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The Mining Pod | Bitcoin Mining News Blockspace Media
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With over 200 shows, The Mining Pod is the industry’s best resource for the latest news and strategies in Bitcoin mining. Trusted by over 3,000 subscribers, including mining executives, operators and fund managers such as Marathon Digital, Cleanspark and BitCap.
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INTERVIEW: Flare Gas Bitcoin Mining In 2024
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 Future Of Mining Hardware
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. -
Riot’s Short Report, CoreWeave’s $1 Billion Offer and BitDeer’s ASIC Play
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. -
Europe’s Bitcoin Mining Rubicon
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 You Need To Know About Bitcoin Mining With Shanon Squires
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. -
Laser Eyes Stay On With Allen Farrington
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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Customer Reviews
CO2 emissions
Using stranded natural gas to generate electrical power for mining seems to be a good idea. And if that reduces greenhouse gas emissions, it’s even better. On that note, I can understand the reduction in methane emissions, but I struggle with the notion that CO2 emissions are reduced by methane combustion. Can you help educate us on this question?
Easy but Knowledgeable
Really enjoy listening to your team. I particularly enjoyed the one on OSL. Smart but a down to earth homeboy explaining the state of the (dis)union. Good stuff.
Best Crypto Podcast, even if you don’t mine!
This is my all time favorite crypto(blockchain) podcast. Through the lens of mining and this groups extended knowledge and experiences; countless golden nuggets and gems about how crypto works, markets, trading and the future of crypto are dropped for the listeners to find like easter eggs amongst tasteful jokes and commentary.
I highly recommend this podcast for anyone interested in learning more about crypto or for advanced initiates of the wild west that is crypto/blockchain. As they say DYOR and verify don't trust your information sources.
-@letgoletsgrow