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Gov. Gavin Newsom Teases Memecoin to Challenge Trump | CoinDesk Daily Sep 03, 2025

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom teases an upcoming release of a memecoin to challenge TRUMP.

California Governor Gavin Newsom teased an upcoming release of a memecoin to challenge TRUMP. Will it be able to "turn up the heat"? CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie hosts “CoinDesk Daily.”

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BITCOIN SEASON 2: Bears Are Wrong About Strategy’s Bitcoin Play Sep 03, 2025

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Ed and Tim from Bitcoin Treasuries break down the corporate bitcoin strategy space, MicroStrategy's dominance, valuation challenges, and what's next for treasury companies in this volatile market.

Ed and Tim from Bitcoin Treasuries join us to talk about the explosive growth of bitcoin treasury companies, why traditional metrics don't work anymore, MicroStrategy's continued outperformance versus the Mag 7, mining companies losing narrative appeal, and their upcoming September 17th Bitcoin Treasuries Unconference in NYC.

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**Notes:**

• MSTR outperformed Mag 7 every day for a year

• Traditional PE ratios don't work for BTC cos

• MicroStrategy: $500M revenue, $75M profit

• Fixed income markets worth $4 trillion

• Many treasury cos trade below NAV

• Bitcoin gains counted as revenue now

Timestamps

00:00 Start

01:17 Conference & podcast

03:01 MSTR price lag

05:20 Market outlook

06:55 Why BTC treasury companies?

09:30 Comparing companies

15:03 Bearish BTC miners?

18:34 Future of treasury companies

22:20 Winner take most or all?

23:27 Attracting capital

26:23 Bitmex Report

28:56 Conference highlights

32:55 Wrap up

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CoinDesk's David LaValle on Crypto ETFs and What's Next for Financial Infrastructure Sep 02, 2025

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David LaValle, the former head of ETF at Grayscale, begins his new role as CoinDesk's President of Data and Indices. He joins Jennifer Sanasie to discuss how the successful launch of spot bitcoin and ether ETFs marked a major inflection point, and why the market is now ready for its next phase of maturity. - Midnight is introducing a novel approach to token distribution. The Midnight Glacier Drop is a multi-phase distribution of the NIGHT token, aimed at empowering a broad, diverse community to build the future of the Midnight network. Holders of ADA, BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, BNB, AVAX and BAT are eligible to participate in the first phase. Help usher in the next generation of blockchain with rational privacy and cooperative tokenomics on the Midnight network. To learn more, visit https://www.midnight.gd/ and prepare for the Midnight Glacier Drop.

Gold Hits Record $3.5K as Whales Dump Bitcoin | CoinDesk Daily Sep 02, 2025

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Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry as gold surged to a record high of $3,500 an ounce.

Gold surged to a record high of $3,500 an ounce earlier, driven by growing expectations of Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts, a worsening fiscal outlook for major economies, and increased political pressure on central bank policies. Can bitcoin catch up to the momentum? CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie hosts “CoinDesk Daily.”

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THE MINING POD: Is Bitcoin’s Mining Revenue Model Broken? Sep 02, 2025

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Our guest, Cormint CEO James McAvity, makes the case that Bitcoin’s low transaction fees should raise concerns.

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, James McAvity, CEO of bitcoin miner Cormint, joins us to talk about a potential, looming existential crisis for Bitcoin: low transaction fee revenue. With transaction fees at only 2% of mining revenue, McAvity argues the current model is unsustainable as rewards halve every four years.

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**Notes:**

• Transaction fees: 1/50th of total block rewards

• 20GW mining capacity running 24/7 globally

• 70 basis points: current annual BTC issuance

• $30-50K: cost per gigawatt hour electricity

• 2036: block rewards drop to 8 basis points

• $20T: potential future Bitcoin market cap

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:32 Is mining cooked?

08:05 Interpreting Satoshi's Goals

13:17 Hot mess or solid roadmap?

20:46 Cleanspark

21:15 Fees in a money protocol

25:44 truested intermediaries

31:42 Monero attack

38:39 Longterm bearish on mining?

44:59 What to do?

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BITCOIN SEASON 2: Tether on RGB, finding UAE's $700mm in btc, and USGox data on Bitcoin Aug 30, 2025

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We dive into the UAE’s $700 M Bitcoin mine, the US government’s on‑chain data feeds via Chainlink, and Tether’s comeback on RGB, plus nation‑state mining drama.

