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The Mining Pod | Bitcoin Mining News Podcast

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.

  1. Bit Digital’s AI/HPC Strategy With Sam Tabar | Bitcoin Stock Show

    9 HR. AGO

    Bit Digital’s AI/HPC Strategy With Sam Tabar | Bitcoin Stock Show

    Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Sam Tabar, CEO of NASDAQ-listed Bit Digital, joins us today to talk about Bit Digital’s post-Halving mining strategy and (more importantly) what the company is doing to scale its AI business line. Bit Digital earned $12.5 million with its HPC services in Q2-2024, the most of any AI-focused public bitcoin miner. During the show, Tabar discusses how they executed to reach this milestone, their aspirations to book $700 million in AI revenue over the next five years, and more – including a few choice words regarding miners who plan to retrofit existing bitcoin miners for AI/HPC jobs. Note, this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not financial advice. Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media! Timestamps: 00:00 Waiting room 02:02 Introduction 03:00 Biggest changes to bitcoin mining since Q1 2020 7:10 Why Bit Digital is committed to asset-light bitcoin mining 15:00 Four models for bootstrapping AI/HPC load 20:20 HPC compute pricing structures 23:00 Bit Digital sale-leaseback financing for HPC GPUs 25:20 $700m Boosteroid agreement details 29:20 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. 👉 Show links: https://hashrateindex.com/blog/tokenizing-hashrate-blockstream-mining-note-2-bmn2/ Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset.   "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset.

    30 min

  2. 2 DAYS AGO

    Blockstream’s ASIC Mining Note With Adam Back

    Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today we are joined by Adam Back, cryptographer and CEO of Blockstream. Well known for its sidechain software Liquid, among other projects, Blockstream is actually a large private Bitcoin miner. In today’s show, we go through Blockstream mining with Back, including its profile as a miner (energy, locations, fleet). Then we dive into the BMN2, a new financial instrument to help people mine Bitcoin without ever touching a Bitcoin miner! Note, this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not financial advice. Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media! Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:11 Blockstream's mining background 08:46 Mining Note details 16:53 Secondary markets & Mining Notes 19:49 Typical investor profile 28:39 Why not self mine? 32:07 Where does Blockstream profit? 36:39 Production costs & cycle timing 42:05 Upgrading ASICs or not? 45:29 Lessons learned, changes made 50:31 Post Interview Discussion 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. 👉 Show links:  https://hashrateindex.com/blog/tokenizing-hashrate-blockstream-mining-note-2-bmn2/ Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset.

    1h 1m

  3. 6 DAYS AGO

    Galaxy’s $30m Offer to Rhodium, Bitmain’s ASIC Surplus, Bitcoin Mining (in Space!), and…Tokenized Nicotine?

    Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Rhodium is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and they’re going to need cash to get through the restructuring. So in comes Galaxy Digital, which is offering a $30m (or 500 BTC!) loan, in a move that could be a savvy attempt to acquire Rhodium assets. Turning to the ASIC market, bitcoin miner prices are down – a lot – and Bitmain could have a hand in the sluggish demand given how quickly it is releasing new versions of the S21. For a bit of lighthearted news, the guys get cosmic pontificating on interstellar bitcoin mining, while also taking a less lighthearted look at drooping crypto market sentiment. And to close the show, they roast – and we wish we were joking here – a tokenized vaping product(because who doesn’t want to get paid to contract popcorn lung?). Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:24 Difficulty update 05:32 Galaxy offers $30M to Rhodium 12:18 Too many ASICs! 22:04 Mining in spaceeee?! 28:10 Sentiment is bearishh :( 34:13 Cry Corner: Web3 Vaping…? 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 hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset.

    39 min
  4. Making Sense of AI and HPC Markets with Tom Masiero | Bitcoin Stock Show

    SEP 5

    Making Sense of AI and HPC Markets with Tom Masiero | Bitcoin Stock Show

    Before 2023, most folks probably associated AI with the far-off dystopias of The Terminator, The Matrix, or other depictions in pop culture. Now, AI is permeating every corner of our culture and economy as applications like Chat-GPT have taken a place alongside Google as the habitual tools of the internet’s citizenry. At the core of all of these applications – as with every facet of the Internet – is computing power, and bitcoin miners are betting big on becoming key producers of this compute. On this episode of the Bitcoin Stock Show, Tom Masiero of Cathedra Bitcoin shares his vision for how bitcoin miners factor into the most consequential technological revolution since the Internet.   @FarmahTom Director @CathedraBitcoin $CBIT  CathedraBitcoin.com Timestamps: 00:00 Livestream waiting room 11:15 Show introduction  12:30 Tom introduction and background 14:30 Breakdown of different HPC datacenter strategies 20:50 Difference between datacenter tiers 22:25 Types of HPC services bitcoin miners provide 27:30 Are clusters of compute the same as concentrated compute? 29:40 What is a mullet miner anyway? 33:45 Differences between small and large datacenters 37:40 Breakdown of different HPC strategies from bitcoin miners 44:45 The role of bitcoin miners in the AI race 52:40 Bitcoin miners and AI/HPC are PB&J 54:50 Why is Nvidia so dominant? 1:03:56 Is the H100 the S17 of AI? 1:09:50 Three categories of bitcoin miners  Live streamed every Wednesday, The Bitcoin Stock Show is brought to you by The Mining Pod and features interviews and analysis related to the world of public Bitcoin companies. Subscribe to receive notifications when we stream and publish shows!  👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our hosts on Twitter, @wsfoxley and @AsILayHodling. - 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.

