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We’re talking about Biden’s AI order, Core exiting Chapter 11 in the next few months and Tether’s $600 million unsecured loan to Northern Data. Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are joined by Dan Roberts, Co-CEO of Iris Energy, to discuss its 2023 financials, recent Antminer S21 pre-order and its experiment with AI/HPC. Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the news roundup! We’re talking about if you should buy ASICs before a mega-price pump, why and how Marathon Digital is diluting shareholders with a $750 million equity offering and Siphon, a novel Ordinals bot that kneecaps BRC-20 mints but causes MEV on Bitcoin. Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reggie Smith, lead FinTech analyst at JP Morgan, joins us to discuss his recent research into Bitcoin mining stocks including Riot, Marathon, Cleanspark and Cipher Mining. Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt and Charlie join to talk about Bitcoin’s pop above $30,000, ASIC rig prices changing after the S21 appearing on the scene and what Taproot assets mean for Bitcoin. Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are joined by Paul Sztorc and James McAvity of Layer2 Labs and Cormint, respectively. We discuss the pressing issue of crypto fees, how to think about L2 designs for Bitcoin, criticisms of BIP 300/301 and why Bitcoin miners arn’t more involved in Bitcoin governance. Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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

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

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

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

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/adchoice...

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

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

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://theminingpo...

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...

Today we are joined by Anthony Power to go over June’s monthly mining numbers.  https://compassmining.io/education/bitcoin-mining-stock-roundup-june-monthly-numbers/ Anthony Power: https://twitter.com/cazenove Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:40 Mining Metrics 00:04:40 Texas Energy Challenges 00:05:54 Full CP Program Benefits 00:07:35 Mining Stock Surge 00...

Today we are joined by James McAvity, CEO of Cormint about their new yield product, immersion, and the realities of mining in Texas. https://cormint.com James: https://twitter.com/jamesmcavity Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Start 01:12 James background 02:43 Cormint background 05:07 Why immersion? 06:44 Balance Sheet 08:47 Yield on BTC 10:47 Yield product details 13:38...

Today we are talking about the hashrate and how it don’t give a f^#$, Binance laying off 1000 people and XRP gets some news in it’s case. https://mempool.space/mining https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/07/14/binance-cut-1000-workers-in-recent-weeks-wsj https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/07/13/ripple-labs-ruling-throws-us-crypto-token-regulation-into-disarray/ Matt Kimmell: https:...

Today we are joined by Karim Helmy, an independent researcher. Karim walks us through his novel use of nonce analysis to study the ASIC topography of the Bitcoin network and energy footprint. https://twitter.com/karimhelpme/status/1668592283871244288 https://coinmetrics.io/special-insights/bitcoin-nonce-analysis Karim Helmy: https://twitter.com/karimhelpme Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley...

Today we are talking about the miners pivoting to AI and what’s up with Bored Apes? Listener Survey https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdvmgIN36Uz8Xul73lNiLADM0vyUxHCuy5WKFDsgI1qiTznuw/viewform https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/07/07/bitcoin-mining-is-a-game-of-survival-consolidation-and-potential-ai-diversification-bernstein/ https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/06/30/applied-digital...

Today we are joined by Blake King, Power Markets Engineer at Galaxy Digital. We discuss how ERCOT works, what signals energy traders look for and how battery and Bitcoin mining loads interact on the grid. Blake King: https://twitter.com/hhornblower95 Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00:00 Start 00:01:38:17 Hot in Texas 00:03:55:03 ERCOT 00:08:21:01 Demand calculations 00...

Today we are joined by Frank Holmes and Aydin Kilic of Hive Blockchain to discuss their recent ASIC acquisitions and jump into AI processing. https://hiveblockchain.com Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Start 01:11 Pivot to AI 02:34 Ordinals 04:09 Balance sheet 06:03 ASIC ROI 11:18 6 exahash by year end 14:46 Uncommon sats 16:10 Greenhouse project 18:52 GPUs 21:16 Hive cl...

Today we are joined by Jason Goodman Co-Founder of Bathhouse a thermal bath & spa facility in New York that utilizes Bitcoin mining to heat their pools. We discuss infrastructure, energy costs and public reaction to learning the source of their heat.  Instagram: https://instagram.com/bathhouse Location: 103 N 10th St, Brooklyn, NY 11249 Booking: https://na.spatime.com/abh11249/73814252/home Jason...

Today we are joined by Justin Orkney, Mining. Commercial Director at Standard Power. We discuss building a one gigawatt site in Ohio, nuclear power, and the future of demand response in North America. https://twitter.com/StandardPower Justin Orkney: https://twitter.com/jorkney5 Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley SPONSOR MinerMag is a research and data portal focusing on institutional bitcoi...