Colin Charlie joins us to unpack the UAE’s secret $700 million Bitcoin mining operation, the US government’s bold move to publish macro data on-chain through Chainlink, and Tether’s planned launch on the RGB layer‑2. We also explore nation‑state mining strategies and the quirky characters behind RGB.

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Notes:

UAE mine valued at $700 M BTC

Citadel (UAE) operating the mine

US gov posting data on multiple blockchains

Chainlink oracle used for Bitcoin L2 Botanics

Tether targeting RGB (still pre‑v1)

Bhutan holds 12k BTC ($1.3 B)

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

00:21 UAE mining BTC

05:55 US data on-chain

11:03 Tether coming back to BTC

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Eric Trump Says U.S. and Beijing Are ‘Leading the Way’ in Crypto | COINDESK DAILY Aug 29, 2025

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Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry as Eric Trump praised China's crypto efforts.

Eric Trump praised China during a panel at BTC Asia, saying that there is “no question” the country had “made an unbelievable mark on bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.” He emphasized the U.S.–China dynamic as pivotal in the future of digital finance, saying the two countries led the world in cryptocurrency. CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie hosts “CoinDesk Daily.”

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THE MINING POD: ABTC Could Go Public Next Month, IREN Expands its GPU Feet, Ocean Pool Has a Glitch Aug 29, 2025

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Reports suggest that ABTC could start trading as early as next month following its merger with Gryphon Digital.

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, the crew digs into reports that ABTC could start trading as soon as September, how hashrate looks primed to rip, IREN’s 4,200 GPU buy, and a surprising Ocean Pool hashrate reporting glitch.

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**Notes:**

American Bitcoin aims Sep 2025 public debut.
Hash‑rate up ~5 % per Hash Rate Index.
Difficulty 44 % through adjustment period.
IREN financed $102 M for 8.5K GPUs.
Ocean Pool reported a false 300 EH/s spike.

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:31 Difficulty Report by Luxor

06:38 Gryphon and Hut 8 surge

13:13 ETPs reach March‐highs in outflows

19:44 IREN doubles GPU fleet

25:41 Cry Corner: OCEAN 300 EH/s bug

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BITCOIN SEASON 2: 5 Essential Privacy Tips For Bitcoin Aug 28, 2025

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Satsie from PayJoin Foundation explains why Bitcoin isn't anonymous, covers essential privacy tools like address management, VPNs, and running nodes, plus discusses PayJoin batching and silent payments for better on-chain privacy.

Satsie, board member of PayJoin Foundation joins us to talk about Bitcoin privacy fundamentals. We cover why Bitcoin isn't anonymous, essential privacy practices like avoiding address reuse and hardware wallet shipping risks, the importance of running your own node, and advanced tools like PayJoin transaction batching and silent payments for enhanced on-chain privacy.

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**Notes:**

• Bitcoin requires KYC through exchanges

• Address reuse is "really, really bad"

• Hardware wallets shipped to homes create risk

• PayJoin needs 5% network adoption minimum

• Node sync takes "couple days" currently

• Silent payments require blockchain scanning

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:24 Who is Satsie?

04:24 How private is Bitcoin?

06:06 Privacy is hard

07:58 Basic BTC privacy techniques

10:50 VPNs

11:57 Running a node

15:13 You are using somebody's node

17:28 What is Payjoin?

19:59 When would we use Payjoin?

21:10 Payjoin adoption

22:45 Multi-party Payjoin

23:54 Silent Payments

27:16 Current US privacy regulations

29:00 Soft forks

31:06 Resources

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BITCOIN SEASON 2: Nobody Is Using Bitcoin Right Now Aug 27, 2025

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Bitcoin transaction fees have collapsed to near-zero levels despite BTC hitting new highs. Will Owens from Galaxy Digital breaks down the data showing "free blocks" and what this means for miners and the network's long-term sustainability.

Will Owens from Galaxy Digital joins us to talk about Bitcoin's shocking transaction fee collapse. Despite BTC ripping to new all-time highs, fees have fallen to historic lows with "free blocks" becoming common. We dive deep into the data showing how custodial adoption and speculative activity moving to other chains is creating a miner revenue crisis.

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**NOTES:**

• Bitcoin fees at all-time lows despite $120K price

• "Free blocks" with 1 sat/vB fees now common

• Miners losing 15-20% potential revenue from fees

• 1.5M Bitcoin vulnerable to quantum attacks

• Hash price hit $35/TH all-time low recently

• Coinbase custodies over 1 million Bitcoin

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:05 Are fees important?

09:09 Free Block