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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 Start02:31 Difficulty update04:51 Mining stocks08:04 Riot & Bitfarms16:30 Core Scientific rejects Coreweave22:00 Desiweminer (new AISC)27:21 Cleanspark vs White HouseSatoshi 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.-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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frederik Vyncke, a Belgian and Swedish citizen with a procurement background at Prosperity Digital, and Sven Hildebrandt, a finance expert focused on infrastructure, discuss Europe's Bitcoin mining landscape. They delve into the implications of the new MiCA regulation on miners, the push for data transparency, and the challenges miners face amidst regulatory scrutiny. The duo highlights the need for collaboration within the industry to advocate for its role in energy dynamics and to navigate the evolving regulatory environment effectively.

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 Start03:02 Shannon intro06:45 Green field vs rack ready sites08:23 US mining vs global10:05 Self taught11:04 Compass mining move12:30 Compass business update14:58 Why has hosting survived?17:13 The Accelerated program18:04 How does Accelerated work?20:18 Facility sizes22:04 10 megawatts or bust25:14 Cost per megawatt?25:42 Transformers are abundant now, right? Right?27:30 Halving bankruptcies?28:50 S19 rig bear market30:38 ASIC sales32:24 Repair market35:31 Why are manufacturers training technicians36:56 Predictions38:33 $400k per megawattPublished 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.Follow the show by going to one of these links!Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7CGboRclb7QaNOhLGgpuMgApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gwart-show-bitcoin-tech-culture/id1725892826YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55oAYu4Hc5A&tRSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/thegwartshowWebsite: https://blockspace.media/podcast/laser-eyes-stay-on-with-allen-farrington/Follow our guest on Twitter: @allenf32Follow our host: @gwartygwart👋The Gwart Show is proudly presented by Ellipsis Labs! Ellipsis Labs is building foundational products in DeFi. Their first product @PhoenixTrade is the leading orderbook DEX on Solana. The team is growing—visit ellipsislabs.xyz for engineering opportunities.Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chief Research Officer at Bitcoin miner Griid, Mike Hamilton is an experienced & well-known Bitcoin miner. But even more impressive might be his feat snagging of the second Runes ticker once the moment the protocol launched last April. Mike talks about how his experience with Bitcoin and tinkerer mentality let him beat all the other teams competing for the top Runes spots. Mike also discusses Bitcoin mining, the role miners may play going forwards, and his personal project “Mutable Trees.”Follow along on your favorite podcast player of choice by clicking here.Chapters:00:00:00 Start00:02:55 Mike intro00:08:12 What is etching & hard coding?00:09:59 Acquiring the Runes ticker00:15:01 Building Runes tools00:19:24 Airdropping00:23:54 Miners learning Runes00:26:38 Managing UTXOs00:32:17 Including Runes in business model00:34:26 Block templates00:38:43 Miners vs Maxi00:40:16 Fix the filters?00:42:35 Mutable Trees00:48:34 OP_CAT00:52:07 Miners & soft forksPublished 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! On today’s news roundup, we discuss Bitcoin mining stocks, Venezuela banning Bitcoin mining, the FIT21 bill passing the US House of Representatives, MetaMask possibly adding Bitcoin, the Rabbit AI founder’s murky Bitcoin past and more!Enjoying the show? Subscribe to the RSS feed for the podcast here.Timestamps:00:00 Start02:29 Difficulty update05:02 FIT21 bill12:07 Venezuela illegal mining16:44 Metamask + Bitcoin26:28 Rabbit AI👉 Check out our NEW referral network!👉 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! On today’s show, we’re joined by Storm Rund of the Oklahoma Bitcoin Association to discuss the groundbreaking Bitcoin legislation passed in the state of Oklahoma! In this show, Storm gives an overview of Bitcoin mining in OK (nearly over 1 gigawatt in size!), the legislative process, what the law does for Bitcoiners and what future bills Storm is working on with the OKA!Enjoying the show? Subscribe to the RSS feed for the podcast here.Timestamps:00:00 Start03:28 Storm intro06:12 Mining power usage in OK08:16 Legislative process & bill15:27 The OPA mission17:59 Upcoming bills19:28 Practical miner considerations22:58 Why is BTC legislation uncommon?27:29 Red Team vs Blue Team30:34 Story:FUD flyer33:03 What resonates w/ politicians38:20 Become a member👉 Check out our NEW referral network!👉 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Kimmell and Will Foxley of Blockspace Media jump into this week’s Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news including a network healthy check, mining stocks slowly bleeding out while Bitcoin ETFs continue to grow in strength, the Biden administration forcing the divestment of a Bitcoin mining farm from Chinese owners outside a nuclear power plant in Wyoming, and Bitfarms’ lawsuit with its former CEO!Enjoying the show? Subscribe to the RSS feed for the podcast here.Timestamps:00:00 Start03:34 Difficulty update08:24 Inefficient miners exit: JP Morgan10:18 ETF updates14:06 Choppy for public miners17:39 US blocks China miners22:35 Bitfarms exec shakeup👉 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taras Kulyk, CEO of Sunnyside Digital, one of the largest hardware distributors in North America, joins The Mining Pod to discuss the post-Bitcoin halving mining market, including ASIC prices, infrastructure, global shipping and M&A in the mining industry.Chapter Markers:00:00:00 Start00:02:18 Taras Kulyk intro00:04:45 ASIC market update00:07:53 ASIC buyer hesitation00:10:29 S21 vs T21 performance00:12:46 Where are older ASIC migrating to?00:14:39 Electrical infrastructure procurement00:15:57 Supply chain00:17:03 GPS jamming00:18:11 West vs East coast shipping00:19:32 Intl vs domestic shipments00:20:34 Procurement advice for new miners00:23:14 ASIC market maturing?00:24:49 Institutional ASIC buyers00:26:23 M&A for big miners00:30:27 Servicing miners00:31:01 Why miners aren't staffing up?00:32:54 Big miner predictions00:33:42 Wrap upPublished 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 👉 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week’s Mining Pod, Will and Matt dig into Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news including: difficulty dropping 5.5%, Arkansas putting restrictions around Bitcoin mining and large Bitcoin miners pivoting into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.00:00:00 Start00:02:07 Hashrate go down00:06:35 Texas grid spikes00:10:57 Canaan Avalon A1500:17:26 Arkansas hates noise & communists00:25:01 Miners pivot to AI infrastructurePublished 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 👉 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices