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Can Bitcoin Survive Low Transaction Fees? Sep 02, 2025

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

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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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Will ASIC Miners Ever See Another Bull Run? Aug 26, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, TicTacc Director of Business Development Michael Rhoden joins us to talk about the current state of the ASIC market in 2025, including the impact of tariffs on pricing and demand, Proto’s ASIC miner launch, the rise of hydro cooling solutions, manufacturing shifts to the US, and how public miner pivots to AI/HPC are reshaping the mining hardware landscape.

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**Notes:**

• Tariffs add 19% duty on Malaysian imports

• S21 Plus best seller with hydro cooling

• Proto rig weighs 120 pounds, 10-year life

• US manufacturing capacity still limited

• Bitcoin mining margins remain thin

• Ethiopia halts new mining expansion

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:52 Proto miner thoughts?

04:23 Proto pricing

06:13 Consumer interest in Proto

07:32 Tariffs

10:19 Bitmain's markets

12:08 Hottest ASIC markets globally

15:34 Ethiopia market

17:12 China mining

19:34 Cooling trends

22:53 S21 oversupply?

26:48 AISC prices not in a bull run

29:08 HPC pivots

34:46 Mad in the USA

37:22 Auradine

41:00 Dynamic ASIC market

43:12 Wrap up

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Google Ups TeraWulf Stake, MSTR’s New Stock Guidance, Kanye’s Memecoin Aug 22, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Luxor CEO Nick Hanson joins us to discuss TeraWulf's upsized convertible note and Google boosting its WULF stake to 14%, [Micro]Strategy's flip-flop on share dilution, Applied Digital's $3B North Dakota data center expansion, Riot shedding its Bitfarms stake below 5%, and the latest memecoin spectacle, Kanye West's Yeezy Money launch on Solana.

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**Notes:**

• Hash price sits at $55/PH/day, down significantly

• TeraWulf market cap hits $3.6B after Google deal

• Applied Digital announces 280MW data center

• Riot divests BitFarms stake below 5%

• Yeezy coin reaches $2B market cap briefly

• MicroStrategy changes dilution guidance rules

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:04 CEO stepping down

03:29 Mining only, no HPC

05:36 More management changes?

08:26 Operations & cashflow

12:36 Colorado Air Filter

16:21 ASIC purchases

19:06 Status of 10 exahash

22:08 Cleanspark

22:38 Debt & growth

27:31 Treasury strategy

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What To Expect From Friday's Fed Meeting In Jackson Hole Aug 21, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Vuk Vuković, economist and co-founder of Oraculum Fund, joins us to talk about Jackson Hole expectations, Fed Chair Powell's next moves, Trump's pressure for rate cuts, tariff negotiations, and why Bitcoin now trades like a traditional risk asset. Vuković shares insights from his fund's unique crowd-sourced prediction methodology that accurately called Trump 2016 and Brexit.

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NOTES:

• Orca Fund grew from $700K to $75M in 2.5 years

• Fund targets 30% annualized returns via volatility

• US debt-to-GDP ratio now 120% vs 25% in 1970s

• Markets pricing in September Fed rate cut

• Bitcoin correlation with Nasdaq hurts hedge value

• Gold replacing bonds in 60/40 portfolios

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:36 Vuk Vuković intro

03:36 Value of Volatility

05:02 Methodology

08:25 Jackson Hole Thoughts

11:14 Colorado Air Filter

12:15 Cutting rates

15:18 Powell Predictions

16:10 Companies Absorbing Tariffs

17:33 Equities Market

22:01 What's the Market Pricing In?

23:49 BTC September Dips

25:39 Prediction Markets

26:10 Cleanspark

26:38 Risk Assets

28:29 Gold

30:34 Hedging Strategy

31:59 Tariffs

35:58 Strategy of Rate Cuts

37:18 BTC Price Drop?

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Leadership Change, 50 EH/s, and HPC W/ CleanSpark's Harry Sudock Aug 19, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Harry Sudock from CleanSpark joins us to talk about the company's major leadership transition with CEO Zach Bradford's departure and Matt Schultz taking the helm. We dive into CleanSpark's impressive growth to 50 EH/s, their pure play mining strategy versus the industry's pivot to HPC/AI, and how they're managing a $680M convertible bond. Harry shares insights on fleet efficiency, power portfolio optimization, and the strategic optionality their strong cash flow provides.

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**Notes:**

CleanSpark hits 50 EH/s installed capacity
$680M convertible bond raised in December
Over 1 gigawatt power under contract
CEO transition after 6 years leadership
Strong cash flow drives optionality
Coinbase credit line for tactical moves

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:04 CEO stepping down

03:29 Mining only, no HPC

05:36 More management changes?

