This week on Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review, leaders of tech, energy and private equity promised to invest more than $90 billion to build an AI hub Pennsylvania. Plus, the Trump Administration says chipmaker Nvidia can sell its semiconductors to China again, following a brief ban. But first, Crypto Week wraps up on Capitol Hill. Congress advanced a trio of cryptocurrency bills that could pave the way for more adoption and regulation of digital currencies like bitcoin.
Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at the Information, about the details of those three bills.
Once again, commercial vessels sailing in the Red Sea are being attacked. Our correspondent explains why Houthi rebels, an Iranian-backed militia in Yemen, have regrouped. The islands of Tuvalu are sinking. Now Australia is offering residents the world’s first “climate visas”. And remembering Dutch agronomist Simon Groot.
For years, the playwright David Adjmi was considered “polarizing and difficult.” But creating Stereophonic seems to have healed him. Stephen Dubner gets the story — and sorts out what Adjmi has in common with Richard Wagner.
On this week’s roundup, we cover Bit Digital’s WhiteFiber IPO prospectus and public mine executive compensation.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin, Charlie, and Matt talk Bitcoin's surge to $123K and its impact on mining economics, Bit Digital's WhiteFiber IPO prospectus and pivot to an Ethereum treasury strategy, public miner executive compensation, BIT Mining’s Ethiopia expansion, and the Mempool.space’s "Baja Blast Summer" (i.e., ultra-low transaction fees).
• Ethiopia data centers use 30% of country’s energy
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:17 Difficulty Report by Luxor
08:33 Fees are SO LOW!
11:12 Bit Digital WhiteFiber S-1
14:21 Bit Digital ETH treasury
22:09 Fractal Bitcoin
22:48 VanEck: Executive Pay
27:27 BIT Mining Ethiopian data center
30:17 Cry Corner: Baja Blast Summer
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The U.S. Justice Department demands lists of all noncitizen inmates from California jails, challenging the state’s sanctuary laws and threatening subpoenas if counties don’t comply. Meanwhile, the University of California considers raising its annual tuition increase cap from 5% to 7% to address budget cuts, inflation, and reduced federal support. Critics worry the plan focuses more on revenue than student aid, while a cohort-based tuition freeze is set to expire in 2026.
Last night, President Trump achieved a major victory: persuading both chambers of Congress to cancel billions of dollars in spending that they had already approved.
In the process, the Republican-led Congress is giving President Trump the power that it, and it alone, is supposed to have.
Guest: Catie Edmondson, a congressional correspondent for The New York Times.
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President Trump is diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, after concerns of swelling in his legs. Democrats walk out of a judicial confirmation hearing for Trump’s former personal lawyer. And a Wall Street Journal report raises questions of whether an Air India crash was intentional.
This week, a new report into the dangers that sand and dust storms pose to the world's health and economy has inspired us to delve in the science of dust.
First, we look at the report by the World Meteorological Organisation and hear about what can be done to mitigate the dangers of dust.
We also find out the surprising way in which the Sahara is keeping the Amazon rainforest well-fed, and Derek Fabel from the University of Glasgow tells us how dust can help us to determine the age of glaciers.
Plus, the dusty maths that took 15 years to solve, and the musician who swapped jazz for space dust.
All that, and many more Unexpected Elements.
Presenter: Caroline Steel
Producers: Margaret Sessa-Hawkins with Alice Lipscombe-Southwell, Minnie Harrop, Lucy Davies, and Robbie Wojciechowski
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