Worst Deal: Riot vs BitFarms Bid

For the final Mining Pod of 2025, we inaugurate The Hashies, Blockspace’s annual award show.

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Charlie and Colin proudly inaugurate The Hashies, Blockspace’s annual award show for the best and worst in Bitcoin for that year. The winners of this year’s Hashies, in order of appearance, are as follows:

• Most Ascendant BTC Mining CEO: Daniel Roberts

• Most Ascendant Crypto CEO: Shayne Coplan

• Best Deal of the Year: CRWV<>CORZ (because of – not despite – its falling though)

• Worst Deal of the Year: RIOT<>BITF takeover bid

• Best Investor Cult: IREN 

• Worst Investor Cult: MARA

• Biggest Crashout: Luke Dashjr

• Most REKT Crypto Play: Memecoins

• Most REKT Equity Play: BTC Treasury Companies / DATs

• Best Prediction: Valentine Rousseau’s 2025 Hashrate Projection 

• Worst Prediction: Every gigabull BTC price target

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Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:58 Most Ascendent CEO Bitcoin Mining

05:14 Most Ascendent CEO Crypto

07:24 Best Deal of 2025

10:08 Worst Deal of 2025

12:39 Best Investor Cult

14:07 Worst Investor Cult

16:50 Biggest Crash Out

23:20 Most REKT Crypto

29:00 Most REKT Equity

31:27 Best Prediction

33:25 Worst Prediction

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