The Mining Pod | Bitcoin Mining News

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! Enjoying the show? Subscribe to the RSS feed for the podcast here. 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 👉 Check out our NEW referral network! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 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.

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! Enjoying the show? Subscribe to the RSS feed for the podcast here. 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 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 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.

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 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 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 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.

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 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 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 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.

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 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 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.

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 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 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.

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 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 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!

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. - 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.

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? 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! 👉 Check out our other shows and content by going to Blockspace.media today. 👉 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.

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! 👉 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.

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 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! 👉 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.

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 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! 👉 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.

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 Start 00:02:30 Introducing Steve Barbour 00:04:12 Bitcoin mining & energy 00:07:33 Upstream Data's origins 00:14:13 Upstream Data's naming 00:19:35 Canadian oil vs. Bitcoin 00:24:35 Upstream Data's services 00:32:54 Colorado oil & Bitcoin 00:36:11 Bitcoin vs oil cycles 00:41:45 Bitcoin & AI 00:45:00 Water vs. air cooling 00:49:05 Advice for new miners 00:53:59 Mining contract tips 00:57:19 When to start mining 01:01:31 Steve on Bitcoin ordinals 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! 👉 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!

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 Start 00:01:07 Intro 00:04:21 The Big Empty Documentary 00:05:40 Taiwan Earthquake Impact 00:10:55 Bitcoin Ordinals Corner 00:15:33 Mining Pool Centralization 00:24:23 Stratum V2 Discussion 00:29:35 Poolin Sells Texas Assets 00:35:18 Sauna Miner Test: S21 vs M60 00:38:08 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.

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 Start 00:02:52 Matt Williams Intro 00:04:11 Matt's Background 00:09:50 English Major & Skiing 00:12:37 CME & Bitcoin Futures 00:19:58 Luxor Hashrate Futures 00:28:06 Luxor's Product Suite 00:32:37 CME Bitcoin Futures 00:36:14 Futures Explained 00:41:34 Changing Pool Models 00:44:30 Transaction Fee Hedging 00:48:55 Volatility & Derivatives 00:50:54 Futures & Options Check 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.

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.media Thanks to Foreman Mining for sponsoring the show. Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining. https://foreman.mn/

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.

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.

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.media⁠ Thanks to Foreman Mining for sponsoring the show. Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining. https://foreman.mn/

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