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Ever wonder if this flare gas thing with Bitcoin mining is real? Can it actually scale to solve real world climate issues? And how would someone go about making a project like that in the first place?
Justin Ballard, General Counsel at Akon Energy & Founding Partner at Firm 21, shares insights on Bitcoin mining's legal landscape, energy deals, flare gas mining, and the industry's future. He discusses the challenges and opportunities in navigating this space, drawing parallels to the oil and gas industry.
Chapter Markers:
00:00 Start
04:37 Justin's background
08:37 Mining legal structures
15:41 Energy deal examples
18:55 Flare gas reality check
23:30 Legal gas mining deals
30:00 Learnings big/small operations
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The hardware game is becoming more competitive, with new entrants like Jack Dorsey’s Block, Marathon Digital-backed Auradine and more. And then there’s this whole AI thing which mining CEOs and others keep talking about!
To make it straight, we brought on ePIC Blockchain co-founder Earl Mai to discuss ePIC’s hardware product line, the difficulties of getting a hardware startup off the ground, what its like to compete against Bitmain and how mining–and AI–could converge together over the next few years!
Chapter Markers:
00:00 Start
03:07 Earl's background
04:51 ePIC's products
05:45 Earl's early mining days
09:50 Moving from alts to bitcoin
12:46 ASIC design process
15:36 Why Bitmain dominates?
20:15 Bitmian chip design
21:51 Don't fight Bitmain
24:41 Components
26:18 Shoebox form factor
27:39 How not to get scammed
29:37 Next gen ASICS
30:34 Intel update
31:20 Competition in the space
33:14 Is Bitmain slowing template propagation?
39:06 Competitive edge on open network
40:43 Where's the new competitive edge?
44:20 AI and Bitcoin Mining
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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 Start
02:31 Difficulty update
04:51 Mining stocks
08:04 Riot & Bitfarms
16:30 Core Scientific rejects Coreweave
22:00 Desiweminer (new AISC)
27:21 Cleanspark vs White House
Satoshi Action Fund's Poker Tournament at Mining Disrupt!
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Today we’re joined by Sven Hildebrandt and Frederik Vyncke of the European Bitcoin Mining Association (EBEA) to discuss the growing regulatory threat to Bitcoin mining in Europe. Sven and Frederik detail the mining landscape, how the new MiCA regulation will affect mining, the EBEA’s push to collect mining data and how other high intensity energy industries compare to Bitcoin mining in Europe.
Check out the EBEA at https://ebea.work/
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:32 Frederik Vyncke background
04:31 Sven Hildebrandt background
06:13 European Bitcoin Energy Association
11:13 Perception of mining in EU now?
17:34 MICA regulation & mining
20:12 Data required by MICA
21:28 What if no data?
22:09 Service providers on the hook not miners
23:01 This seems stupid...
24:30 Energy mix data
29:08 Complying with regulations as a miner
32:20 Where is hashrate in the EU?
35:39 South East EU mining
37:36 AI power demand
42:48 Regulatory wishlist
45:21 Public data vs proprietary data
46:04 Convincing miners to comply
49:48 Wrapping up
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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 Start
03:02 Shannon intro
06:45 Green field vs rack ready sites
08:23 US mining vs global
10:05 Self taught
11:04 Compass mining move
12:30 Compass business update
14:58 Why has hosting survived?
17:13 The Accelerated program
18:04 How does Accelerated work?
20:18 Facility sizes
22:04 10 megawatts or bust
25:14 Cost per megawatt?
25:42 Transformers are abundant now, right? Right?
27:30 Halving bankruptcies?
28:50 S19 rig bear market
30:38 ASIC sales
32:24 Repair market
35:31 Why are manufacturers training technicians
36:56 Predictions
38:33 $400k per megawatt
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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.
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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.”
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Start
00:02:55 Mike intro
00:08:12 What is etching & hard coding?
00:09:59 Acquiring the Runes ticker
00:15:01 Building Runes tools
00:19:24 Airdropping
00:23:54 Miners learning Runes
00:26:38 Managing UTXOs
00:32:17 Including Runes in business model
00:34:26 Block templates
00:38:43 Miners vs Maxi
00:40:16 Fix the filters?