08:26 Operations & cashflow

12:36 Colorado Air Filter

16:21 ASIC purchases

19:06 Status of 10 exahash

22:08 Cleanspark

22:38 Debt & growth

27:31 Treasury strategy

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We're in a Recession on TikTok, But Not in the Market Aug 17, 2025

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We’re diving deep into the disconnect between market performance and recession fears. They explore viral TikTok recession indicators, analyze Q2 earnings data, examine job market softening, and discuss whether we're actually heading into recession territory or if it's all just economic anxiety amplified by social media vibes.

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## Notes:

- 33% recession probability down from 45% in April

- S&P 500 earnings grew 11.8% year over year in Q2

- Only 73,000 jobs added in July vs expectations

- May/June job numbers revised down by 258,000

- Energy sector earnings dropped 18-19% in Q2

- 92% probability of September Fed rate cut

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

00:32 Wen resesh bruv?

03:54 Recession Pop Music

10:48 White Lady Dasher

12:49 Data nerd time

24:56 Mag 7 earnings

26:49 Unemployment

31:34 Consumer credit

33:44 What's a humble central bank to do?

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Jack Dorsey's Proto Miner is Coming For Bitmain Aug 16, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! On today’s bonus edition, Perry Hothi from Block joins us to talk about Proto’s new ASIC miner, Rig. We dive deep into the technical specs, modular hashboard design, open-source mining software, and how Block plans to compete in a hardware market dominated by Bitmain. Perry explains Rig’s data center-inspired features and Block's broader Bitcoin ecosystem strategy.

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**Notes:**

• 14.1 joules per hash efficiency rating

• 12kW power consumption per unit

• 96-224 chips per configuration

• Swappable hashboard design

• Single phase power that helps balance all three phases

• Two fans per three hash boards design

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:31 Specs: Jules per Terahash

05:18 Form Factor

12:03 Colorado Air Filter

13:05 Hashboard Swapping

17:28 Under clocking (operating range)

18:54 Block ecosystem

21:22 Competitors

23:42 Cleanspark

24:11 Next Gen

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Proto ASIC Miner, MARA’s AI Move, Google Invests in Terawulf, Ethiopia Mining Ban Aug 15, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin Harper and Matt cover Proto's groundbreaking new ASIC miner, Terawulf’s $3.7B Google-backed HPC deal, Ethiopia's bitcoin mining ban, and Monero's 51% attack.

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**Notes:**

• Proto Rig: 14.1 J/TH, 800 TH/s, swappable hashboards

• Terra Wolf: $3.7B deal, Google 8% stake

• Bitcoin hit $124K ATH, down to $117.9K

• Hash price: $57.89 per PH/day

• Mara acquires 64% stake in Exaion for $168M

• Monero down 18% after miner attack

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

03:09 Difficulty Report by Luxor

08:02 Proto Event

14:51 MARA stake in Exaion

18:36 Cleanspark

19:05 Terawulf 200 MW HPC deal

23:15 Ethiopia mining ban

27:24 Cry Corner- Monero 51% attack

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Pacific Northwest Bitcoin Mining w/ Beau Turner Aug 13, 2025

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Beau Turner, the CEO and co-founder of Abundant Mines, joins us to talk about Pacific Northwest Bitcoin mining. Oregon and Washington have some of America's lowest power rates thanks to abundant hydropower, but there's less mining in the region than you might think. Beau explains the barriers keeping hashrate from the PNW, 9.9MW capacity limits, Oregon’s burgeoning curtailment programs, AI competition for power, and how early miners "poisoned the well" in 2018.

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**Notes:**

• Oregon industrial power: 6-8¢/kWh

• Pacific NW has 200-500MW mining capacity

• BPA limits sites to 9.9MW blocks

• 100% bonus depreciation now available

• Texas has several gigawatts vs PNW

Timestamps

00;00;00;00 Start

00;03;28;00 Starting Abundant Mines

00;08;59;09 Pacific Northwest Mining

00;11;24;24 Why not more PNW mining?

00;16;34;12 Industry prospects

00;19;50;29 Smaller is better in PNW

00;22;27;28 Hydro generation

00;24;20;29 Cleanspark

00;24;49;26 Oregon curtailment

00;28;30;23 Power purchase agreements

00;32;09;29 Bitcoin is for Everyone

00;34;05;21 Changes since the halving

00;36;44;25 Depreciating equipment

00;41;57;05 ASIC prices

00;46;20;21 Peak US hashrate?

00;51;30;23 Wrap up

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