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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

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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! 

👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show.

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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!


"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset.

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 Where is hashrate in the EU?
35:39 South East EU mining
37:36 AI power demand
42:48 Regulatory wishlist
45:21 Public data vs proprietary data
46:04 Convincing miners to comply
49:48 Wrapping up

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! 

👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show.

👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty!

Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.

"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset.

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 publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 

👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show.

👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty!

👉 Watch our livestream on Samourai Wallet!

Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.

Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!

"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset.

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.

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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 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! 

👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show.

👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty!

👉 Watch our livestream on Samourai Wallet!

Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.

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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!


"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset.

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!

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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

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👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show.

👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty!


Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.

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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!

"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset.