Episodes

  • Compute North Lawsuit, Phoenix Group’s 50 MW Site, Canaan’s Nano 3S and Avalon Mini 3

    Compute North Lawsuit, Phoenix Group’s 50 MW Site, Canaan’s Nano 3S and Avalon Mini 3
    Jan 10 2025
    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 Start 02:19 Difficulty report 07:32 Creditors sue Compute North 16:30 Phoenix 50MW North Dakota site 27:18 Yearly overview 31:15 Canaan Nano 3 home heater 40:13 Cry corner: Metamask seeks Bitcoin product manager 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! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    49 mins
  • 2024 Bitcoin Mining Year in Review w/ Nico Smid

    2024 Bitcoin Mining Year in Review w/ Nico Smid
    Jan 9 2025
    Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s Bitcoin Stock Show, Digital Mining Solutions Founder Nico Smid joins us to share insights from Digital Mining Solution’s 2024 year-end report. During the conversation, Smid shares his and his co-author Cindy Feng’s findings on a range of topics, including 2024’s hashrate growth relative to prior years, bitcoin mining trends in Latin America, pending mining IPOs, predictions for 2025, and more! 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! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    40 mins
  • The Truth About the Russia Bitcoin Mining Ban

    The Truth About the Russia Bitcoin Mining Ban
    Jan 7 2025
    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 Start 03:09 Defining the "ban" 07:42 Legalizing mining 09:07 Identifying miners for regulation 10:22 The scope of Bitcoin mining in Russia 13:16 Subsidizing residential miners 15:50 Effect on global hashrate 17:09 Kazakhstan 22:59 Russia energy crisis? 25:54 Grid balancing 30:40 Oil & gas production areas 32:04 Chechnya 33:16 What regions have the most activity? 36:22 Miners vs hosting 37:42 Taxes 38:47 Where is investment capital coming from? 42:08 Hosted miners 43:17 Future of Russia mining 45:21 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! 👉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
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    46 mins
  • Solving Ordinals Sniping w/ MagicEden (Bitcoin Season 2)

    Solving Ordinals Sniping w/ MagicEden (Bitcoin Season 2)
    Jan 5 2025
    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: @cbspears Bitcoin 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 Intro 02:19 Roles in Magic Eden, Joining Ordinals 05:57 Growth in Bitcoin Ecosystem & Magic Eden’s Vision 07:13 Expanding Beyond Ordinals: Runes & Ecosystem Building 10:56 Marketplace Challenges & Collaboration in Engineering 20:33 User Benefits: Shield Icon, Mempool Fix & Cart Optimization 30:06 New Trading Features & Improved User Experience 33:11 Enhancing Liquidity & Making Runes Accessible 38:18 Mobile Launch & Broader Market Adaptation 42:28 Magic Eden’s Future in Bitcoin Community & Challenges 45:56 Future Outlook on Bitcoin Economy & Innovation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    49 mins
  • Russia Bitcoin Mining Ban, BitFuFu’s 80k ASIC Order, and a Rhodium Update

    Russia Bitcoin Mining Ban, BitFuFu’s 80k ASIC Order, and a Rhodium Update
    Jan 4 2025
    Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Will and Colin are back from the holiday break with the latest news, plus an update on the ASIC hosting market from our friends at Compass. At the top of the news docket, they touch on Russia’s bitcoin mining ban, particularly which miners the ban actually affects (and which ones it doesn’t). Also in the rotation, BitFuFu’s massive 80k ASIC order from Bitmain, and an update on a few of Rhodium’s outstanding litigations. And for this week’s cry corner: pour one out for all the folks who were sad/big mad that they didn’t get invited to Michael Saylor’s $100k New Year’s Eve party… Timestamps: 00:00 Start 00:00 Start 01:51 Difficulty update 06:17 OMG Russia bans Bitcoin mining!!!!! 11:59 ASIC hosting market update 23:20 BitFuFu 80k miners 30:50 More trouble at Rhodium 36:46 Cry corner: No invite to Saylor party! 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! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    41 mins
  • Block’s Proto ASIC With Max Guise

    Block’s Proto ASIC With Max Guise
    Dec 30 2024
    Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Max Guise, a team member from Block’s Proto division, joins to talk about the company’s new ASIC chip. A veteran of Block, Guise has worked on everything from the Proto mining ASIC, to Square’s point-of-sale, and its hardware wallet Bitkey. During the discussion, Guise gives us a brief history of Proto’s origins, discusses the challenges of designing (and manufacturing and marketing!) a bitcoin mining ASIC, provides a timeline for the Proto ASIC rollout, and even graces us with a demo of the chip! Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:21 Max bio 03:56 Working at Square & CashApp 04:58 Building the point of sale product 06:20 Building hardware 09:48 Genesis of Proto 12:33 Open development 13:37 The team 14:59 What is Proto 16:59 Selling chips 19:56 Closed sourced firmware 21:38 Lifecycle examination 23:32 Market strategy 24:33 Financing 25:05 Hashrate as payment 26:16 Deployment 28:29 When new rig? 28:59 Ecosystem of products 30:13 Other components 30:58 Working with competing miners 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! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    33 mins
  • The Best Used ASICs w/ James Scaggs and Will Middleton

    The Best Used ASICs w/ James Scaggs and Will Middleton
    Dec 28 2024
    Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Advanced Crypto Services (ACS) Founder James Scaggs and Co-founder Will Middleton join to talk about all the pertinent operational considerations for bitcoin mining, including the biggest question of all: whether it’s better to buy or mine bitcoin. They touch on the repair side of the business, how some of these older generation ASICs are holding up, which models are the best bang for your buck, and common failure points for ASIC hardware. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:37 Bios 04:20 10-20 MW mining operation 06:51 DIY mentality 08:24 Revenue 11:17 ASIC resale market 15:45 Rig prices vs hashprice 23:13 Are S19s the new S9s? 27:31 Aluminum backed hash boards 30:19 Advice for beginners 39:30 Off peak hour mining 44:31 Upgrading rigs 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! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    48 mins
  • The Mining Metrics That Matter With Pennyether

    The Mining Metrics That Matter With Pennyether
    Dec 26 2024
    Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s Bitcoin Stock Show, we’re joined by a great friend of the show, Pennyether. Some of y’all might recognize Penny from a couple of the earnings calls we streamed on The Bitcoin Stock Show earlier this year. He’s one of the most insightful independent bitcoin mining stock analysts in the game, and in this episode, he shares his methodology for valuing bitcoin miners, which metrics he finds the most (and least) useful, and his thoughts on the AI boom in mining. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:53 The mining metrics that matter 10:33 More important metrics 19:24 Valuing AI and miners together 26:55 A note on Bitfarms 28:32 What does the market actually care about? 33:10 Thoughts on convertible debt 36:55 How to hedge convertible notes 45:31 Bigger narratives in mining 48:10 The future of bitcoin mining and data centers 52:55 What metrics aren’t worthwhile? 43:02 What does 2025 look like? 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 Follow this week's guest on Twitter: @penny_ether - 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
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    56 mins