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Which ASIC miner brand is the best and why have Bitmain and Whatsminer maintained a duopoly? Pow.re Co-founder and CTO Ian Descoteaux  joins Will this week to discuss the ASIC miner market. 

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Pow.re Co-founder and CTO Ian Descoteaux joins us today to talk about all things ASIC miners. In the conversation, we speak at length about the Antminer S21, including his experience deploying this model, its quirks / failure rates, and its performance. We also touch on ASIC prices and manufacturer competition, including why MicroBT’s Whatsminers are more expensive than other models, and whether or not Auradine and Canaan will be competitive in the near-future. Finally, we close on his takes regarding Bitmain’s newest hydro model, the U3S21EXPH.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:29 Update

03:11 New ASIC frustrations

04:16 ASIC price competition

06:20 Why MicroBT expensive

06:57 Canaan & Auradine

07:52 S21 deployment experience

09:46 ASIC failure rate

10:51 Repairs

12:46 Paraguay ASIC repair cost

14:44 S21 deliveries

16:07 S21 quirks?

18:39 New Bitmain units

20:02 Current ASIC market

23:05 U3S21EXPH Rack System

27:08 New equipment pushing market split

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The latest price moves and insights with Benjamin Schiller and Lyn Alden Investment Strategy founder and Analyst Lyn Alden.

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Lyn Alden Investment Strategy founder and Analyst Lyn Alden joins CoinDesk with her analysis on how macroeconomic factors like the Fed interest rate cut, China's economic influence and global liquidity are shifting the crypto market.

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Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the news in the crypto industry from the SEC's scrutiny against Binance to Sam Bankman-Fried appealing his fraud conviction.

"CoinDesk Daily" host Benjamin Schiller breaks down the biggest headlines in the crypto industry today, as the U.S. SEC filed a proposed amended complaint against crypto exchange Binance. Plus, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has appealed his fraud conviction and DeltaPrime saw over $6 million worth of various tokens drained from its wallets due to a private key leak.

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CoinDesk Indices presents notable data insights from the week, followed by additional analysis from Marcin Kazmeerchak, co-founder & COO of Redstone Oracles.

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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 Marcin Kazmeerchak, co-founder & COO of Redstone Oracles.

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Coinbase's new wrapped Bitcoin alternative, cbBTC, just launched. Will it challenge the dominance of WBTC in DeFi, or is it just another centralized solution? Coinbase’s VP of engineering, Will Robinson, breaks it all down.

On Thursday, Coinbase unveiled cbBTC, a tokenized version of Bitcoin on its Base layer 2 and Ethereum. This launch follows the recent BitGo controversy about the custody arrangement for Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) now involving Justin Sun, sparking concerns within the crypto community.

In this episode, Will Robinson, Coinbase’s VP of engineering, discusses the strategic importance of cbBTC, how it differs from other wrapped Bitcoin products, and what this means for the future of Bitcoin within DeFi ecosystems. 

Will Coinbase’s reputation as a "trusted custodian" be enough to make cbBTC the go-to choice for Bitcoin in DeFi, or will the industry remain skeptical?

• Why Coinbase launched cbBTC and how it aims to bring Bitcoin into the world of DeFi
• What happens behind the scenes when users mint cbBTC
• What sets cbBTC apart from other wrapped Bitcoin options, according to Will
• Whether Coinbase will expand cbBTC to other layer 2s and where users can already use it on major DeFi platforms
• Will’s response to criticisms about the centralization of cbBTC
• Why Coinbase's cbBTC launch was part of long-term plans, unrelated to the recent controversy around WBTC and Justin Sun
• How Coinbase plans to make money from cbBTC, considering that WBTC has not been a big moneymaker for BitGo
• Why Coinbase has the ability to freeze and blacklist cbBTC addresses
• How Coinbase ensures that Bitcoin backing cbBTC remains the property of token holders and won’t be used as collateral or rehypothecated
• Why Coinbase, a centralized entity, is launching cbBTC, a product for the decentralized, onchain world
• Why Will doesn't want to predict how much demand there'll be for cbBTC

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• Will Robinson, VP of Engineering at Coinbase

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Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the news in the crypto industry from the pause on Kalshi's political prediction markets to eToro's $1.5 million SEC settlement.

"CoinDesk Daily" host Benjamin Schiller breaks down the biggest headlines in the crypto industry today, as a U.S. federal appeals court halted Kalshi's political prediction markets upon a CFTC request for an emergency stay. Plus, eToro has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle SEC charges and Circle is moving to New York City.

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We’ve got a mixed bag of news for y’all in this week’s news roundup, including public miner operational updates from August, Japan’s largest power company mining bitcoin, Fractal Bitcoin’s rip-roaring first week, and the intersection of alternative history and shitcoinery (yes really). 

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Will and Colin hop on for another duo pod this week for one of the most eclectic roundups yet. The numbers are in for August for the public bitcoin mining world, and these companies are slowly (but steadily) expanding their hashrate, while also collectively selling more than 1,200 BTC over the month. In a testament to bitcoin mining’s utility for utilities, Japan’s largest power company, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), is mining bitcoin with a portion of its renewable energy assets. Finally, the lads breakdown the juicy details of sidechain Fractal Bitcoin’s first week. And in this week’s cry corne – in which Darryl Cooper (Martyr Made) gets BSV-pilled – they touch on the irony of an alternative historian storing his podcasts on a blockchain launched by a man who tried rewriting the history of Bitcoin.

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:05 Difficulty update

05:03 August miner updates

11:29 Tokyo mining BTC!

17:49 Fractal Bitcoin update

25:12 Cry Corner: Darryl Cooper BSV pilled

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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The latest price moves and insights with Jennifer Sanasie and Kaiko Research Analyst Adam Morgan McCarthy.

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Kaiko Research Analyst Adam Morgan McCarthy shares his outlook on the overall crypto market under the influence of a potential Fed interest rate cut and the upcoming U.S. election. Plus, the significance of liquidity as an indicator.

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Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the news in the crypto industry from the rally in SUI token to a Deutsche Bank survey on crypto and stablecoins.

"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines in the crypto industry today, as bitcoin surpassed $58,000 during Asian trading hours on the back of a U.S. tech stock rally. This comes as the SUI token beat the market with its nearly 20% jump. Plus, a Deutsche Bank survey finds that U.S. consumers are warming up to crypto, and the Bank of Russia wants the country's largest banks to support a digital ruble by July 2025.

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The latest price moves and insights with Jennifer Sanasie.

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CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie weighs in on how the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris has moved the crypto market. Plus, insights on other key indicators including the strength of the Japanese yen and safe-haven assets like gold.

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