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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’ Bitcoin Stock Show, Colin sits down with Cathedra Bitcoin COO and President Drew Armstrong of Kungsleden Founder Tom Masiero, whose companies merged last year. They talk about Cathedra/Kungsleden’s infrastructure plays and strategy, bitcoin mining hosting vs. pure-play mining business strategies, what we can expect from the AI/HPC plays that are so hot right now, what Trump means for the bitcoin mining industry, and more.Timestamps:00:00 Start02:33 Stas Per Share memo05:41 Synota deal11:13 Hosting market16:35 Hosted v self mining22:15 Lesson learned last cycle27:39 Kungsleden Merger33:14 Core Scientific pivot37:47 Buying AI GPUs42:18 Trump changesPublished 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! 👉Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media!👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show!Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell-Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner!And Luxor Tech, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power!"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Michael Carter (Bits Be Trippin) joins us to share hisrecent experience with city council meetings and mining facility approvals. From soundregulations to economic impact studies, Michael breaks down the challenges of establishingmining operations in municipal areas. Plus, we dive into 2025 forecasts, ASIC developments,and the evolving landscape of Bitcoin mining infrastructure.Timestamps:00:00 Start02:22 BBT updates05:55 City council meeting15:24 City zoning & mining20:36 Anti-bitcoin sentiment?25:48 Considering human impacts28:34 Raising privet investment36:19 Complexity of difficulty41:15 New ASICs45:58 Overheating Bitmain rigs52:02 2025 outlookPublished 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! 👉Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media!👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show!Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmellThank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner!And Luxor Tech, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power!"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s Bitcoin Stock Show, we welcome back Second Gate Advisory Co-founder Brandon Bailey for a refresher on Bitdeer. Bailey first came on the show in September 2024 after penning an op-ed for Blockspace, “The bullish case for Bitdeer.” Since this analysis, Bitdeer is up 240%, and he thinks it has room to grow, largely because of the company’s burgeoning ASIC manufacturing line. We touch on the ASIC manufacturing line in depth in this episode, plus some insights into other newcomers to the ASIC manufacturing space. 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! 👉Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media!👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show!Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell-Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner!And Luxor Tech, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power!"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s news roundup, Colin and Will dig into Tether’s lawsuit against Swan Bitcoin, the latest development in a now two-front legal dispute over the companies’ bitcoin mining joint venture. Plus, the U.S. government is issuing trade restrictions against Sophgo, a Chinese computer chip company helmed by Bitmain CEO Micree Zhan, and F2Pool might be filtering transactions from OFAC-sanctioned Bitcoin addresses again. And finally, for this week’s cry corner, a Bitcoin mining company’s guerrilla sales tactic to get Ethereum DeFi platform AAVE to invest its treasury into bitcoin mining.Timestamps:00:00 Start02:30 Difficulty report04:49 Tether sues Swan16:14 BitFuFu Plans Oklahoma Mine24:52 F2Pool Censoring TXs33:37 Cry corner: AAVE to mine BTC?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! 👉Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media!👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show!Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell-Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner!And Luxor Tech, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power!"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, the CEO of Hashlabs Mining, Jaran Mellerud, joins Colin to discuss Bitcoin mining in Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Bitcoin mining on the European market is almost exclusively confined to these Nordic countries – this episode explores why. Jaran and Colin discuss power markets in these countries, why mining has gotten more expensive in Sweden and Norway, the toothless attempt to ban mining in Norway, how bitcoin miners are helping with district heating in Finland, and more.Timestamps:00:00 Start01:53 Jarran intro02:31 Why is hashrate concentrated in Nordic countries?05:42 How has mining there changed recently?16:33 Cooling Hashlabs20:37 Finland nuclear surplus23:06 Finland district heating24:53 Is Norway banning mining?29:02 Iceland vs Norway AI data centers31:25 Public vs private mining33:16 Bitdeer expanding Norway36:59 Iceland & Finland hydro & geothermal38:57 Mining elsewhere in the EU?41:20 Green manufacturing failing & excess powerPublished 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! 👉Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media!👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show!Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell-Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner!And Luxor Tech, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power!"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're dropping a show from Bitcoin Season 2, another podcast on Blockspace! If you enjoy the show, check it out on Spotify, Apple or wherever else you listen to podcasts!For today's Writer's Room, Colin and Charlie celebrate Running Bitcoin Day by picking through the Bitcoin Talk archives for a selection of Hal Finney's most prescient takes. Finney is famous for being the first person (after Satoshi) to run Bitcoin -- a claim to fame that involves receiving the first non-mining related transaction from Bitcoin's creator -- as well as being one of the earliest contributors to Bitcoin Core. Hal was highly active in Bitcoin's salad days and a prolific poster on Bitcoin Talk, where he provided his thoughts on Bitcoin's earliest versions, pontificated over the cryptocurrency's future, and shared ideas with its earliest adopters. Many of Hal's ideas and prognostications were incredibly incisive and clairvoyant -- almost frighteningly so -- hence the title of today's show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For today’s news roundup, Will, Colin, and Matt are joined by Luxor CEO, Nick Hansen. The gang covers news that Blockspace broke this week pertaining to a creditor lawsuit against former executives of defunct Compute North, the erstwhile bitcoin mining hosting titan that went bankrupt in 2022. Plus, Phoenix Group’s 50 MW bitcoin mine in North Dakota, a 2024 bitcoin mining market review from Nick, and Canaan’s new home mining heater series with the Nano 3S and Avalon Mini 3. And for this week’s cry corner, popular Ethereum browser wallet Metamask is adding support for…Bitcoin? Timestamps:00:00 Start02:19 Difficulty report07:32 Creditors sue Compute North16:30 Phoenix 50MW North Dakota site27:18 Yearly overview31:15 Canaan Nano 3 home heater40:13 Cry corner: Metamask seeks Bitcoin product managerPublished 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! 👉Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media!👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show!Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell-Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner!"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nico Smid, founder of Digital Mining Solutions and co-author of their 2024 report, dives into the booming world of Bitcoin mining. He highlights a jaw-dropping 56.7% increase in hash rate this year and discusses the emergence of Ethiopia as a mining powerhouse. The conversation covers regulatory hurdles facing miners in Paraguay and the migration to Argentina and Brazil. Smid also shares insights on upcoming public miner IPOs and bold predictions for 2025, revealing what the future holds for this dynamic industry.

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Denis Rusinovich, a partner at the Cryptocurrency Mining Group, speaks to Colin about the particulars of the Russia bitcoin mining ban. News broke in December that Russia would be banning bitcoin mining in 10 regions, effective January 1, 2025 through March 15, 2031. Only the ban is not an all-out ban like the first wave of reporting would have us all believe. For today’s show, Rusinovich sets the record straight and gives us a rundown of the miners who are actually affected by the ban. Timestamps:00:00 Start03:09 Defining the "ban"07:42 Legalizing mining09:07 Identifying miners for regulation10:22 The scope of Bitcoin mining in Russia13:16 Subsidizing residential miners15:50 Effect on global hashrate17:09 Kazakhstan22:59 Russia energy crisis?25:54 Grid balancing30:40 Oil & gas production areas32:04 Chechnya33:16 What regions have the most activity?36:22 Miners vs hosting37:42 Taxes38:47 Where is investment capital coming from?42:08 Hosted miners43:17 Future of Russia mining45:21 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 interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media!👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show!Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell-Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner!"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a crossposted podcast from Bitcoin Season 2. We've got Stephen & Matthew, engineering & product on the Bitcoin side of MagicEden, explaining how the platform combines cutting edge tech w/ intuitive product design.Follow our guests: @MakeTokensFun @summraznboi--Follow our host on X: @cbspearsBitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin.Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech!---Timestamps:00:34 Intro02:19 Roles in Magic Eden, Joining Ordinals05:57 Growth in Bitcoin Ecosystem & Magic Eden’s Vision07:13 Expanding Beyond Ordinals: Runes & Ecosystem Building10:56 Marketplace Challenges & Collaboration in Engineering20:33 User Benefits: Shield Icon, Mempool Fix & Cart Optimization30:06 New Trading Features & Improved User Experience33:11 Enhancing Liquidity & Making Runes Accessible38:18 Mobile Launch & Broader Market Adaptation42:28 Magic Eden’s Future in Bitcoin Community & Challenges45:56 Future Outlook on Bitcoin Economy & Innovation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices