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What's next for Market Structure with Executive Director of the President's Council of Advisors for Digital Assets at the White House, Patrick Witt.

White House Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, Patrick Witt shares his confidence with CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie and Andy Baehr at Ripple Swell, that the market structure bill will be finalized by 2026. He emphasizes that President Trump wants the legislation "on his desk as soon as possible" and explains why Congress is working to pass the bill now—not in a crisis—to ensure clear, rational regulation that brings innovation back to the U.S.

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Andy Baehr.

IREN and Cipher both announced deals with hyperscalers this week as the AI race heats up among bitcoin miners.

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin and Matt talk about two massive hyperscaler deals that have upped the expectations for AI-pivots. Cipher Mining just secured a $5.5B, 15-year lease with Amazon Web Services for 300MW at their Bear Lake facility, while IREN signed a $9.7B, 5-year deal with Microsoft for 200MW in Texas. We also cover highlights from public miner Q3 earnings that have trickled through so far, a bitcoin miner lawsuit that involves OpenAI, and why Warren Buffett's Pacific Power’s loss with Amazon is a win for bitcoin miners. Plus: Will China win the AI race? Nvidia’s CEO thinks yes.

Notes: 

• Cipher signs $5.5B AWS deal for 300MW facility

• IREN inks $9.7B Microsoft cloud compute agreement

• Hash price crashes to $40 per petahash per day

• Bitcoin retraced from $126K to $101K support

• Cipher announces 1GW data center JV project

• Pacific Power fails to deliver Amazon capacity

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:00 Difficulty Report by Luxor

05:05 Cipher Amazon deal

08:02 IREN Microsoft deal

13:56 Cleanspark Ad

14:25 Q3 earnings update

14:38 RIOT

14:54 MARA

15:34 HUT 8

16:08 CIPHER

18:23 CORZ workers comp lawsuit

21:08 China winning AI race?

26:31 Cry Corner: Buffett can’t MW

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