries compare to Bitcoin mining in Europe. Check out the EBEA at https://ebea.work/ Follow our guests on Twitter: @vyncke_frederik @SvenHildebrandt Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:32 Frederik Vyncke background 04:31 Sven Hildebrandt background 06:13 European Bitcoin Energy Association 11:13 Perception of mining in EU now? 17:34 MICA regulation & mining 20:12 Data required by MICA 21:28 What if no data? 22:09 Service providers on the hook not miners 23:01 This seems stupid... 24:30 Energy mix data 29:08 Complying with regulations as a miner 32:20 Wher

What’s happening in the Bitcoin mining market? Did the halving bring us into a new landscape? And how are miners surviving in such hostile revenue territory? We sit down with Shanon Squires, a long time Bitcoin miner and current Chief Mining Officer at Compass Mining. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:02 Shannon intro 06:45 Green field vs rack ready sites 08:23 US mining vs global 10:05 Self taught 11:04 Compass mining move 12:30 Compass business update 14:58 Why has hosting survived? 17:13 The Accelerated program 18:04 How does Accelerated work? 20:18 Facility sizes 22:04 10 megawatts or bust 25:14 Cost per megawatt? 25:42 Transformers are abundant now, right? Right? 27:30 Halving bankruptcies? 28:50 S19 rig bear market 30:38 ASIC sales 32:24 Repair market 35:31 Why are manufacturers training technicians 36:56 Predictions 38:33 $400k per megawatt 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

We're off at Consensus 2024 so we're airing one of our favorite shows from The Gwart Show, one of our other podcasts on the Blockspace Podcast Network. We'll be back next week with EXTRA Mining Pod shows, but enjoy this Bitcoin podcast in between! Allen Farrington, co-founder of Axiom, joins The Gwart Show to discuss scaling Bitcoin, the role of venture capital in Bitcoin’s ecosystem, his thoughts on DeFi, NFTs, and stablecoins, and the potential for Bitcoin to supplant fiat money. He also shares his insights on the ordinals debate and the future of Bitcoin infrastructure. Follow the show by going to one of these links! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7CGboRclb7QaNOhLGgpuMg Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gwart-show-bitcoin-tech-culture/id1725892826 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55oAYu4Hc5A&t RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/thegwartshow Website: https://blockspace.media/podcast/laser-eyes-stay-on-with-allen-farrington/ Follow our guest on Twitter: @allenf32 Follow our host

Chief Research Officer at Bitcoin miner Griid, Mike Hamilton is an experienced & well-known Bitcoin miner. But even more impressive might be his feat snagging of the second Runes ticker once the moment the protocol launched last April.  Mike talks about how his experience with Bitcoin and tinkerer mentality let him beat all the other teams competing for the top Runes spots. Mike also discusses Bitcoin mining, the role miners may play going forwards, and his personal project “Mutable Trees.” Follow along on your favorite podcast player of choice by clicking here. Chapters: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:55 Mike intro 00:08:12 What is etching & hard coding? 00:09:59 Acquiring the Runes ticker 00:15:01 Building Runes tools 00:19:24 Airdropping 00:23:54 Miners learning Runes 00:26:38 Managing UTXOs 00:32:17 Including Runes in business model 00:34:26 Block templates 00:38:43 Miners vs Maxi 00:40:16 Fix the filters? 00:42:35 Mutable Trees 00:48:34 OP_CAT 00:52:07 Miners & soft forks Published twice weekly, "The Mining

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! On today’s news roundup, we discuss Bitcoin mining stocks, Venezuela banning Bitcoin mining, the FIT21 bill passing the US House of Representatives, MetaMask possibly adding Bitcoin, the Rabbit AI founder’s murky Bitcoin past and more! Enjoying the show? Subscribe to the RSS feed for the podcast here. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:29 Difficulty update 05:02 FIT21 bill 12:07 Venezuela illegal mining 16:44 Metamask + Bitcoin 26:28 Rabbit AI

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! On today’s show, we’re joined by Storm Rund of the Oklahoma Bitcoin Association to discuss the groundbreaking Bitcoin legislation passed in the state of Oklahoma! In this show, Storm gives an overview of Bitcoin mining in OK (nearly over 1 gigawatt in size!), the legislative process, what the law does for Bitcoiners and what future bills Storm is working on with the OKA! Enjoying the show? Subscribe to the RSS feed for the podcast here. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:28 Storm intro 06:12 Mining power usage in OK 08:16 Legislative process & bill 15:27 The OPA mission 17:59 Upcoming bills 19:28 Practical miner considerations 22:58 Why is BTC legislation uncommon? 27:29 Red Team vs Blue Team 30:34 Story:FUD flyer 33:03 What resonates w/ politicians 38:20 Become a member

