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Steve Barbour, owner of Bitcoin mining and oil and gas services company Upstream Data, joins the show to discuss who should get into Bitcoin mining, what problems Bitcoin mining solves and what he expects going into another Bitcoin bull market.Watch a video version of the show here.Chapter Markers:00:00:00 Start00:02:30 Introducing Steve Barbour00:04:12 Bitcoin mining & energy00:07:33 Upstream Data's origins00:14:13 Upstream Data's naming00:19:35 Canadian oil vs. Bitcoin00:24:35 Upstream Data's services00:32:54 Colorado oil & Bitcoin00:36:11 Bitcoin vs oil cycles00:41:45 Bitcoin & AI00:45:00 Water vs. air cooling00:49:05 Advice for new miners00:53:59 Mining contract tips00:57:19 When to start mining01:01:31 Steve on Bitcoin ordinalsPublished 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 our other shows and content by going to Blockspace.media today.👉 Join our Bitcoin Halving party in Denver, Colorado on April 20th! 👉 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the news roundup! Today we chat about potential delays to TSMCs chip production from the earthquake in Taiwan, Franklin Templeton on Ordinals and Poolin selling its 100 MW farm for a fair chunk of change.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! Chapter Markers:00:00:00 Start00:01:07 Intro00:04:21 The Big Empty Documentary00:05:40 Taiwan Earthquake Impact00:10:55 Bitcoin Ordinals Corner00:15:33 Mining Pool Centralization00:24:23 Stratum V2 Discussion00:29:35 Poolin Sells Texas Assets00:35:18 Sauna Miner Test: S21 vs M6000:38:08 Outro👉 Check out our other shows and content by going to Blockspace.media today.👉 Join our Bitcoin Halving party in Denver, Colorado on April 20th! 👉 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 Williams of Luxor Tech joins the podcast to discuss hashrate futures, a new trading product that allows miners to forecast and act on the future price of hashrate. We discuss the product, similar Bitcoin futures products on the CME and how mining pool games with Ordinals could alter the equation.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! Timestamps:00:00:00 Start00:02:52 Matt Williams Intro00:04:11 Matt's Background00:09:50 English Major & Skiing00:12:37 CME & Bitcoin Futures00:19:58 Luxor Hashrate Futures00:28:06 Luxor's Product Suite00:32:37 CME Bitcoin Futures00:36:14 Futures Explained00:41:34 Changing Pool Models00:44:30 Transaction Fee Hedging00:48:55 Volatility & Derivatives00:50:54 Futures & OptionsCheck out our other shows and content by going to https://blockspace.media/ today.Join our halving party in Denver, Colorado on April 20th! https://www.meetup.com/denver-bitdevs/events/299059050/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

Alan Schroeder of Synota joins The Mining Pod to go through the ins-and-outs of the energy credit system and how the Lightning Network can make it more efficient through real time settlement for energy usage. Join our Bitcoin Halving Party! https://www.meetup.com/denver-bitdevs/Join our newsletter: https://blockspace.media/Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.mediaThanks to Foreman Mining for sponsoring the show. Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining.https://foreman.mn/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More transactions? More users? More fees? Zero Knowledge-based Rollups might be the holy grail of scaling solutions Bitcoiners are looking for. We sit down with Orkun Kılıç of Chainway Labs to discuss the latest in ZKRs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlie, Matt and Will join the news roundup to talk this week’s Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news, including public miners offering large ATMs, Bitcoin MEV from Ordinals and ViaBTC’s stale block problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bitcoin hit another all time high last week, but Bitcoin mining stocks keep lagging. We’re joined by Brandon Bailey, a Bitcoin mining analyst previously with Galaxy Digital Holdings, to break down the price performance. Questions or want to sponsor? ⁠william@blockspace.media⁠Thanks to Foreman Mining for sponsoring the show. Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining.https://foreman.mn/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should Bitcoin miners think about AI? Is it too late to get in on the game? How should Bitcoin miner’s construct JV deals or other structures? We are joined by John Belizaire of Soluna Digital Holdings to dig into this and more.Join our Bitcoin Halving Party! https://www.meetup.com/denver-bitdevs/Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cathedra Bitcoin and Kungsleden have merged, creating a new mining entity with both self-mining and hosting operations as revenue drivers. We are joined by Drew Armstrong (President Cathedra), Tom Masiero (Founder Kungsleden, Standard Bitcoin) and Marty Bent (Ten31, Cathedra) to discuss the merger of the two companies. Join our Bitcoin Halving Party! https://www.meetup.com/denver-bitdevs/ Join our newsletter! https://blockspace.media/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We recorded at ETHDenver on the next generation of crypto mining ASICs: Zero Knowledge (ZK) miners. Michael Gao of Fabric Crypto and Nazar Khan of TeraWulf join the show to discuss bleeding edge inquiry into ZK ASIC hardware, including how they could fit into a Bitcoin mining playbook. Please subscribe to our newsletter: https://blockspace.media/ Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices