The Mining Pod | Bitcoin Mining News

Nov 01 2024 321 ep. 41 mins 99
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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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Bitcoin Hashrate All-Time High, Greenidge Court Case, Unfounded Bitmain Sanctions Scare, and Faketoshi 2.0

Nov 01 2024 32 mins  
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Bitcoin’s hashrate is ripping, so Will and Colin sit down to discuss where all the new hashrate is coming from. They also touch on updates for Greenidge’s long-standing lawsuit against the State of New York and why the scuttlebutt that Bitmain might come under the scope of US sanctions is unfounded for now. Finally, in this week’s cry corner, w

Riot Q3 Earnings Call Recap With PennyEther

Oct 31 2024 49 mins  
Welcome back to the Bitcoin Stock Show! Yesterday, we livestreamed Riot's Q3 earnings call, so for today's show, we unpack the earnings call with a special guest, PennyEther! PennyEther is a bitcoin mining stock analyst who shares his research and insights on X. This podcast is a truncated version of the livestream, where we cut the earnings call bit and dive straight into our post

Trump or Kamala? Bitcoin Mining’s 2024 Presidential Stakes

Oct 29 2024 41 mins  
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today we are joined by Kyle Schneps, VP of Public Policy at Bitcoin mining pool Foundry, joins us to discuss…well the election! Why did Bitcoin miners go so hard for Trump and will there be repercussions? Why did Foundry sit in between and not endorse either candidate? And what actually matters more in 2024, States or the Federal level? 👉 Get t

Russia’s Bitcoin Economy, Coinmint’s Expansion, and Core Scientific’s $8.7B AI Deal

Oct 25 2024 42 mins  
Welcome back to the Mining Pod! Will, Colin, and Matt are back with another news roundup. It’s election season, so naturally, headlines about Russia have weaseled their way into the news cycle – only this time, the news is about how Russia allegedly wants to encourage trade in bitcoin to bypass sanctions. The gang also talks about Coinmint’s partnership with NYDIG to expand i

Bitfarms' Expansion Strategy w/ Ben Gagnon and Alex Brammer

Oct 23 2024 48 mins  
Welcome back to the Mining Pod! For this week’s stock show, Colin interviews Bitfarms CEO Ben Gagnon and Senior Vice President of Global Mining Operations Alex Brammer. Bitfarms made a name for itself as one of the first publicly traded bitcoin miners to expand into South America, first with its operations in Argentina and then in Paraguay. Now, Bitfarms is planning to house 50%

Ethiopia’s Bitcoin Mining Boom

Oct 22 2024 39 mins  
Welcome back to the Mining Pod! We’re joined by Ethan Vera of Luxor Tech and Kal Kassa of BitcoinBrr to discuss mining Bitcoin in Ethiopia! Earlier this summer we heard reports of mining picking up in the Eastern side of Africa, particularly with well connected Chinese Bitcoin miners sourcing hydro-powered contracts. Ethan recently visited so we brought him on with Kal to discuss

US Miners Grow Market Share, MARA’s $200m BTC Loan, and Cipher’s 1.5 GW Buy

Oct 18 2024 39 mins  
Welcome back to the Mining Pod! For this week’s news roundup, Colin and Matt discuss how US public bitcoin miners are growing their share of Bitcoin's hashrate. Plus, Marathon is leveraging its trove of 26,000+ BTC and Cipher is going bigly with three pending mining site acquisitions for a total of 1.5 GW of capacity, some of which the miner may allocate toward AI/HPC compute. Th

Bitdeer’s SEALMINER ASIC and AI/HPC Business With Jeff LaBerge

Oct 16 2024 42 mins  
Welcome back to the Mining Pod! For this week’s Bitcoin Stock Show, we sit down with Jeff LaBerge, the head of capital markets and strategic investments at Bitdeer. Bursting onto the scene last year with its IPO, Bitdeer quickly became one of the public bitcoin miners to watch, and now, the company is designing its own ASIC miner, the SEALMINER. How did Bitdeer secure TSMC chip a

Home Bitcoin Mining For The Masses With Bitaxe

Oct 15 2024 43 mins  
Welcome back to the Mining Pod! Today we’re joined by Skot, the creator of the open source Bitcoin mining project Bitaxe! Launched a bit over a year ago, Bitaxe is a simple way to bring mining back to the household by taking a chip from state of the art Bitcoin miners like the Bitmain S21 and gluing it with a bunch of other parts into a mini-home miner! We talk with Skot about th

Difficulty Update, IREN Lawsuit, Antminer S21, Tokenized Whiskey and Satoshi Nakamoto

Oct 11 2024 37 mins  
Welcome back to the Mining Pod! We’re going through Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news including a difficulty update after Florida hurricanes, IREN’s lawsuit about HPC, Bitmain releasing another version of the S21 with less efficiency (why?), Marathon’s Anduro platform getting in on tokenized whiskey, Marathon also getting sued for being too loud at its Granbury, Texas site and