The Mining Pod | Bitcoin Mining News William Foxley
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With over 200 shows, The Mining Pod is the industry’s best resource for the latest news and strategies in Bitcoin mining. Trusted by over 3,000 subscribers, including mining executives, operators and fund managers such as Marathon Digital, Cleanspark and BitCap.
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Difficulty Drop, Arkansas Mining Bans and AI Mining Pivots
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
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"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. -
Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd joins The Mining Pod to discuss mining pool centralization threat vectors, MEV on Bitcoin, JPEGS and hidden attacks to Bitcoin.
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.
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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. -
It’s Name Was OP_CAT
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.
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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. -
Saving Small Town America With Bitcoin Mining
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.
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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! -
The $2.1 Million ‘Epic’ Bitcoin Satoshi
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.
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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. -
Why The Bitcoin Halving Matters With Alex Gladstein and Diverter
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!
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👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty!
Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.
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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.
Customer Reviews
CO2 emissions
Using stranded natural gas to generate electrical power for mining seems to be a good idea. And if that reduces greenhouse gas emissions, it’s even better. On that note, I can understand the reduction in methane emissions, but I struggle with the notion that CO2 emissions are reduced by methane combustion. Can you help educate us on this question?
Easy but Knowledgeable
Really enjoy listening to your team. I particularly enjoyed the one on OSL. Smart but a down to earth homeboy explaining the state of the (dis)union. Good stuff.
Best Crypto Podcast, even if you don’t mine!
This is my all time favorite crypto(blockchain) podcast. Through the lens of mining and this groups extended knowledge and experiences; countless golden nuggets and gems about how crypto works, markets, trading and the future of crypto are dropped for the listeners to find like easter eggs amongst tasteful jokes and commentary.
I highly recommend this podcast for anyone interested in learning more about crypto or for advanced initiates of the wild west that is crypto/blockchain. As they say DYOR and verify don't trust your information sources.
-@letgoletsgrow