THE MINING POD: Bitcoin Mining Stock Prices Lose $20B, Bitdeer’s Data Center Fire, Auradine’s New Unit, Jim Cramer Yells at CRWV

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Bitcoin mining stock prices were aflame on Thursday, while Bitdeer was putting out fires of its own. Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter for market-making news as it hits the wire! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Will, Colin, and Matt don their butchers’ aprons to dissect Thursday’s market carnage, with some bitcoin miners down double digits on the day. We cover Bitdeer's electrical fire at a facility in Ohio, discuss Lava's controversial custody model changes, Stone Ridge/Nydig's oil and gas expansion, and for this week’s cry corner, Jim Cramer yells at CoreWeave’s CEO. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com **Notes:** • Mining stocks down 5-10% across the board today • Bitdeer down 46% on five-day chart • $20B wiped from mining market cap since October • Riot peaked at $70, started Liberation Day at $2 • Bitdeer fire destroyed two mining units in Ohio • 650B annual revenue by 2029 needed for 10% AI return Timestamps: 00:00 Start 04:19 Market crashing 08:35 Difficulty Report by Luxor 13:11 Bitdeer mining farm in Ohio burning 23:02 Lava goes centralized 31:26 Auradine's new unit announced 38:59 What's NYDIG up to? 42:23 Cry Corner: CORZ delay 👉CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin Miner! CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), America's Bitcoin Miner®, is a market-leading 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. Optimally monetizing low-cost, high reliability electricity positions them to prosper in an ever-changing world. 👉 FBOX, Cooling for Bitcoin Mining and the AI Data Center Transformation FBOX is the global leader in cooling system manufacturing, with the #1 shipment volume of bitcoin mining containers worldwide. Not only powering for the strongest hashrate, their technology also helps mining infrastructure transform into AI data centers. Backed by the largest production scale on earth, global deployment capability, and a full range of cooling solutions, they are shaping the future of compute. 👉 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. 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	Bitcoin mining is on fire with headlines this week, quite literally, actually, with one of them
0:04.9	as we go through earnings season as Bitcoin mining stocks sell off with the wider market.
0:10.8	You're listening to the mining pod brought to you by CleanSpark. On today's roundup,
0:14.3	we've got a packed docket. We are leading with a market update as mining stocks, tech stocks,
0:20.4	everything really is bleeding this week.
0:23.6	And we also jump into headline stories of how BitDeer's mining form in Ohio had an electrical
0:28.7	fire. We dissect that story and what damages we might see from that site and what it might cost
0:34.0	Bit Deer. We jump into a story that we published on block space this week on
0:38.1	lava, a Bitcoin backed lending service that did a little bit of a slide of hand or bait or switch
0:42.8	with its users, depending on how you look at it for its custodial model. We look at Oridine's
0:48.3	recent unit, Nidig gobbling up more oil and gas facilities or rather Stone Ridge. It's a parent company
0:56.3	doing that. And for this week's Cry Corner, core scientific delays at core weave facilities
1:03.2	throughout Texas and Oklahoma. More on that after a message from our sponsors. You're listening
1:09.0	to the mining pod. Guys, there is a serious problem right now in Bitcoin mining, and we need to talk about it.
1:14.5	You need to pay attention to this. Bitcoin miners are identifying as AI companies, and people
1:20.1	keep mis-sectoring them because they say, well, look, your infrastructure is clearly for Bitcoin
1:25.2	mining. What do you want me to do about it? I'm going to tell you what you need to do.
1:28.9	You need to call FBOX, the leading digital infrastructure company
1:33.4	with all-encompassing cooling solutions.
1:36.2	F-box designs industry-leading air, hydro, and emerging cooling systems
1:39.7	for Bitcoin mining and AI and HBC data centers.
1:42.6	I want to highlight that.
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