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Who are AfriForum- the white Afrikaner minority group that's behind Donald Trump's intimidation of South Africa?
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The CBP is seizing ASIC miners at the border, and Chinese tech giant Tencent adds to its bitcoin mining exposure.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s news roundup, Colin and Matt talk about the big story Blockspace broke this week: the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency is seizing Antminer ASICs at ports of entry, and it’s also started to detain MicroBT and Canaan units. Plus, the $500 billion Chinese tech giant Tencent ups its stake in newly-christened public bitcoin miner Cango to 15.6%. They also touch on Bit Digital’s WhiteFiber AI rebrand, and why Riot’s newest board member signals that it’s getting increasingly serious about an AI pivot. The duo also welcomes Luxor Director of Energy Trading Haley Thomson to discuss what the AI boom means for Texas power prices. And for this week’s cry corner: bitcoin obituaries are dead – all hail number go up.
Notes:
• CBP Seizes Mining Equipment
• Texas Energy Market Changes
• Tencent Invests in Kango
• Data Center Power Demands
• Mining Hardware Challenges
• Energy Market Evolution
Timestamps
00:00 Start
01:20 Difficulty report
04:33 CBP crackdown on ASICs
12:08 Tencent owns 15% of Cango
18:05 Haley Thomson, Dir of Energy Trading @ Luxor
30:52 Bit Digital rebrands AI/HPC as WhiteFiber
32:24 Riot appoints Jamie Leverton to board among AI/HPC
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More federal job cuts as amid court efforts to curtail the Trump agenda. Determining Ukraine's future. California mudslides. CBS News Correspondent Deborah Rodriguez has today's World News Roundup.
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The American president and Indian prime minister have long been friends. But when the two met at the White House yesterday, they had many thorny issues to discuss, including trade and immigration. Why the skies are getting smaller–and more crowded (10:40). And “Saturday Night Live” at 50 (17:57).
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It’s been a busy month in D.C. for Elon Musk. WSJ’s Tim Higgins joins Ryan Knutson and Molly Ball to discuss what Musk’s strategies as a CEO can tell us about his plans for DOGE and the federal government. Plus, we get into Trump’s relationship with the judiciary and take a question from a listener about American expansionism.
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-Musk Brings His Business Playbook to Washington: Move Fast and Claim Victory
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OA1125 - (NOTE: Acting US Attorney for SDNY Danielle Sassoon’s resignation letter and DOJ acting deputy Emil Bove’s acceptance of that letter were published while we were recording this episode, and hours before the Trump administration was enjoined by a DC federal judge from suspending international aid. The news hose never stops!)
For this Rapid Response Friday, we do our best to answer some of your questions about waves hands in the general direction of DC.
Why is the media reporting the illegal attempts to fire (among others) the head of the Office of Special Counsel and 17 investigators general like a normal federal HR issue? Did FEMA really just straight-up steal $80 million from New York City’s bank account? Is it now legal to bribe foreign companies abroad and act as an unregistered foreign agent at home? Why are we sending Venezuelan asylum seekers with no criminal records or gang affiliations to Guantanamo Bay just weeks after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem promised that it would only be housing the “worst of the worst”? And just where exactly is the “Gulf of America” anyway? These and other questions from the week’s news are answered within.
Memo from AG Pam Bondi outlining DOJ enforcement priorities (2/5/25)
RI federal judge’s order finding Trump administration in violation of his previous injunction against the federal spending freeze (2/10/25)
“Air Jordan Tattoo Prompts ICE to Send Venezuelan Migrant to Guantanamo Bay,” Pablo Manriquez, Migrant Insider (2/9/25)
“First They Came For the Venezuelans,” Matt Cameron, DEPORTNATION (2/12/25)
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