Episodes

  • Block’s New ASIC Miner With Core Scientific and Proto

    Block’s New ASIC Miner With Core Scientific and Proto
    Dec 3 2024
    Welcome back to the Mining Pod! On today’s show, we have an exclusive with Proto and Core Scientific, who recently announced a collaboration on a new ASIC chip design. Core Scientific–one of the largest Bitcoin miners in the world–will be buying 15 EH/s of chips to make custom units. Meanwhile, Proto will be working on selling more chips and a custom form factor of its own. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:20 Building hardware at Argo 03:48 Proto miner 05:36 Proto tools development 06:29 Intel chips 08:59 Why is Core Scientific interested in ASIC creation 13:34 Collaboration vs competition 16:06 Interacting with Bitcoin needs to be easier 17:59 Geopolitics 19:54 Having US built ASICs 22:33 Have ASICs gotten better? 25:01 Repairs 27:26 Upgrading rigs 30:09 Form factor changes 35:51 AI & mining 45:36 Is AI driving site design? 50:50 15 exahash or bust? 52:34 EPIC collaboration 56:50 Launch date? 57:28 Open market sales eventually? 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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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Cleanspark FY2024 Earnings Call Analysis

    Cleanspark FY2024 Earnings Call Analysis
    Dec 3 2024
    Welcome back to The Bitcoin Stock Show! For today’s livestream, Colin, Will, and Charlie welcome two special guests, bitcoin mining stock analyst Pennyether and Luxor CEO Nick Hansen, to digest Cleanspark’s 2024 fiscal year financials. For the full show with the earnings call portion, please check out our YouTube. 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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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • Bitmain’s Border Dispute, Trump’s Tariffs, ERCOT’s Mining Registration and Hosting Market Check In

    Bitmain’s Border Dispute, Trump’s Tariffs, ERCOT’s Mining Registration and Hosting Market Check In
    Nov 30 2024
    It’s a holiday week but a lot has happened in Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining! We’re going through our scoop on Bitmain’s issues with the U.S. CBP, how miners are dealing with Trump’s possible tariffs (and what they can mean for your business), why and how ERCOT is asking miners to register and lastly a check in on the hosting market with our friends over at Compass Mining! Check out Compass Mining for more information on the hosting market in Bitcoin: @compass_mining Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:40 Difficulty update 06:44 Customs confiscates Antminers 12:42 Trump tariffs 20:16 Compass: Hosting market 32:02 New Texas reporting rules 39:37 Cry corner: ETH heads are shook 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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    45 mins
  • Public Miner M&A Tops $470 million in 2024

    Public Miner M&A Tops $470 million in 2024
    Nov 27 2024
    Welcome back to The Bitcoin Stock Show! For today’s livestream, Colin and Will break down 2024’s M&A activity – and there’s a lot to sift through. Deals brokered by Cleanspark, Bitfarms, MARA, Riot, Bit Digital, and Cathedra have resulted in over $470 million worth of M&A deal flow 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! 👉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
  • Hut 8, US Bitcoin, And Synteq With Jaime Leverton

    Hut 8, US Bitcoin, And Synteq With Jaime Leverton
    Nov 26 2024
    Former Hut 8 CEO Jaime Leverton joins The Mining Pod! We go through her time at Hut 8 building an industry leading HODL, her transition out the door though the merger with US Bitcoin Corp, to her new ventures in fintech and DeFi. We lastly touch on her interests in Bitcoin stocks and equities with some advice for other CEOs in the mining space. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:28 Jaime’s bio 05:37 HUT 8"s Bitcoin treasury 08:10 Jaime’s Bitcoin moment 08:53 HUT 8 & US Bitcoin merger 12:48 Exahash headlines 14:27 Merger & debt 16:35 Transitioning out of CEO role 18:37 Jaime’s the bag holder 21:57 Infrastructure 24:05 HPC & AI demand 27:57 HPC's future form factor 31:55 Chair of the board 32:58 Hashprice & predictions 33:59 What's looking good? 37:46 Thoughts on being a public company CEO 38:57 ULYS startup 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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    42 mins
  • ASIC Prices, Russia Restrictions, Alaska Bitcoin Mining, $4.6B Mining Stock Shorts, Bye Bye Gary

    ASIC Prices, Russia Restrictions, Alaska Bitcoin Mining, $4.6B Mining Stock Shorts, Bye Bye Gary
    Nov 22 2024
    Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Colin, Charlie, and Matt are back with this week’s biggest Bitcoin mining headlines. To start, the trio dives into this week’s Mining Pod newsletter to discuss revival of the ASIC miner market. Then, they provide an update on incipient restrictions of Bitcoin mining in Russia in areas with power shortages. They also cover a novel story onHicorp tapping the largest gas reserve in the US with a bitcoin mining pilot in Alaska, yet more news on AI-pivots from bitcoin miners, and the $4.6 billion in open shorts against Bitcoin miners. Finally, for this week’s cry corner, Bitcoin and crypto professionals, pedestrians, and obsessives rejoice at the resignation of Gary Gensler. Timestamps: CHAPTERS 00:00 Start 02:22 Difficulty update 06:31 ASIC prices rebound 13:03 Russia restricts mining in certain areas 19:50 Hilcorp natgas mining in Alaska 26:01 Miners moving to AI 34:12 $4.6bn short squeeze 36:23 Cry Corner: Gensler is gone, girl 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: @AsILayHodling, @cbspears, @bc1matt - 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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    43 mins
  • Are Mining Stocks Overvalued? With JP Morgan’s Reggie Smith

    Are Mining Stocks Overvalued? With JP Morgan’s Reggie Smith
    Nov 19 2024
    JP Morgan analyst Reggie Smith rejoins Colin and Will to discuss Bitcoin mining economics, valuation metrics, and the emerging intersection with AI computing. We go through how a big bank like JP Morgan values miners, including possible costs and revenues, before focusing on AI/HPC and mining. Lastly, we finish on mining costs, dilution and relative valuations of the mining industry. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:53 Fintech team at JPMorgan 02:42 Valuing mining companies 03:38 Analyst goals 06:11 Miner report 07:51 Economic models 12:40 Calculating operational costs 18:38 AI and costs 21:52 How liquid is the AI compute market? 25:36 Good metrics for miner valuation? 28:42 Payroll costs 32:29 Equity dilution 39:17 AI strategies 46:40 The power of existing PPAs 51:22 Highest & lowest gains 54:18 Are miners overvalued? 58:12 M&A activity 1:01:40 Price & hashrate predictions 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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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Oct Miner Updates, MARA M&A, Mining in Ethiopia, and Block’s Proto ASIC

    Oct Miner Updates, MARA M&A, Mining in Ethiopia, and Block’s Proto ASIC
    Nov 15 2024
    Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Colin, Will, and Matt are back with this week’s meatiest mining headlines. October updates are in for public bitcoin miners, so the gang covers the highs (and lows) of the first month of Q4. They also cover MARA’s 8-figure acquisition of three mining sites in Ohio. Plus, an update on Bitcoin mining in Ethiopia, which is reportedly netting the country’s power authority ~$55 million in business with roughly 2-3% of the Bitcoin network’s hashrate in the country. And for the final news item, an update from Block’s Proto team on its forthcoming bitcoin mining ASIC – oh, and this week’s cry corner, in which *checks notes* legacy media pundits are still comparing Bitcoin to the dot com bubble’s defunct early movers… 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, @AsILayHodling, @bc1matt - 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