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Bitdeer’s Power Plant, Trump’s ETFs, Softbank’s $50m Cipher Bet, and Nebraska’s Mining Tax
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Colin, Will, and Matt are back at it this week with a packed docket of news. Bitdeer has acquired the rights for a $90 million, 101 MW natural gas power plant in Alberta in a bid to become even more vertically integrated, and Cipher cashes in on Project Stargate with a $50 million investment from Softbank. Plus, two cheers for taxation (but not actually): Russia has codified a tax code for bitcoin miners, and a Nebraska Senator introduces a bill for a $0.025 per kw excise tax on bitcoin miners. For our last news item, Trump wants to launch bitcoin ETFs, because memecoins just weren’t sophisticated enough. And for this week’s cry corner, why Ethereum is no longer deflationary and what a croissant can tell us about the future of ETH issuance (seriously).
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Timestamps
00:00 Start
02:21 Difficulty report
05:03 Bitdeer Power Plant
11:32 Softbank invests $50m in Cipher
16:18 Russian miners reporting & taxes
22:20 Nebraska rate hike
28:17 Bitcoin Plus ETF
32:20 Cry corner: uLTrA SOunD MooONeeY
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2025 Is the Year of the AI/HPC Miner w/ Kevin Dede
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For today’s Bitcoin Stock Show, Kevin Dede, a managing director of equity research at investment bank H.C. Wainwright, joins to discuss AI/HPC hybrid bitcoin miners vs. pure-play ones – specifically, which strategy Dede is bullish on for 2025 and beyond. We touch on what the $500 billion project Stargate means for bitcoin miner AI aspirations, what he thinks of Riot and Bitfarms evaluating their sites for an AI retrofit, which miners he favors in the AI race, and more.
Timestamps
00:00 Start
02:40 AI vs pure play miners
06:30 Constraints of Mining & network effects
08:55 Hashrate growthrate per year
09:50 Predicted hashrate growth
11:09 Project Stargate
15:54 Infrastructure vs computes plays
22:11 Investor perception
23:07 Riot pause
28:15 Is it too late to HPC convert?
31:18 Core Scientific
39:28 Favorite miner pivoting to AI
43:57 Does AI push miners out of USA?
49:47 Bitdeer's HPC pipeline
54:28 Tiny Texas town
56:51 Hive in Paraguay
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Ohio: Bitcoin Mining's Hidden Gem
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Andrew Burchwell from the Ohio Blockchain Council joins us to discuss Bitcoin mining in Ohio. From groundbreaking state
legislation and strategic reserve bills to the challenges with utility tariffs, Andrew shares insights on building Bitcoin-friendly policy at the state level. He also dives into Ohio's energy future, the role of natural gas and nuclear power, and how Bitcoin mining fits into the state's industrial development plans.
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Notes:
• Ohio Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Bill
• Energy Policy Transformation
• Utility Tariff Challenges
• State-Level Bitcoin Advocacy
• Trump Administration Impact
• Education & University Programs
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:37 Andrew bio
05:29 Ohio Blockchain Counsel
08:58 Mining & legislators
12:15 Miners in Ohio
14:00 North American Blockchain Assoc
16:42 Trump & Regulations
21:22 Ohio Strategic Bitcoin reserve
23:32 Current state of BTC lobbying
27:35 What topics to focus on?
29:51 BTC & anti-state sentiment
35:56 How to get involved
38:15 Electricity tariff
40:17 Pushback from utility providers
41:16 Unlikely allies
44:04 Degrowth policy
45:06 Energy policy in Ohio
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Hive’s Paraguay Acquisition, BTC Miner ETF, Hashrate for Charity, and DeepSeek
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Colin and Matt are back for this week’s news roundup. They touch on Hive’s $85 million, 200 MW acquisition of a Yguazu, Paraguay bitcoin mine from Bitfarms. Plus, Grayscale launches a bitcoin miner ETF, a home-mining device wins a $330,000 bitcoin block for charity, and why the market freaked out over DeepSeek this week. And for this week’s cry corner, why you shouldn't trust Brad Garlinghouse’s call for crypto unity.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:57 Difficulty report
18:28 Grayscale miner ETF
33:26 Hashrate Fundraiser Mines Block
37:28 DeepSeek
43:36 Cry corner: Ripple CEO Very Sad
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s Bitcoin Stock Show, Colin welcomes Hive Executive Chairman Frank Holmes and CEO Aydin Kilic to discuss the company’s LOI to acquire Bitfarms’ 200 MW bitcoin mine in Yguazú, Paraguay for $85 million ($56 million for the site, $19 million for the PPA, and $10 million for construction contract). Once fully energized, the acquisition and Hive’s other, 100 MW site in Paraguay should catapult the company from 6 to 25 EH/s under management. During the conversation, Holmes and Aydin discuss why they are putting so many chips on Paraguay, the timeline for the 200 MW site’s completion, why they are outfitting it with Antminer S21 Hydros, and more.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:52 Deal process
07:48 Capital access & foreign mining sites
17:24 Tariffs on energy
24:15 Paraguay roll out phases
28:58 Cooling
32:02 Deal hand off
33:22 PPA
34:35 Regional power make up
39:24 Other Paraguay site?
40:08 2025 predictions
43:57 Energy as sovereign asset
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