Month: August 2024

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE MINING POD: Public Miners Raise a Couple Billi, CleanSpark May Launch a Mining Pool, and Solo Mining Is Cool Again

In this week’s news roundup, Charlie, Colin, and Matt take a look at the $2.1 billion in financing public Bitcoin miners have accrued recently, CleanSpark’s mining pool aspirations, and the surprising resilience of solo miners post-halving.  


Welcome back to The Mining Pod! How much have public miners raised since Q2? A lot – like, $2.2 billion kind of a lot. The majority of this liquidity flows from at-the-market (and other) stock offerings in Q2, while a handful of miners have also turned toward convertible notes for financing in Q3. In addition to that news, we also cover a story that Blockspace broke regarding CleanSpark’s desire to launch its own mining pool, and we finish the feel good underdog story that yes, solo miners are still out there (and they’re actually making money).  


Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:43 Bitcoin mining market / metric update

7:50 Publicly traded Bitcoin miners raise $2.1 billion since Q2

10:00 Bitdeer $150 million convertible note

12:46 Marathon $250 million convertible note to buy BTC

14:21 Core Scientific $350 convertible note to pay down debt

17:13 When CleanSpark pool? 

23:48 Bitaxe and solo mining 33:54


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CBS News Roundup - 08/16/2024 | World News Roundup

Vice President Harris set to unveil her economic plan. Hurricane Ernesto heads for Bermuda. Mideast cease fire talks continue. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Off The Beaten Path: The Busy Beaver Button Museum!

If you ever find yourself strolling down Armitage Avenue in Logan Square, you may encounter a friendly beaver on a three-foot wide baby blue button, greeting you with a simple “Hello!” The button marks the entrance to the Busy Beaver Button Company and Museum, a spot in Logan Square that has archived 60,000 pin-back buttons. They’ve got everything from a “pre-button” celebrating George Washington’s inauguration to a heart-shaped button of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Reset sent two team members to the museum to find out what's so special about buttons. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Up First from NPR - Harris Economic Plan, Trump Economic Plan, Matthew Perry

Vice President Harris laid out her vision for the economy in a policy speech. Former President Donald Trump pledged to bring down consumer prices and increase wages, and five people were charged in connection with the death of actor Matthew Perry.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Landing padded: the global-recession risk

Inflation, interest rates and jobless numbers are on healthy trends; markets are gaining back ground. As the spectre of global recession fades we ask why fear has persisted. In the second instalment of our series on dating we look at what singles are doing beyond the apps (10:23). And a tribute to Joss Naylor, Britain’s legend of fell running (18:51).


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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 8.16.24

Alabama

  • A 3rd nitrogen hypoxia execution is authorized by AL supreme court
  • Congressman Strong seeking answers from DHS on influx of illegal aliens
  • Carolee Dobson sides with Dem party chairman over delegate dust up
  • Sen. Tuberville fires back at Dem VP pick Tim Walz for his insult of the coach
  • Attorney Christina Bobb talks about her election battle on 1819 News podcast

National

  • Massive hack involves 2.7 billion people's info now exploitable
  • Kamala Harris unironically proposes price controls to lower inflation
  • Trump holds 2nd press conference, blames Harris for border & inflation crisis
  • Trump Campaign brings back Corey Lewandowski and 4 others
  • Columbia University prez resigns due fallout from protests before summer
  • 2 states  appeal cases to SCOTUS over state ban of men in women's sports
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Unexpected Elements - The only one

The Olympics is all about flying the flag for your home country, shoulder to shoulder with your team-mates. But what if you have no team-mates? At this year’s Olympic games, four countries had just one competitor. Like Sean Gill from Belize, Somalian runner Ali Idow Hassan, or Romano Püntener, a mountain-biker representing Liechtenstein.

This got us thinking about the only one. The panel discuss what it must be like to be an ‘Endling’ – the last remaining animal of an otherwise extinct species, and wonder if there might be ways to bring them back.

We delve into the intriguing psychology behind the urge to collect things, why collectors are so entranced by rare items, and how the psychological pull of ‘exclusivity’ and ‘limited editions’ can make us vulnerable to marketing scams.

And what about a baby, born of only one parent? A ‘virgin birth’ – a miracle perhaps? Not so, as we discover that females giving birth without any help from males is surprisingly common. It is called Parthenogenesis, and although humans cannot do it, a dizzying array of animals can. Alexis Sperling from the University of Cambridge explains the science.

News montage sources: Channel 5 Belize, BBC News

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton with Chhavi Sachdev and Andrada Fiscutean Producer: Emily Knight with Florian Bohr, Julia Ravey Sound engineer: Emily Preston