Welcome back to The Mining Pod! This week we’re in studio talking about Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news! Colin Harper, our new Editor-in-Chief, walks us through important updates including mining revenue bottoming to historic lows, Iris Energy (IRENE) struggling after a failed hedging strategy this summer in Texas, a flopped narrative violation on China banning (or not banning, depending on the quality of your research) Bitcoin mining and Paraguay trying to bring more Bitcoin mining down south!
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:44 Difficulty report
06:13 Miner Mag: $150M into new ASIC design
09:43 Core Scientific Signs AI Contract
20:49 Iris Energy Power Usage Spike
24:43 Miners Holding BTC
30:27 Paraguay Mining
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