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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! 

👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show.

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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.

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! 

👉 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 with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset. Distributed by CoinDesk with Senior Producer Michele Musso and Executive Producer Jared Schwartz.

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! 

👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show.

👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty!

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.

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 edge?
44:20 AI and Bitcoin Mining

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.

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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.

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! 

👉 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.

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.