00:42:35 Mutable Trees
00:48:34 OP_CAT
00:52:07 Miners & soft forks
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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!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:29 Difficulty update
05:02 FIT21 bill
12:07 Venezuela illegal mining
16:44 Metamask + Bitcoin
26:28 Rabbit AI
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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!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:28 Storm intro
06:12 Mining power usage in OK
08:16 Legislative process & bill
15:27 The OPA mission
17:59 Upcoming bills
19:28 Practical miner considerations
22:58 Why is BTC legislation uncommon?
27:29 Red Team vs Blue Team
30:34 Story:FUD flyer
33:03 What resonates w/ politicians
38:20 Become a member
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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!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:34 Difficulty update
08:24 Inefficient miners exit: JP Morgan
10:18 ETF updates
14:06 Choppy for public miners
17:39 US blocks China miners
22:35 Bitfarms exec shakeup
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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 Start
00:02:18 Taras Kulyk intro
00:04:45 ASIC market update
00:07:53 ASIC buyer hesitation
00:10:29 S21 vs T21 performance
00:12:46 Where are older ASIC migrating to?
00:14:39 Electrical infrastructure procurement
00:15:57 Supply chain
00:17:03 GPS jamming
00:18:11 West vs East coast shipping
00:19:32 Intl vs domestic shipments
00:20:34 Procurement advice for new miners
00:23:14 ASIC market maturing?
00:24:49 Institutional ASIC buyers
00:26:23 M&A for big miners
00:30:27 Servicing miners
00:31:01 Why miners aren't staffing up?
00:32:54 Big miner predictions
00:33:42 Wrap up
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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 Start
00:02:07 Hashrate go down
00:06:35 Texas grid spikes
00:10:57 Canaan Avalon A15
00:17:26 Arkansas hates noise & communists
00:25:01 Miners pivot to AI infrastructure
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Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 Start
00:02:35 Open Timestamps does election fraud
00:07:19 Timestamp the internet?
00:08:19 Peter Todd Intro
00:10:45 Antpool block template use
00:16:33 Does Stratum V2 solve pool control?
00:17:18 Ocean Pool
00:18:19 Developers Incentivisation
00:20:19 Mining Testnet
00:21:30 Resetting Testnet
00:21:56 Ordinal Streisand Effect
00:24:16 OP_RETURN
00:24:58 1MB Runes incoming w/ Libra Relay?
00:28:23 MEV is dangerous
00:30:35 RBF transactions
00:31:20 MEV types
00:32:53 Libra Relay vs Core filters
00:34:50 Libra Relay is a political project
00:36:10 Suggestions for miners
00:37:36 OP_CAT
00:42:40 OP Code prediction
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In this week’s Mining Pod, Charlie, Matt, Will and special guest Walt Smith of Cyber Fund discuss the talks from Bitcoin developer conference Bitcoin ++ in Austin, Texas, with special focus on new soft forks for Bitcoin that could bring more programmability on-chain.
00:00 Start
01:37 What is Bitcoin ++?
05:09 Specter of MEV on Bitcoin
11:49 Defining MEV
17:23 Slipstream & Data Blobs
21:08 Protocol Ossification
23:56 OP_CAT
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In this week’s Mining Pod, we talk with the Galaxy Digital Bitcoin mining team about their Helios Bitcoin mine in Spur, Texas, population 900! We discuss the latest film, The Big Empty, how it was received by the community and what it means to have a Bitcoin miner join rural American towns like Spur.
Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 Start
00:02:01 Guest Intros
00:02:36 Helios Mine Scale
00:03:21 Guest Bios
00:07:59 Helios Facility Size
00:11:26 Immersion Mining Process
00:13:21 Living in Dickens County
00:20:13 Suspicion of New Companies
00:23:42 Bitcoin Adoption in Towns
00:27:15 Community Interactions
00:29:32 Money & State Separation
00:33:41 Communication Barriers
00:35:06 The Legendary Pool
00:38:50 Wrapping Up
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We go through this week’s news in Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining, including ViaBTC’s 33.3 BTC auction reward, Jack Dorsey’s Block announcing its 3 nm chip plans for a Bitcoin ASIC, and a behind the scenes look at TSMCs Arizona chip fab!
