THE MINING POD: ASIC Prices, Russia Restrictions, Alaska Gas Mining, $4.6B Mining Stock Shorts, Bye Bye Gary

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🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Colin, Charlie, and Matt are back with this week’s biggest Bitcoin mining headlines. To start, the trio dives into this week’s Mining Pod newsletter to discuss revival of the ASIC miner market. Then, they provide an update on incipient restrictions of Bitcoin mining in Russia in areas with power shortages. They also cover a novel story onHicorp tapping the largest gas reserve in the US with a bitcoin mining pilot in Alaska, yet more news on AI-pivots from bitcoin miners, and the $4.6 billion in open shorts against Bitcoin miners. Finally, for this week’s cry corner, Bitcoin and crypto professionals, pedestrians, and obsessives rejoice at the resignation of Gary Gensler. Timestamps: CHAPTERS 00:00 Start 02:22 Difficulty update 06:31 ASIC prices rebound 13:03 Russia restricts mining in certain areas 19:50 Hilcorp natgas mining in Alaska 26:01 Miners moving to AI 34:12 $4.6bn short squeeze 36:23 Cry Corner: Gensler is gone, girl 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! 👉Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show! Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @AsILayHodling, @bc1matt - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	What's going on, y'all? Welcome back to the mining pod this week's News Roundup edition with
0:06.1	your boy Colin and your boy's Charlie and Matt. Gentlemen, how are we doing today?
0:11.8	Oh, I'm fantastic. Bitcoin currently is 98, maybe 99,000. So the time you're listening to this,
0:17.9	we will know whether it hit 100K in between this podcast and the dropping.
0:21.6	Yeah, we might do a little breaking news segment if we rip past 100K during this roundup.
0:29.5	But price aside, we've got a pretty stacked lineup for today's roundup.
0:36.3	We're going to be going over ASIC prices from the Mining
0:39.1	Pod Newsletter that we sent out this week. We're going to do an update on the Russian mining
0:44.8	restrictions for certain regions given energy shortfalls during this ensuing winter season.
0:52.2	A pretty cool story about Hillcourt, an oil and gas company piloting mining in Alaska,
0:58.1	an off-grid oil site mining pilot.
1:01.3	Pretty interesting.
1:02.4	We're going to go into an update on AI pivots from Bitcoin miners, a few that have slipped
1:07.5	through the crack in our coverage.
1:08.6	We're also going to be looking at the multi-billions of dollars worth of shorts open against mining stocks. And then for this week's
1:18.7	cry corner, a delicious update that Gary Gensler will be resigning on January 20th next year. But before we hop into it, a quick word from our
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1:45.8	Thanks for listening to The MiningPod. Want more? Subscribe to our main feed on Apple, Spotify,
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