H4shr8 Crypto Mining Podcast

Parker Merritt from Coin Metrics and Will Foxley discuss key metrics, trends, and insights in Bitcoin mining. Topics include mining pools, hash rate, transaction fees, hardware fingerprinting, energy consumption, miner efficiency, and the performance of publicly traded mining stocks. Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Start 00:01:45 Foreman ad 00:02:28 Sponsor message 00:02:52 Introductions 00:03:50 Bitcoin Halving update 00:05:12 Bitcoin Cash price surge 00:09:08 Bitcoin Cash mining revenue 00:11:23 Bitcoin Cash blockchain growth 00:13:41 Big blocks in Bitcoin 00:17:35 Mining pool distribution 00:20:40 Mining pool payout analysis 00:25:53 ASIC breakeven power costs 00:28:50 ASIC fingerprinting methodology 00:34:20 Bitcoin energy consumption 00:35:58 Mining & grid load balancing 00:38:50 Average network efficiency 00:41:52 CleanSpark's on-chain data 00:45:53 Miner market cap dominance 00:49:01 Miner stocks vs. Bitcoin in 2024 Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the