00:00:00 Start
00:07:27 Post-Halving Difficulty
00:12:16 Via BTC's Epic Sat Sale
00:16:14 Block's 3nm Mining Chip
00:20:01 Challenges for New ASICS
00:24:28 Jack Dorsey's Support
00:27:28 TSMC's Arizona Fab Issues
00:32:26 Wrap-up
👉 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.
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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!
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Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation and Diverter, a pseudonymous Bitcoiner known for his non-KYC Bitcoin guides, joins The Mining Pod to discuss why Bitcoin mining matters for individual liberty and how Bitcoiners can take mining to the next level.
Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 Start
00:03:13 Diverter's Bitcoin Journey
00:06:12 Alex Gladstein's Bitcoin Story
00:10:22 Why Mining Matters
00:13:07 Value of Non-KYC Mining
00:20:27 Mining & Financial Sovereignty
00:24:27 Clean Spark Ad
00:24:47 Bitcoin Mining Bifurcation
00:28:45 Vitamin Ad
00:29:26 Mining: Suits vs. Home Miners
00:37:36 Regulatory Capture of Mining
00:51:50 Bitmain Ad
00:52:37 Compromising on Privacy
00:57:53 Inevitability of Bitcoin Adoption
01:03:17 Cypherpunk Ethos & Nuance
01:04:20 What if Bitcoin Succeeds?
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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!
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Matt, Will and Charlie dig into this week’s biggest news stories ahead of the Bitcoin halving, where Bitcoin’s rewards are dropped by 50% by the network! We go through Bitcoin data, Riot energizing Corsicana and Foundry playing halving block games!
Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 Start
00:02:15 Bitcoin Having Discussion
00:04:28 Sponsor: Clean Spark
00:06:06 Miner Mag Data Review
00:09:17 Miner Sell Pressure
00:11:18 Riot's 1 GW Mine
00:14:23 Sponsor: Foreman
00:15:25 Foundry's Rare Sat Auction
00:20:36 Sponsor: Bitmain
00:21:24 Testnet Reorgs & Hash Bender
00:31:39 Mining Innovations & Topics
00:33:42 Upcoming Shows & Events
00:35:36 Wrap-up
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!
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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!
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Parker Merritt from Coin Metrics and Will Foxley discuss key metrics, trends, and insights in Bitcoin mining. Topics include mining pools, hash rate, transaction fees, hardware fingerprinting, energy consumption, miner efficiency, and the performance of publicly traded mining stocks.
Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 Start
00:01:45 Foreman ad
00:02:28 Sponsor message
00:02:52 Introductions
00:03:50 Bitcoin Halving update
00:05:12 Bitcoin Cash price surge
00:09:08 Bitcoin Cash mining revenue
00:11:23 Bitcoin Cash blockchain growth
00:13:41 Big blocks in Bitcoin
00:17:35 Mining pool distribution
00:20:40 Mining pool payout analysis
00:25:53 ASIC breakeven power costs
00:28:50 ASIC fingerprinting methodology
00:34:20 Bitcoin energy consumption
00:35:58 Mining & grid load balancing
00:38:50 Average network efficiency
00:41:52 CleanSpark's on-chain data
00:45:53 Miner market cap dominance
00:49:01 Miner stocks vs. Bitcoin in 2024
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Matt, Charlie and Will discuss Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news, from Bitmain’s large US operations to Ordinals marketcap projections to mining pools playing games with new transaction types. Senator Elizabeth Warren might even drop by!
Watch a video version of the show here.
Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 Start
00:01:54 Intro & Bitcoin Halving
00:03:27 Difficulty Adjustment
00:05:01 Bitmain & BitFuFu
00:07:08 New US ASIC Maker
00:10:07 Promising or Flop?
00:11:15 Ordinals Corner
00:15:31 Ordinals Hype Chart
00:18:33 Ordinals vs. ETH NFTs
00:20:15 Ordinals & Block Space
00:23:45 Ordinals: JPEGs for BTC?
00:26:16 Mining Fees & Ordinals
00:28:41 Bitcoin Pool Revenues
00:31:17 Pool Decentralization
00:33:20 Sen. Warren on Crypto
00:37:15 Wrapping Up
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Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Visa fler