    1h 4m

  5. SEP 3

    The Bullish Case for Bitdeer with Brandon Bailey

    Welcome back to The Mining Pod! This week we are joined by Brandon Bailey (a.k.a. Bitcoin Beezy), a co-founder of Second Gate advisory and a former VP of mining at Galaxy Digital, to discuss his recent research note on Bitdeer. He argues that the public miner, which is sometimes overlooked for some combination of language barriers and the team’s geographic distance from North America, is massively undervalued. He digs into Bitdeer’s bitcoin mining business and its burgeoning ASIC miner manufacturing line to make the case that the company deserves a valuation comparable to Riot, Marathon, CleanSpark, and Core Scientific.  Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:11 Bitdeer Research Note 03:46 Bitdeer as public company underdog 08:12 2025 Projected Growth 12:42 market segments 14:59 Total Revenue 16:10 Self mining vs hosting 18:34 New ASICs 23:46 ASIC manufacturing at scale 30:13 Advantages of vertical integration 35:08 Bitdeer can shift market segments 37:03 AI & HPC 41:11 AI training profitability 45:34 3 AI Compute approaches 50:43 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. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our hosts on Twitter, @wsfoxley and @AsILayHdoling. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner!  "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset.

    54 min

  6. AUG 30

    Rhodium Files for Bankruptcy, Mining Farm Acquisition Season, Public Miner AI Updates, and Bitcoin’s Maddening Energy Debate

    Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Blockspace broke news this weekend that Texas-based bitcoin miner Rhodium is going bankrupt, and we follow up in today’s show about what we do and don’t know regarding the incipient restructuring. As Rhodium starts restructuring its debt, other bitcoin miners have been expanding, with mergers and acquisitions becoming the second hottest trend this summer in the mining sector. The hottest trend, though, is AI, and we’ve got the straight skinny on how public bitcoin miners are approaching the hyped-up sector. And in this week’s Cry Corner, the gang addresses yet more quibbling about Bitcoin’s energy use (when Solomon said that there’s nothing new under the sun, he was really talking about energy FUD…). Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:19 Difficulty report 03:27 Rhodium files for bankruptcy 08:28 Bitfarms acquires Stronghold 09:07 GDA expansion 09:28 Cipher Mining's new site 15:04 AI & HPC industry update report 22:09 Cry Corner 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 hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell - 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.

    33 min

  7. AUG 27

    Is Bitcoin Dirty? Reviewing The Bitcoin Mining’s Documentary With Alana Mediavilla

    Welcome back to the show! We’re sitting down with film maker and documentarian Alana Mediavilla to discuss her new film “Dirty Coin,”  which premiered on the Bitcoin Halving this year and will go to market in late 2024! In this sit-down interview at Bitcoin Nashville, we discuss film work in Bitcoin, various locations filmed and the stories behind them and how Bitcoin mining is the “hands and feet” of Bitcoin compared to the ‘Number Go Up’ strategy most people consider. If you enjoyed the show, keep an eye out for Dirty Coin at a theater near you and follow the social accounts at @DirtyCoinDoc and @AlanaMediavilla! Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:35 Starting Dirty Coin 04:01 Background 12:17 Funding 14:23 Screening 14:47 Bitcoin Film festival; 15:57 Reception of the film 16:42 Made for no-coiners 18:11 CLIP: Monetizing Waste 24:21 CLIP: Seneca Lake 29:26 CLIP: History of the Electrical Grid 36:18 The goal of the movie 42:59 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. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell 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.

    45 min

  8. AUG 23

    Babylon Pumps Fees, Bitfarms Merges with Stronghold, Public Miner Q2 Numbers, and the IMF’s (not so Modest) Tax Proposal

    Welcome back to The Mining Pod! On Thursday, Bitcoin transaction fees soared to their highest levels since April, but it has nothing to do with runes or inscriptions. This go around, it was all thanks to the launch of Babylon Chain, a new off-chain BTC staking platform.  We also tackle Bitfarms’ merger with Stronghold and what it could mean (or not mean) for Riot’s ongoing attempt at a hostile share takeover of Bitfarms. Finally, we close on the latest Q2 figures and operational updates from public bitcoin miners, and Colin rants about why the IMF needs to take their bitcoin miner tax proposal and shove it...someplace where it won’t see the light of day.  Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:33 Difficulty report 04:45 ASIC prices 12:13 Babylon staking 15:51 Bitfarms Expands with $175M Stronghold Merger 16:47 Riot vs Bitfarms Poison Pill 25:30 Public Miner Reports 32:19 IMF Idea to Tax Bitcoin Miners 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 hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell 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.

    37 min
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