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
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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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