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Bit Digital’s White Fiber AI/HPC Rebrand w/ Sam Tabar Feb 13, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For today/s Bitcoin Stock Show, Bit Digital CEO Sam Tabar joins to talk about WhiteFiber, the company’s AI/ HPC business line.

This week, Bit Digital rebranded its AI/HPC business to WhiteFiber in a bid to distinguish it from its bitcoin mining business. Sam discusses the motivation for the rebrand, teases plans to spin out WhiteFiber as a standalone entity, and Bit Digital’s timeline to grow its AI/HPC capacity from 4 MW to 32 MW by the end of 2025. Plus, the burning question: what does all of this mean for Bit Digital’s bitcoin mining business?

Timeline

00:00 Start

02:24 What is WhiteFiber?

05:37 HPC expertise

12:14 Colocation vs GPU as service

14:50 Development timeline

16:51 Debt financing?

20:09 ETH bags getting heavy

24:58 Clients

26:15 When to spin out White Fiber

29:01 Exiting BTC mining?

32:16 Benefits of the Bit Digital model?

34:04 Canada & US sites

34:25 Stargate & Deep Seek

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Mining For The Streets With Bitaxe Feb 11, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Skot from the Bitaxe project and Econoalchemist from Pod256 join the show to talk about open-source Bitcoin mining hardware.

From hitting a Bitcoin block during a mining charity event to developing standardized hash

Boards, we talk about Bitcoin mining hardware. Learn about their Skot and Econoalchemsts take on the Bitmain monopoly and attempt to make Bitcoin mining accessible to everyone.

Notes:

• BitaxeOpen Source Project

• 256 Foundation Mission

• Breaking Mining Monopolies

• Standardized Hash Boards

• DIY Mining Innovation

• Hardware Democratization

Timestamps

00:00 Start

01:59 Telehash & hitting block

05:26 Intros

12:51 256 Foundation mandate?

16:02 BitAxe users

18:53 AmberOne project

22:08 Designer BitAxe culture

27:24 Mining centralization

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Bitdeer’s Power Plant, Trump’s ETFs, Softbank’s $50m Cipher Bet, and Nebraska’s Mining Tax Feb 07, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Colin, Will, and Matt are back at it this week with a packed docket of news. Bitdeer has acquired the rights for a $90 million, 101 MW natural gas power plant in Alberta in a bid to become even more vertically integrated, and Cipher cashes in on Project Stargate with a $50 million investment from Softbank. Plus, two cheers for taxation (but not actually): Russia has codified a tax code for bitcoin miners, and a Nebraska Senator introduces a bill for a $0.025 per kw excise tax on bitcoin miners. For our last news item, Trump wants to launch bitcoin ETFs, because memecoins just weren’t sophisticated enough. And for this week’s cry corner, why Ethereum is no longer deflationary and what a croissant can tell us about the future of ETH issuance (seriously).

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Timestamps

00:00 Start

02:21 Difficulty report

05:03 Bitdeer Power Plant

11:32 Softbank invests $50m in Cipher

16:18 Russian miners reporting & taxes

22:20 Nebraska rate hike

28:17 Bitcoin Plus ETF

32:20 Cry corner: uLTrA SOunD MooONeeY

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2025 Is the Year of the AI/HPC Miner w/ Kevin Dede Feb 06, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For today’s Bitcoin Stock Show, Kevin Dede, a managing director of equity research at investment bank H.C. Wainwright, joins to discuss AI/HPC hybrid bitcoin miners vs. pure-play ones – specifically, which strategy Dede is bullish on for 2025 and beyond. We touch on what the $500 billion project Stargate means for bitcoin miner AI aspirations, what he thinks of Riot and Bitfarms evaluating their sites for an AI retrofit, which miners he favors in the AI race, and more.

Timestamps

00:00 Start

02:40 AI vs pure play miners

06:30 Constraints of Mining & network effects

08:55 Hashrate growthrate per year

09:50 Predicted hashrate growth

11:09 Project Stargate

15:54 Infrastructure vs computes plays

22:11 Investor perception

23:07 Riot pause

28:15 Is it too late to HPC convert?

31:18 Core Scientific

39:28 Favorite miner pivoting to AI

43:57 Does AI push miners out of USA?

49:47 Bitdeer's HPC pipeline

54:28 Tiny Texas town

56:51 Hive in Paraguay

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Ohio: Bitcoin Mining's Hidden Gem Feb 04, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Andrew Burchwell from the Ohio Blockchain Council joins us to discuss Bitcoin mining in Ohio. From groundbreaking state

legislation and strategic reserve bills to the challenges with utility tariffs, Andrew shares insights on building Bitcoin-friendly policy at the state level. He also dives into Ohio's energy future, the role of natural gas and nuclear power, and how Bitcoin mining fits into the state's industrial development plans.

