Just as no one in the world could possibly make something as simple as a pencil all by himself, as the great Leonard Read explained in his famous essay, I, Pencil, so it is with Mises University.
Since the mid-’90s, employers have been using an online system to verify the legal right of employees to work in the U.S. That system often falls short, and now employers have been encouraged to recheck workers' legal status as the Trump administration has canceled work authorizations for hundreds of thousands of immigrants. But first: Universal Music Group is closer to selling shares on a U.S. stock exchange. And, how long will the housing market remain stagnant?
VanEck’s Head of Digital Assets Research, Matthew Sigel, joins the podcast to discuss bitcoin treasury plays, CoreWeave’s $9 billion bid for Core Scientific, and other hot trends in the Bitcoin equities realm.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, VanEck’s Head of Digital Assets Research Matthew Sigel joins us to talk about Core Scientific's massive $9B CoreWeave acquisition deal, whether Bitcoin treasury companies are getting too crowded with 30+ deals in pipeline, AI infrastructure pivots among miners, and if the crypto equity boom is here to stay.
• Core Scientific $9B all-stock deal with CoreWeave
• 850MW HPC/AI infrastructure potential capacity
• US listed miners hit 31% global hash rate
• 30,000+ Bitcoin bought by 15 treasury companies
• Meta Planet trading at 5x Bitcoin NAV premium
• $150M annual revenue target for Hut 8's AI business
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:55 Coreweave & Core Scientific
07:40 Coreweave's BTC mining operation
08:52 Volatility & Coreweave's stock price
12:25 Fractal Bitcoin
13:05 Future of pure BTC miners
17:45 American Bitcoin
20:54 What's keeping public miner stock prices suppressed?
24:02 Too many treasury companies?
29:58 International strategies
35:45 Gamestop & Semler Scientific
39:27 Bit Digital ETH pivot
42:49 Cycle narrative
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Michael F. Cannon and Neal McCluskey let us listen in on their ongoing 20-year debate over who has the more difficult job -- fixing health care or education. McCluskey argues that government's monopolistic control over K-12 education and compulsory schooling creates a more fundamental threat to freedom, while Cannon contends that health care is even more dysfunctional due to cascading government interventions that have created the world's most expensive and gap-ridden health system. Both scholars explore how government subsidies drive up costs in their respective sectors and outline their visions for more libertarian, market-based alternatives.
More than 60 million people will be impacted by a heat dome starting today. Government releases MLK files. Remembering actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
From the BBC World Service: Drugmaker AstraZeneca says it’ll invest $50 billion in the United States by 2030, its biggest-ever manufacturing investment in the country. The AngloSwedish firm plans to build a major new site in Virginia, the latest in a string of big pharma bets on the U.S. as President Donald Trump threatens steep tariffs on drug imports. Plus, a bike shop boss reflects on business during the Tour de France.
While Ford City Mall in West Lawn faces demolition and going the way of many of its mall brethren, two other suburban shopping centers in the area are thriving. A “reader’s choice” report from USA Today says Oakbrook Center in the western suburbs and The Fashion Outlets of Chicago in Rosemont are among the best in the nation.
Reset looks at what makes these and other Chicago-area shopping centers great and discusses how local malls are changing to draw visitors at a time when malls nationwide have been in decline.
Our guests: Amanda Lai, Director of Food Industry Practice at McMillanDoolittle;
Meha Ahmad, Reset senior producer; Rachel Herzog, Crain’s Chicago Business commercial real estate reporter.
For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
Is Austrian Economics compatible with modern sociology, which is presently dominated by collectivists? However, it is possible to apply praxeology to sociology analysis, and that is where one begins to approach this discipline in a manner that promotes liberty.
In the foggy, early evening of November 7th, 1990, two people at a Montreal hotel noticed something bizarre in the sky. Soon, multiple people in the hotel had gathered on a rooftop terrace to observe a genuine UFO -- and, soon after that, people across the city began reporting the object (if it was an object). In the almost three decades after this sighting, numerous witnesses, experts, fringe researchers and skeptics have attempted to explain exactly what was hovering over the sky for hours that evening. Join the guys as they delve into the case in tonight's Classic episode.
Israel has expanded its military ground operation into central Gaza, the US Homeland Security Department is preparing to use military bases in New Jersey and Indiana for immigration detention, and attorneys for Harvard University are in federal court over the administration's attempt to cut billions of dollars in research funding and contracts.
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Today's episode of Up First was edited by Hannah Bloch, Anna Yukhananov, Steve Drummond, Janaya Williams and Alice Woelfle. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas. We get engineering support from Stacey Abbott. And our technical director is Carleigh Strange.