Matt Kimmell and Will Foxley of Blockspace Media jump into this week’s Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news including a network healthy check, mining stocks slowly bleeding out while Bitcoin ETFs continue to grow in strength, the Biden administration forcing the divestment of a Bitcoin mining farm from Chinese owners outside a nuclear power plant in Wyoming, and Bitfarms’ lawsuit with its former CEO! Enjoying the show? Subscribe to the RSS feed for the podcast here. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:34 Difficulty update 08:24 Inefficient miners exit: JP Morgan 10:18 ETF updates 14:06 Choppy for public miners 17:39 US blocks China miners 22:35 Bitfarms exec shakeup

Taras Kulyk, CEO of Sunnyside Digital, one of the largest hardware distributors in North America, joins The Mining Pod to discuss the post-Bitcoin halving mining market, including ASIC prices, infrastructure, global shipping and M&A in the mining industry. Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:18 Taras Kulyk intro 00:04:45 ASIC market update 00:07:53 ASIC buyer hesitation 00:10:29 S21 vs T21 performance 00:12:46 Where are older ASIC migrating to? 00:14:39 Electrical infrastructure procurement 00:15:57 Supply chain 00:17:03 GPS jamming 00:18:11 West vs East coast shipping 00:19:32 Intl vs domestic shipments 00:20:34 Procurement advice for new miners 00:23:14 ASIC market maturing? 00:24:49 Institutional ASIC buyers 00:26:23 M&A for big miners 00:30:27 Servicing miners 00:31:01 Why miners aren't staffing up? 00:32:54 Big miner predictions 00:33:42 Wrap up Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notificatio

In this week’s Mining Pod, Will and Matt dig into Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news including: difficulty dropping 5.5%, Arkansas putting restrictions around Bitcoin mining and large Bitcoin miners pivoting into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. 00:00:00 Start 00:02:07 Hashrate go down 00:06:35 Texas grid spikes 00:10:57 Canaan Avalon A15 00:17:26 Arkansas hates noise & communists 00:25:01 Miners pivot to AI infrastructure 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 

Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:35 Open Timestamps does election fraud 00:07:19 Timestamp the internet? 00:08:19 Peter Todd Intro 00:10:45 Antpool block template use 00:16:33 Does Stratum V2 solve pool control? 00:17:18 Ocean Pool 00:18:19 Developers Incentivisation 00:20:19 Mining Testnet 00:21:30 Resetting Testnet 00:21:56 Ordinal Streisand Effect 00:24:16 OP_RETURN 00:24:58 1MB Runes incoming w/ Libra Relay? 00:28:23 MEV is dangerous 00:30:35 RBF transactions 00:31:20 MEV types 00:32:53 Libra Relay vs Core filters 00:34:50 Libra Relay is a political project 00:36:10 Suggestions for miners 00:37:36 OP_CAT 00:42:40 OP Code prediction

In this week’s Mining Pod, Charlie, Matt, Will and special guest Walt Smith of Cyber Fund discuss the talks from Bitcoin developer conference Bitcoin ++ in Austin, Texas, with special focus on new soft forks for Bitcoin that could bring more programmability on-chain. 00:00 Start 01:37 What is Bitcoin ++? 05:09 Specter of MEV on Bitcoin 11:49 Defining MEV 17:23 Slipstream & Data Blobs 21:08 Protocol Ossification 23:56 OP_CAT

In this week’s Mining Pod, we talk with the Galaxy Digital Bitcoin mining team about their Helios Bitcoin mine in Spur, Texas, population 900! We discuss the latest film, The Big Empty, how it was received by the community and what it means to have a Bitcoin miner join rural American towns like Spur. Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:01 Guest Intros 00:02:36 Helios Mine Scale 00:03:21 Guest Bios 00:07:59 Helios Facility Size 00:11:26 Immersion Mining Process 00:13:21 Living in Dickens County 00:20:13 Suspicion of New Companies 00:23:42 Bitcoin Adoption in Towns 00:27:15 Community Interactions 00:29:32 Money & State Separation 00:33:41 Communication Barriers 00:35:06 The Legendary Pool 00:38:50 Wrapping Up