THE MINING POD: Are You Ready for the Bitcoin Halving, Anon?
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Will, Charlie and Matt talk about the Bitcoin mining halving, Swan getting into the mining game and Core Scientific exiting Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Will and crew go through the top stories in Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining, including data on the upcoming Bitcoin halving, Swan announcing its 4.5 EH/s mining operation and Core Scientific re-listing on the Nasdaq. Charlie also gives us an overview of what’s happening in the Ordinals ecosystem this week!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to the Mining Pod. On today's show, we're doing a news roundup, Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news in 30 minutes. |
| 0:06.3 | A lot happened this week. A new Bitcoin miner popped up. There was a relisting on the NASDAQ, and there's a lot of stuff happening within hash rate, difficulty in the Ordinals ecosystem. |
| 0:15.8 | So we're covering all that in this episode right here. Before we get into the show, we want to thank our sponsor for |
| 0:22.5 | this show on the Coin Desk podcast network, CleanSpark America's Bitcoin Miner. You'll hear more |
| 0:28.0 | from CleanSpark about Midway through the episode. Okay, welcome back to the show for our lineup really quickly before I handed over to |
| 0:47.6 | Matt and Charlie to do a little intro for our new audience members. |
| 0:52.5 | We're going to talk about hash rate and difficulty and halving check. |
| 0:55.4 | Bitcoin happening is coming up around 100 days. It's the biggest event in Bitcoin every four years, |
| 1:00.8 | almost like a Bitcoin Christmas and Fourth of July mixed together. Then we'll go over and talk |
| 1:06.3 | about the explosion of things are happening in ordnals. We'll hand that over to Charlie to talk about |
| 1:10.1 | it. And lastly, we'll dig into some news in the Bitcoin mining landscape with core scientific |
| 1:14.5 | relisting and Swan announcing its Swan mining arm this morning. Okay, Charlie, I ended over to you |
| 1:21.0 | for a quick intro first. And Matt. Yo, I'm Charlie. I work for Luxor mining, Luxor Tech. |
| 1:28.5 | I'm on the ordinal hub side of the business. |
| 1:31.2 | I've been a miner myself, and I am very enthusiastic about Ordinals and this new emerging |
| 1:36.3 | era of Bitcoin block space. |
| 1:39.1 | I'm Matt. |
| 1:39.9 | I work on the research desk at CoinShares. |
| 1:42.4 | We do European financial products. |
| 1:45.8 | And I'm a big data junkie. |
| 1:47.8 | So hopefully bring some numbers to the show. |
| 1:50.4 | Matt's been in the show with me for, I think, coming up on 18 months. |
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