Author: CoinDesk

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Colin, Will, and Matt are back with this week’s meatiest mining headlines. October updates are in for public bitcoin miners, so the gang covers the highs (and lows) of the first month of Q4. They also cover MARA’s 8-figure acquisition of three mining sites in Ohio. Plus, an update on Bitcoin mining in Ethiopia, which is reportedly netting the country’s power authority ~$55 million in business with roughly 2-3% of the Bitcoin network’s hashrate in the country. And for the final news item, an update from Block’s Proto team on its forthcoming bitcoin mining ASIC – oh, and this week’s cry corner, in which *checks notes* legacy media pundits are still comparing Bitcoin to the dot com bubble’s defunct early movers…

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:24 Difficulty update

06:12 Public miner October updates

14:37 MARA adds 122 megawatts

19:52 Ethiopia earns $55M

27:28 Block’s new ASIC

37:33 Cry Corner: Bitcoin is not a dot com bubble stock

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Host Christine Lee breaks down Trump's announcement of the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

President-elect Donald Trump taps Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency to slash wasteful government spending. "CoinDesk Daily" host Christine Lee explores the context, breaks down the reaction and explains what impact DOGE will have in the future.

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The latest price moves and insights with Jennifer Sanasie and Coinbase Institutional head of research David Duong.

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Coinbase Institutional head of research David Duong joins CoinDesk to break down bitcoin's recent surge in price and the potential of a strategic BTC reserve in the U.S. Plus, insights on the role of stablecoins and memecoins in the current bull cycle.

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Host Christine Lee breaks down the news in the crypto industry from bitcoin's new ATH to the latest from Ethereum's Devcon.

Bitcoin recorded its largest daily gain in history with $8,400 added on Veterans Day. Could the largest crypto by market cap hit the $90,000 level? Plus, updates from Ethereum's Devcon conference and FTX takes legal action against Binance and former Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao. "CoinDesk Daily" host Christine Lee breaks down the biggest headlines in the crypto industry today.

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Not so long ago, Bitcoin miners had difficulty accessing debt – they still do, but miner capital markets have improved significantly. Secure Digital Markets Co-founder and Direct of Sales and Trading Mostafa Al-Mashita joins us on this Mining Pod to explain how these markets have changed and what it will take for them to improve further. He also gives his take on what a second Trump presidency means for Bitcoin and the market more broadly. 

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Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:17 Secured Digital Markets

03:20 Financial products for miners

07:11 Miner auto-liquidating

11:10 Miners using derivatives

14:04 Miner OTC desks?

17:30 Lending

20:45 Will ASIC backed loans come back?

23:46 Seizing ASICs to pay back debt

25:49 Fed funds rate changes

28:52 Has the ETF changed miner capital markets?

32:09 ETF effects

34:07 Public vs private capital access

38:36 Is capital access for private miners getting easier?

43:34 US presidential election

44:35 Chokepoint 2.0

49:03 Any personal effects of Chokepoint 2.0

52:16 Macro effect of election

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In this episode of “Gen C”, CMO of Avalanche, Grad Conn discusses everything from digital brand building to on-chain ownership rights, and shares insights from his decades of experience with Microsoft, Sprinklr and other tech companies.

CMO of Avalanche, Grad Conn is bringing decades of marketing experience from CMO roles at Microsoft and Sprinklr as well as his own tech startups to the pod. In this episode, he discusses Avalanche's approach to building a developer-friendly blockchain and draws parallels between Web3 and the early days of the internet.

Links mentioned from the podcast: 

• Avalanche Website
• Grad’s Twitter

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CoinDesk Indices presents notable data insights from the week, followed by additional analysis from Leo Mindyuk, Co-Founder & CEO, ML Tech

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The CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) functions as a benchmark for the performance of the digital asset market, delivering institutional quality information to digital asset investors. Subsets of the CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) are investable CoinDesk Crypto Sectors and the CoinDesk 20 Index, designed to measure the performance of top digital assets. Today’s takeaways are provided by Tracy Stephens, senior index manager at CoinDesk Indices with additional analysis from Leo Mindyuk, Co-Founder & CEO, ML Tech

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Host Christine Lee breaks down the news in the crypto industry from the surge in Cardano's ADA token to the scrutiny Polymarket faces in France.

Cardano's ADA token surged as a top chief to Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said there's a "high likelihood" he could become Trump's crypto advisor. Plus, France's gambling regulator is examining the operations of Polymarket and WonderFi's CEO has been released after being abducted. "CoinDesk Daily" host Christine Lee breaks down the biggest headlines in the crypto industry today.

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We watched Bitcoin miner Riot’s Q3 financial reporting and ripped a podcast right after! 

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! We watched Riot Platform's Q3 2024 earnings call last week and then ripped an analysis show, featuring mining expert Penny Ether. Discussion covers hash rate growth, operational efficiency, potential AI/HPC pivot, Bit Farms acquisition strategy, and future mining industry challenges.

Link to the article: https://blog.coinshares.com/no-end-in-sight-for-the-asic-arms-race-4ede8e346cbf

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Timestamps:

01:11 Post call discussion

01:58 Earnings call highlights

04:24 Revenue expectations

07:22 Did RIOT beat expectations

10:52 Cost of Revenue

12:19 Curtailment

17:34 Equity Dilution

21:14 Access to debt financing

25:38 Bitfarms

30:22 HPC & AI business lines

38:31 Russia & China

41:25 Timing the HPC market

Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 

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Host Christine Lee breaks down the news in the crypto industry from bitcoin's new record high to the hope for a U.S. bitcoin reverse.

Bitcoin price jumped above $76,000, reaching a new record high after Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election. Plus, whether the industry will see the establishment of a U.S. bitcoin reverse and the latest outlook of Fed rate cuts. "CoinDesk Daily" host Christine Lee breaks down the biggest headlines in the crypto industry today.

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