Month: January 2025

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE MINING POD: Russia Bitcoin Mining Ban, BitFuFu’s 80k ASIC Order, and a Rhodium Update

For today’s news roundup, the guys clarify what Russia’s bitcoin mining ban actually means – plus other stories.


Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Will and Colin are back from the holiday break with the latest news, plus an update on the ASIC hosting market from our friends at Compass. At the top of the news docket, they touch on Russia’s bitcoin mining ban, particularly which miners the ban actually affects (and which ones it doesn’t). Also in the rotation, BitFuFu’s massive 80k ASIC order from Bitmain, and an update on a few of Rhodium’s outstanding litigations. And for this week’s cry corner: pour one out for all the folks who were sad/big mad that they didn’t get invited to Michael Saylor’s $100k New Year’s Eve party…


Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:51 Difficulty update

06:17 OMG Russia bans Bitcoin mining!!!!!

11:59 ASIC hosting market update

23:20 BitFuFu 80k miners

30:50 More trouble at Rhodium

36:46 Cry corner: No invite to Saylor party!



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The Gist - BEST OF THE GIST: Jimmy Edition

Each weekend on Best Of The Gist, we listen back to an archival Gist segment from the past, then we replay something from the past week. This weekend, we are doing two from the vault. We hear Mike’s interview with Ben Bradford, whose podcast Landslide tells the story of the 1976 Presidential race, which was seminal in the invention of modern conservatism. And then we time warp back to 2016 for Mike’s interview with Meg Jacobs joins us to discuss the lasting political legacy of the ’70s gas crisis. She’s the author of Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s. 

 

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Up First from NPR - Latest On New Orleans Attack; New Congress Comes Into Session; Carter’s Funeral

We'll bring you the latest on the FBI's investigation into the deadly Jan. 1st attack in New Orleans. Also, we'll take a look at the new Congress coming into session, with Republican House Speaker fighting for his job. Plus, we'll bring you the latest from the funereal events held for President Jimmy Carter, who passed away this week at the age of 100.

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The Daily Signal - EXCLUSIVE: Fortune 500 Company Fires Christian for Not Aligning With ‘Core Values’ on LGBTQ Issues

Russ Salerno lost his job at a Fortune 500 financial institution after several years because his employer concluded that his conservative Christian convictions "don't line up" with the company's "core values" on LGBTQ issues. Now, Salerno serves as the CEO of ProLifeFinTech, an online banking company that launched in November.

 Salerno tells his story in an exclusive interview with "The Daily Signal Podcast."

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NBN Book of the Day - Simon Miles, “Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War” (Cornell UP, 2020)

In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2020) dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US-Soviet relations across the years between 1980 and 1985, Simon Miles shows that covert engagement gave way to overt conversation as both superpowers determined that open diplomacy was the best means of furthering their own, primarily competitive, goals. Miles narrates the history of these dramatic years, as President Ronald Reagan consistently applied a disciplined carrot-and-stick approach, reaching out to Moscow while at the same time excoriating the Soviet system and building up US military capabilities.

The received wisdom in diplomatic circles is that the beginning of the end of the Cold War came from changing policy preferences and that President Reagan in particular opted for a more conciliatory and less bellicose diplomatic approach. In reality, as Miles vividly demonstrates, Reagan and ranking officials in the National Security Council had determined that the United States enjoyed a strategic margin of error that permitted it to engage Moscow overtly.

As US grand strategy developed, so did that of the Soviet Union. Engaging the Evil Empire covers five critical years of Cold War history when Soviet leaders tried to reduce tensions between the two nations in order to gain economic breathing room and, to ensure domestic political stability, prioritize expenditures on butter over those on guns. Written with style and verve, Miles's bold narrative shifts the focus of Cold War historians away from exclusive attention on Washington by focusing on the years of back-channel communiqués and internal strategy debates in Moscow as well as Budapest, Prague, and East Berlin.

Grant Golub is a PhD candidate in U.S. and international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research examines the politics of American grand strategy during World War II. Follow him on Twitter @ghgolub.

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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: Making Resolutions Fun – How to Be a Better Human in 2025

The new year is often a time when people think about what they want to improve about themselves — in other words, how to be a better human.

So today, we’re talking to the host of the podcast with that exact name.

Chris Duffy interviews experts on a wide range of topics, getting their best strategies for improving the lives of ordinary people. We’re having a light-hearted discussion about what it means to be a “better human," how to make New Year’s resolutions in a way that will take the pressure off (so maybe they’ll actually stick), and so much more.

 

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CBS News Roundup - 01/04/2025 | Weekend Roundup

On this week's "CBS News Weekend Roundup", anchor Stacy Lyn provides the latest on the deadly attack in New Orleans with reporting from CBS's Omar Villafranca, Tony Dokoupil and Michelle Miller. A new Congress was sworn in and House Speaker Mike Johnson secures the gavel in a close vote. Major Garrett with details. A look back at the life and legacy of former President Jimmy Carter, featuring sound from Carter's grandson, Jason.

In this week's Kaleidoscope, Kalliopi Mingeirou, the Chief of the Ending Violence Against Women Section at UN Women, joins Stacy to talk about the latest report on "femicides," or violence against women and girls.

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - John Roberts’ New Year Blame Game

Happy (?) New Year. Amicus is gingerly stepping into 2025 and into the coming onslaught of Trump 2.0 with one of the country’s very best legal, constitutional and human guides –– civil rights litigator and 14th Amendment scholar Sherrilyn Ifill. Together, Sherrilyn and Dahlia navigate some of the most pressing questions facing the law, the legal profession, and those who care about it. In his end of year judicial report, Chief Justice John Roberts chose to claim the mantle of both embattled civil rights champions and also infallible monarchs while blaming pretty much everyone except the court for the high court’s plummeting legitimacy. What does it mean when the most powerful men in the world equate all criticism with threats of violence, and confuse victory with victimhood? What does it mean when Supreme Court justices decide to freelance and freestyle as trial court judges and appellate litigators at high court oral arguments? And what do lawyers and judges need to do to hold the line in the coming year, and the years that will follow?


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