THE MINING POD: Bitcoin Mining News: Trump-Backed ABTC Goes Public, IREN Overpriced? And CORZ Deal Trouble

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On today’s roundup, we have an ASIC market update from Luxor, plus American Bitcoin’s debut on public markets and why one investor wants to put the freeze on the Core Scientific-CoreWeave deal. Get the headlines that matter, right when they hit the wire: Join our Telegram group for market moving news on top Bitcoin equities like $MSTR, $MARA, $RIOT, $CLSK, and more: https://t.me/blockspacenews Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin and Will with Luxor’s ASIC Trading Desk Senior Account Manager Sarah Tang about the ASIC market landscape, including how tariffs are impacting pricing, demand, and futures orders, plus the most popular ASIC models currently. For news, they cover American Bitcoin’s volatile Nasdaq debut, JonesResearch pumping the brakes on its IREN rating, and Core Scientific’s largest active investors imploring others to vote no on the CoreWeave acquisition. Subscribe to our newsletter! **Notes:** 50 % tariff on Chinese rigs 22 % tariff on SE Asian rigs Difficulty target  for 1 ZH/s = 139.7 T hashes Hash price ≈ $53.8 /TH/day American Bitcoin surged to $13/share, fell to $6.38 Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:17 Difficulty Report by Luxor 04:33 American Bitcoin public listing 07:10 ASIC prices 17:10 Cleanspark 17:39 Jones Research downgrades IREN 22:50 Cry Corner: Two Seas Capital 👉CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin Miner! CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), America's Bitcoin Miner!®, is a market-leading, pure play Bitcoin miner with a proven track record of success. They own a fully self-operated portfolio of mining facilities across the U.S. powered by globally competitive energy prices. CleanSpark sits at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship to monetize low-cost, high reliability energy while securing the most important finite, global asset – Bitcoin. 👉 Luxor, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power! Get game-changing mining results with Luxor Firmware. Boost hashrate, cut energy costs, protect your hardware, and maximize mining profits with LuxOS. 👉 Colorado Air Filter, Leaders In Mining HVAC Solutions! Pick from 6 different filtration brands from MERV 8 pleats to HEPA filters. Get your mine in top shape before the heat and dust of this summer comes! Contact sales@coloradoairfilter.com 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!

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0:00.0	Tariffs have been a hot topic lately, as we all know. We're looking at nearly 58% on rigs from China and then 22% from countries like Indonesia and Malaysia. That puts a real premium on landed new gen machines right now. Most of the new gen sales were the usual suspects. So Bitmain's S-21 plus, a lot of Marco BT's M60 series, Canaan's A-15 pros.
0:23.1	You know, the M-60s are crazy.
0:25.3	They basically sell out the second they hit the market.
0:28.3	Our team has also moved a lot of the A2 seal miners, both hydro and the air cooled.
0:33.8	And yeah, so it was kind of a good mix, you know, of the top manufacturers in the ecosystem.
0:40.2	You ever get into your buddy's car and think, dude, how do you live like this?
0:44.3	There's half-eaten Taco Bell on the console, a pile of garbage and fast food cups and bags,
0:51.2	rumbling in the trunk, you look behind you under your seat and you're pretty sure
0:55.3	you saw something move, but you don't know what?
0:57.7	Well, how do you think your Bitcoin miner feels if you're not keeping on top of your
1:01.7	filtration game?
1:02.8	Y'all need to get on Colorado Air Filters.
1:06.0	Colorado Air Filters is a major supplier of air filtration systems for Bitcoin mining sites.
1:11.2	And they're currently running a summer sale in their inventory, so now is the time to act.
1:15.5	Whether you need HEPA filters, new shipments or installations for your containers, or your
1:20.8	large-scale mining facilities, retrofitted buildings, Colorado Air Filters has it all.
1:25.8	And units are ready to sell now.
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1:33.9	Again, that is Sales at Coloradoairfilter.com with code mining pod.
1:49.5	Hey, Will here at Blockspace Media. Did you know that we have individual feeds for all our shows?
1:55.0	If you're watching the Mining Pod, Bitcoin Season 2, or The Court Show, be sure to check out the individual feeds.
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