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Oct 14, 2023 • 27min

Lancium’s Patent Challenged, BitVM and Chinese Bitcoin Miners As ‘National Security’ Threat

Today we are joined by Tatum and Matt to talk about Lancium and Foreman’s on-going litigation around demand response, Inscribing WikiLeaks documents on Bitcoin, BitVMs potential for mining and the NY Times latest Bitcoin mining slander against Chinese Bitcoin miners. Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 11, 2023 • 53min

Bitmain’s Cash Crunch? And Iris Energy’s ‘Triple Crown’ W/ Wolfie Zhao & Anthony Power

Today we are joined by Wolfie Zhao of The Miner Mag and Anthony Power, an independent analyst, to discuss the Bitmain cash flow rumors and monthly mining production numbers, respectively. Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 7, 2023 • 34min

SBF Trial Update, Miners’ Respond to Drivechains and Antpool's Resurgence

Happy weekend! We’re talking about SBF’s big week in Federal court, an Op-Ed in Bitcoin Magazine over Drivechains from prominent Bitcoin miners and Antpool’s return to hashpool dominance. Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 4, 2023 • 50min

Braiins’ Control Board W/ Jan Capek

On this week’s show we talk with Jan Capek, co-founder and co-CEO of Braiins. We discuss their new control board, the pool’s state of growth, funding Braiins and the new Bitmain Antminer S21 coming to the mining market. Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 30, 2023 • 42min

Marathon’s Invalid Block, Bitmain’s S21, Rodarmor’s Runes and Tokens On Bitcoin

News is back! We talk about Marathon testing in prod, Bitmain and others new ASICs and Casey Rodarmor’s newest protocol (or blog turned protocol) Runes! Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 28, 2023 • 46min

From $7B Nvidia Buyout To Bitcoin Mining W/ Alon Webman

We speak with Chain Reaction co-founder Alon Webman about his new Israeli startup building Bitcoin ASICs. We discuss his background at Mellanox Technologies, purchased by Nvidia for $7 billion in 2019, to forming Chain Reaction and taking on the incumbent players in Bitcoin mining. Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 22, 2023 • 36min

Auradine’s 4nm Bitcoin Miner w/ Barun Kar and Rajiv Khemani

Welcome back to the show! Today we are joined by Barun Kar and Rajiv Khemani of Auradine, a new Bitcoin miner manufacturer to talk about their new 4nm Bitcoin miner.  Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 20, 2023 • 48min

Mansplaining Bitcoin’s Difficulty Adjustment w/ Dylan LeClair

Welcome back to the show! Today we are joined by Dylan LeClair of BTC Inc. to talk about his viral tweet concerning Bitcoin’s ‘security budget,’ macro flows into Bitcoin, and how mining stocks are poised for a breakout (after a recession, Dylan says). Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 19, 2023 • 1min

We're back!

Welcome back to the show! A few things to announce: The show is now independent. If you'd like to reach me, email william@blockspace.media. Second, we now have sponsors! Give our sponsors some love and reach out if you are interested in sponsoring! Lastly, we are giving away free hashrate to celebrate the another season of the podcast. Subscribe to our email list to be entered! https://theminingpod.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jul 22, 2023 • 32min

Mining in Kazakhstan | Alen Makhmetov | The Mining Pod

Today we are joined by Alen Makhmetov a miner in Kazakhstan to talk about the realities of operating in that country. Alen Makhmetov: https://twitter.com/alenmakhmetov Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley SPONSOR MinerMag is a research and data portal focusing on institutional bitcoin miners, consolidating company-level and network-wise data to produce coherent research articles on the state of bitcoin mining. https://theminermag.com TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Start 00:48 Alen profile 02:49 Mining in Russia 03:56 Mining is Kazakhstan 05:05 New regulation 07:13 Energy landscape 08:33 On-grid mining ops 09:35 China ban effect 11:47 Grid outages 15:09 4 points of new laws 17:16 National mining pool 20:34 Russia war 22:16 Importing ASICs 23:41 Russia energy cost 25:15 Crypto payments in ops 26:03 Future of mining in K and R 27:44 Large miners in K 28:25 Will R increase mining 29:14 The halving MINE Start mining your own bitcoins with Compass. https://bit.ly/3CehBf1 WATCH https://youtube.com/c/CompassMining?sub_confirmation=1 LISTEN Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/3fNfrdi Spotify https://spoti.fi/3tSf9G1 Amazon https://amzn.to/3557cqg Anchor https://bit.ly/3rmb7UF Fountain https://bit.ly/3NeNTec RSS https://bit.ly/3chpULV  LEARN Every week, Compass sends a memo to over 18,000 professional miners and investors with the most important news and data in cryptocurrency mining. Get the free newsletter in your inbox too: https://bit.ly/3vOGzxD FOLLOW Twitter: https://twitter.com/compass_mining LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/compassmining Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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