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Who’s the top Bitcoin miner? We rank them in this week’s news roundup. Plus Auradine raises a ton of money to bring Bitcoin mining manufacturing stateside.

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Welcome to The Mining Pod! In this episode, the gang breaks down the latest in Bitcoin mining with their weekly hash price update, showing prices hovering around $45 per petahash day with an expected 2.5% difficulty increase. We then flex to"Bitcoin Mining Mountain" - a spicy tier ranking of top mining companies based purely on vibes. The crew also discusses Auradine raising $153 million in Series C funding to expand ASIC manufacturing, dives into Luxor's derivatives market for hash rate futures, and concludes with Coinbase's alleged front-running controversy with their "Base is for Everyone" token launch.

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# Notes:

- Hash price currently at $45 per petahash per day

- Expected 2.5% difficulty adjustment on April 19

- Ordean raises $153M in Series C funding

- Bit Deer ranked S-tier due to Tether investment

- Luxor did $65M in notional volume in Q1

- Hash rate growth projected to slow in 2025

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:08 Difficulty Report by Luxor

04:24 Ranking Miners

26:27 Auradine raises $153 million

32:42 Luxor Market Update

44:12 Cry corner - Coinbase rugs ‘Base’ users

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Pierre Rochard, one of the OG voices in Bitcoin discourse, joins us to discuss his new Bitcoin Bond Company as the continuation of the speculative attack thesis that he wrote about a decade ago. Pierre shares insights on corporate Bitcoin adoption trends, the trade-offs between on-chain transactions vs custodial services, and why he's more open to soft forks than many Bitcoin maximalists. The conversation takes a personal turn when Pierre explains how Bitcoin's shift away from materialism created space for his spiritual journey back to Catholicism.

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Notes:

- Bitcoin bonds enable borrowing weak currencies

- MicroStrategy uses convertible bonds for Bitcoin

- Transaction fees crashed during bear markets

- ETFs reduce on-chain Bitcoin footprint

- Corporate adoption mainly from struggling companies

- Pierre has cataloged 22 soft fork proposals

Timestamps:

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01:36 Who's Pierre Rochard?

03:27 What's a speculative attack?

09:24 Current market outlook

11:48 Starkware interview reaction

20:45 Priced out of on-chain access

26:40 Arch

27:14 Corporate influence over protocol development

36:39 Corps buying BTC

39:34 Degens & speculation

46:05 Religion & faith

49:44 The virtues of soft forks

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