Core Scientific shareholders voted no on CoreWeave’s $9 billion acquisition proposal, and CleanSpark acquired a Texas site for a 285 MW AI site.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s roundup, we break down Core Scientific shareholders voting NO on the $9B CoreWeave acquisition, CleanSpark's plans for a new 285 megawatt Texas site for AI workloads, and TeraWulf's record 25-year contract with FluidStack. Plus, Ethan Vera from Luxor joins to analyze the ASIC market and where hash rate growth is really coming from. And for this week’s cry corner, why the filter soft fork is doomed to fail.
Notes:
• Core Scientific shareholders rejected CoreWeave deal
• Hashprice dropped to $43.73 per petahash daily
• Difficulty adjusted upward 6.3%
• Hashrate reached 1.1 zettahash on 7-day average
• CleanSpark acquired Texas site with 300 MW pipeline
• TeraWulf signed 25-year deal with FluidStack
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:09 Difficulty Report by Luxor
07:47 ASIC market update
12:01 CORZ deal fails
22:14 CleanSpark data center acquisition
27:51 WULF $9.5B FS extension
33:36 Cry Corner: Fork time?
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