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Notes:

• Ohio Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Bill

• Energy Policy Transformation

• Utility Tariff Challenges

• State-Level Bitcoin Advocacy

• Trump Administration Impact

• Education & University Programs

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

03:37 Andrew bio

05:29 Ohio Blockchain Counsel

08:58 Mining & legislators

12:15 Miners in Ohio

14:00 North American Blockchain Assoc

16:42 Trump & Regulations

21:22 Ohio Strategic Bitcoin reserve

23:32 Current state of BTC lobbying

27:35 What topics to focus on?

29:51 BTC & anti-state sentiment

35:56 How to get involved

38:15 Electricity tariff

40:17 Pushback from utility providers

41:16 Unlikely allies

44:04 Degrowth policy

45:06 Energy policy in Ohio

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Hive’s Paraguay Acquisition, BTC Miner ETF, Hashrate for Charity, and DeepSeek Jan 31, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Colin and Matt are back for this week’s news roundup. They touch on Hive’s $85 million, 200 MW acquisition of a Yguazu, Paraguay bitcoin mine from Bitfarms. Plus, Grayscale launches a bitcoin miner ETF, a home-mining device wins a $330,000 bitcoin block for charity, and why the market freaked out over DeepSeek this week. And for this week’s cry corner, why you shouldn't trust Brad Garlinghouse’s call for crypto unity.

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:57 Difficulty report

18:28 Grayscale miner ETF

33:26 Hashrate Fundraiser Mines Block

37:28 DeepSeek

43:36 Cry corner: Ripple CEO Very Sad

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Hive's $85M Yguazú, Paraguay Acquisition w/ Frank Holmes + Aydin Kilic Jan 30, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s Bitcoin Stock Show, Colin welcomes Hive Executive Chairman Frank Holmes and CEO Aydin Kilic to discuss the company’s LOI to acquire Bitfarms’ 200 MW bitcoin mine in Yguazú, Paraguay for $85 million ($56 million for the site, $19 million for the PPA, and $10 million for construction contract). Once fully energized, the acquisition and Hive’s other, 100 MW site in Paraguay should catapult the company from 6 to 25 EH/s under management. During the conversation, Holmes and Aydin discuss why they are putting so many chips on Paraguay, the timeline for the 200 MW site’s completion, why they are outfitting it with Antminer S21 Hydros, and more.

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:52 Deal process

07:48 Capital access & foreign mining sites

17:24 Tariffs on energy

24:15 Paraguay roll out phases

28:58 Cooling

32:02 Deal hand off

33:22 PPA

34:35 Regional power make up

39:24 Other Paraguay site?

40:08 2025 predictions

43:57 Energy as sovereign asset

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Bitcoin Mining in South America with Erick Vera Jan 28, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Erick Vera, the Latin America business development lead at Luxor, joins today to discuss the bitcoin mining industry in South America. Vera gives us a rundown of the region’s bitcoin mining hotspots – namely, Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil – and digs into the nuances, challenges, and opportunities bitcoin miners face in each country, including Paraguay’s gobs of hydro power, Brazil’s abandoned manufacturing sites that are ready for miners, and Argentina’s oil and gas field bitcoin mines. He also touches on other South America countries he thinks are primed for bitcoin mining adoption.

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:14 Countries active in Latin America?

03:17 Venezuela

04:59 Active MW

06:00 Brazil & Argentina

12:45 Brazil & Paraguay hyrdopower

15:18 Paraguay regulations

21:04 Import tariffs

24:59 More tariffs, more problems

30:57 Migration & business classification

34:02 Slow growth in Brazil?

37:06 Abandoned industrial sites

40:55 Argentina

46:22 Argentina off grid sites

48:16 Other promising sites

51:07 Wrap up

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The Story of the Silk Road (Bitcoin Season 2) Jan 26, 2025

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Ross Ulbricht is free, full pardon! But how did we get here & what actually was the Silk Road? Colin & Charlie dive in on this episode of Bitcoin Season 2.

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Crusoe / Upstream Data Patent Ruling, Lancium’s Stargate Deal, and 2024 Year-in-Review Jan 24, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, the gang covers news that Blockspace broke regarding a surprising mixed decision in Crusoe and Upstream Data’s patent dispute. Plus, Lancium gets in on the Project Stargate action with a 1.2 GW AI campus, a data recap from Hashrate Index’s 2024 Year-in-Review, and TSMC is fabbing ASIC chips for Bitdeer’s SEALMINER series in the U.S.A. And finally, for this week’s cry corner, scammers hijack Riot Platform’s X account to lure folks into the Solana memecoin casino.

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:28 Difficulty report

05:36 Crusoe & Upstream

14:54 Lancium’s Project Stargate Deal

27:34 Hashrate Index 2024 Year-in-Review

45:36 TSMC US fabbed chips for Bitdeer

51:34 Cry corner: Riot Hack

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